{"id":1546,"date":"2012-04-03T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2012-04-03T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T15:40:27","slug":"state-attorney-accuses-trayvon-martin-family-of-outright-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/state-attorney-accuses-trayvon-martin-family-of-outright-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"State Attorney Accuses Trayvon Martin Family of &#8220;Outright Lies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Attorney Norm Wolfinger released a statement Monday in response to a letter delivered to the Justice Department by the Martin family that asserted the widely held belief that the decision not to arrest Zimmerman was a result of consultation between Wolfinger and Sanford police chief Bill Lee.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nState Attorney Norm Wolfinger Statement on Letter to Department of Justice<\/p>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE&#8211;April 2, 2011<\/p>\n<p>I am outraged by the outright lies contained in the letter by Benjamin Crump to Deputy Assistant\u00a0Attorney General Roy Austin dated April 2, 2012. I encourage the Justice Department to investigate and\u00a0document that no such meeting or communication occurred. I have been encouraging those spreading\u00a0the irresponsible rhetoric to stop and allow State Attorney Angela Corey to complete her work. Another\u00a0falsehood distributed to the media does nothing to forward that process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Wolfinger&#8217;s statement begs the question, who exactly did decide not to arrest Zimmerman?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Attorney Norm Wolfinger released a statement Monday in response to a letter delivered to the Justice Department by the Martin family that asserted the widely held belief that the decision not to arrest Zimmerman was a result of consultation between Wolfinger and Sanford police chief Bill Lee. &nbsp; State Attorney Norm Wolfinger Statement on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}