Medical Report Details Zimmerman Injuries
Medical Report Details Zimmerman Injuries, The accused murderer had a broken nose, black eyes, and cuts after the shooting of Trayvon Martin.A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation.
Zimmerman faces a second degree murder charge for the Feb. 26 shooting that left the unarmed 17-year-old high school junior dead. Zimmerman has claimed self defense in what he described as a life and death struggle that Martin initiated by accosting him, punching him in the face, then repeatedly bashing his head into the pavement.
Also today, a trove of documents are being examined by lawyers for both the defense and prosecution as part of discovery in Zimmerman’s trial — including 67 CDs worth of documents, video of Martin on the night of the shooting, his autopsy report and videos of Zimmerman’s questioning by police.
Zimmerman’s three-page medical report is included in those documents that the defense could use as evidence.
Watch World News with Diane Sawyer for the latest on the Trayvon Martin shooting and the trial of George Zimmerman.
The morning after the shooting, on Feb. 27, Zimmerman sought treatment at the offices of a general physician at a family practice near Sanford, Fla. The doctor notes Zimmerman sought an appointment to get legal clearance to return to work.
The record shows that Zimmerman also suffered bruising in the upper lip and cheek and lower back pain. The two lacerations on the back of his head, one of them nearly an inch long, the other about a quarter-inch long, were first revealed in photos obtained exclusively by ABC News last month.
But the report also shows Zimmerman declined hospitalization the night of the shooting, and then declined the advice of his doctor to make a follow-up appointment with an ear nose and throat doctor.
In addition to his physical injuries, Zimmerman complained of stress and “occasional nausea when thinking about the violence.” But he was not diagnosed with a concussion. The doctor noted that it was “imperative” that Zimmerman “be seen with [sic] his psychologist for evaluation.”
According to the report, prior to the shooting Zimmerman had been prescribed Adderall and Temazepam, medications that can cause side effects such as agitation and mood swings, but in fewer than 10 percent of patients.
Schimel Husband Wife Race New York
Schimel Husband Wife Race New York, The political feud between a New York assemblywoman and her estranged husband is officially over. Republican Mark Schimel, who decided to challenge his wife, Democrat Michelle Schimel, for the assembly seat she has held for three terms, has officially dropped out of the race.
Mark Schimel emailed Frank Moroney, chairman of the North Hempstead Republican Committee on Long Island, late Monday evening to inform him of his withdrawal from the race.
“Since being nominated last Thursday, I have been inundated with calls from the media that focused on matters extraneous to the campaign and the issues facing our state,” Mark Schimel wrote in the email to Moroney that was provided to ABC News. ”It is clear to me that any effort to have an honest debate about lowering property taxes, improving our economy and making elected officials more responsive to taxpayers will be impossible given the media’s proclivity for sensationalizing the news.”
But Mark Schimel didn’t leave it at that. He proceeded to criticize Michelle Schimel, to whom he is still married, for her stance on the real property tax cap.
“It also seems that the Democrats are frightened by the fact that the taxpayers of the 16th AD will learn that the incumbent Assembly member voted against the real property tax cap, which makes it harder for senior citizens to afford to remain in North Hempstead and New York State and discourages young adults from moving here!”
Michelle Schimel welcomed her husband’s decision to leave the race, calling his entry a “distraction” from matters of importance to her constituents. (ABC News)
George W. Bush: ‘I’m For Mitt Romney’
George W. Bush: ‘I’m For Mitt Romney’, Mitt Romney has the support of George W. Bush.
“I’m for Mitt Romney,” Bush told ABC News this morning as the doors of an elevator closed on him, after he gave a speech on human rights a block from his old home – the White House.
Bush’s endorsement isn’t a surprise, given that Romney is virtually the Republican Party’s nominee. But the 43rd president has been absent from the 2012 campaign and hasn’t made any public comments showing his support for Romney.
Romney did get the formal backing of Bush’s parents, President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush, in March.
People who worked in the Bush administration say they doubt the former president will be campaigning for Romney this year. Even in his post-presidential life, Bush still gets a lot of the blame for the poor economy, according to polls, though he has become more popular since leaving office.
Nancy Pelosi: The Democrats’ $43-million Weapon
Nancy Pelosi: The Democrats’ $43-million Weapon, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., became the most powerful woman in American history when she was sworn in as Speaker of the House in 2007. She lost that power four years later and is now hell-bent on winning it back. Spinners and Winners caught up with Pelosi on her early morning power walk by the Potomac River.
The 72-year-old grandmother shows no signs of slowing down as she briskly walks along the paved paths of Georgetown’s waterfront park and sums up her goal for the year with these words: “Just win, baby.”
“They have endless money, secret, undisclosed, special interest money that they pour into elections,” a slightly out-of-breath Pelosi said of Republican opponents. “But I think we can offset it. We have out-raised them, out-redistricted them, out-recruited them.”
Pelosi has been a veritable fundraising machine, raising more than $43 million for Democrats in this election cycle and attending nearly 500 fundraisers. The Democratic leader has put her heart and soul into winning back the house for Democrats, but she insists she is motivated by more than winning back the Speaker’s gavel.
Mexican Presidential Race
Mexican Presidential Race, With less than three months left in the Mexican presidential race, Enrique Peña Nieto maintains a wide lead in the polls. The May 6 debate—the first of two between the four candidates—was seen as a chance for his top rival and candidate for the ruling National Action Party (PAN) Josefina Vázquez Mota to catch up. But ADN Politico’s poll of polls shows Peña Nieto of the Institucional Revolutionary Party (PRI) still enjoying a major lead over Vázquez Mota; he polls at 48 percent while she has trended down to 25 percent. The previously third-place Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate for the leftist coalition headed by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), has gained since the debate to tie with Vázquez Mota. Gabriel Quadri de la Torre of the New Alliance may have benefited the most from the debates; he’s gone from polling around 1 percent to now polling 4.7 percent in some surveys. The next debate takes place June 10, and the presidential election comes just after on July 1.
The telegenic Enrique Peña Nieto has emerged as the PRI’s best hope to return to the presidency following two PAN S-EX-enios (six-year presidential terms). Peña Nieto was already in the public’s eye before he announced his candidacy on September 19, 2011. While governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011, in an event likened to a royal wedding, he married a soap opera star from the influential Televisa network, which has longstanding ties to his PRI. His campaign coordinator and closest counsel is Luis Videgaray Caso, a former federal deputy and the State of Mexico’s finance secretary during Peña Nieto’s gubernatorial term.
Josefina Vázquez Mota, candidate for Felipe Calderón’s PAN, was a journalist and business consultant before entering the public sector as part of the Vicente Fox administration, serving as secretary of social development. Vázquez Mota then became education secretary in President Felipe Calderón’s cabinet. In April 2009, she left the secretariat to become a federal deputy for the PAN. She served in various leadership positions for the PAN bloc during her congressional tenure.
Oops: Obama Forgets Something Big
Oops: Obama Forgets Something Big, It seems the president’s Air Force One goof wasn’t his only “me me me” moment this week.Politics: it’s not a game, exactly. But there are rules, and when you break them you are running…politically foul!!!
Touching down in Ohio, President Obama emerged from Air Force One, remembered his wave, and charged forward…without Mrs. Obama. Realizing he’d dropped the ball, the President scrambled back for the recovery and emerged again with the full roster.
FLAG! 5 yards, not illegal formation…ME-legal formation. Is there so much ME ME ME he forgets HER HER HER? In the week before Mother’s Day, forgetting the mother of your children could be a costly penalty.
This is a president who occasionally does catch a case of the “me’s.” In his explanation for support of g*y marriage to Robin Roberts, the president said: “When I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-S-EX- relationships, who are raising kids together; when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained.”
My behalf? Flag 5 yards, equipment violation…the uniform says USA, not “Obama.”
Mitt Romney was seeing blitz after fielding questions from a reporter in Colorado on g*y marriage, immigration, and medical marijuana. Fearing a sack, Romney pushes back asking: “Don’t you have anything of significance to ask?”
Anything of significance?!?!
FLAG! 5 yards: Illegal shift. Mr. Romney might want to talk about the economy but according to the playbook, the reporter asks the questions and the candidate gives the answers.