Although Shellie Zimmerman has changed her story regarding her 911 call yesterday and announced she would not press charges, the story isn’t over.
As is customary with domestic abuse incidents, police/DA can file charges if the evidence warrants as much and is not dependent on a victim pressing charges. See Rihanna and Nicole Brown Simpson as high profile reference points.
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Police in Lake Mary Florida are expected to decide quickly whether to charge George Zimmerman, or his wife, Shellie, with domestic battery, police spokesman Zach Hudson told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.
Officials could also decide to not charge either member of the estranged couple, he said.
“This is definitely not over,” Hudson said. “Essentially, we are determining whether we charge on domestic battery” which he said carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail.
At a later televised news conference, Hudson told reporters that officials were also examining images recorded by Shellie on an iPad to help in the investigation. “We live in a video world, we live in an electronics age, and an iPad was being used to record the events.”
Full story HERE.