By Howard Portnoy | July 1, 2013 | 12:41 PM EDT

Talk about your dirty lawyer tricks! That’s what MSNBC’s Karen Finney and the network social critic Goldie Taylor seemed to think they were did last Friday.

The two were taking the temperature of the George Zimmerman murder trial when Taylor offered up the possibility that the defendant altered his appearance — most notably by putting on pounds — in a ploy to appear less ominous to the jury:

By Tom Blumer | March 26, 2012 | 7:20 PM EDT

A search on Travyvon Martin's name (not in quotes) at the Associated Press's main national site at 7 p.m. returned 37 items.

A search on "Trayvon Martin bounty" (also not in quotes) returned one item. Here is the relevant section of the related story by Jennifer Kay and Errin Haines, way down in Paragraphs 13 and 14: