[colorado tanker]

The legal ground is that you can't call a witness to give an opinion about someone's credibility; it's the jury's job to assess credibility.

But that's really neither here nor there.

1. The move smacks of desperation and just highlights the unfavorable testimony.

2. The fact that the judge allowed a retroactive objection tells me the judge sees which way this trial is going and wants to protect the record against a possible mistrial.

[mrsmel]

Thanks. I’m no lawyer, nor have I played one on teevee.

[Steely Tom]

2. The fact that the judge allowed a retroactive objection tells me the judge sees which way this trial is going and wants to protect the record against a possible mistrial.

Yeah. Maybe they'll try to get a mistrial, announce they're going to reserve the right to re-try Z. They then wait till the dead of winter to announce that they've decided not to pursue a second prosecution.

They could be planning to do this to delay setting Z free until we're out of the summer months. Less rioting.

Except that there's no winter in Flori-duh.

[OldArmy52]

Why the objection to the obviously biased judge in an obvious political show trial?

Common practice in any totalitarian nation....Communist China, the old Soviet Union, Communist Vietnam, etc etc.

A corrupt and politically controlled judicial system is s.o.p. in any tin pot dictatorship where rule of law has been overthrown....USA for instance. Where Obama enforces only laws he likes and subverts the Constitution regularly.

Happily, the idiot RINO Repubs and the Dems will pass amnesty for about 30 million undocumented low income Democrat voters, so the Constitution can be safely buried under the yoke of Police State tyranny for maybe 100 years.