However, when it comes to dubious photo-ops, Moochelle has yet to top an earlier Democrat first lady's personal best.
Posted on 07/08/2013 11:10:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Appearing on CNN with Jake Tapper, a Florida-based criminal defense attorney was asked on Monday for her thoughts on the course of the day’s testimony in the trial of George Zimmerman for the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin. The attorney said that the start of the defense phase of the trial has been good for Zimmerman. She added that it is “impossible” not to see Zimmerman as a “good guy.”
“It seems as though there have been some big blows to the prosecution,” Tapper said of the course of the day’s testimony.
“This is a classic scorch and burn defense,” observed former O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden.....
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The truth is a powerful thing.
By “classic scorch and burn defense,” he meant the defense team is attacking every single point the prosecution has tried to make.
Well, there’s a good reason for that. Every single point the prosecution has tried to make, as far as I can see, is BS.
start the riots already
That is very lame of Chris Darden. The defense is doing their job, and quite well as far as one can tell.
The token Black prosecutor who helped FU the OJ slam dunk?
Crap, if he is on Zimmerman's side, Zim is really in trouble.
Yup, all cleaned, oiled and primed.
He doesn’t have to be a good guy to be innocent of the charge, but it’s obvious that he really is a person who genuinely tries to do good things. And it’s not that he has anything against the bad guys so much as that he feels compassion for their innocent victims.
The prosecution has managed to prove that yes, Zimmerman was being attacked, that he suffered injuries. They try to characterize these injuries as being superficial; however, the test of the law is ‘He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself’
Let's see.. Someone’s pinning you to the ground and beating on you. Pretty sure that you'd have a hard time finding people who'd take the position that if this happened them, that they wouldn't have a reasonable fear of great bodily harm.
But hey! The prosecution is trying to claim that Zimmerman instigated it, and therefore this test is meaningless. Whoops, pesky law there, it says that even if they invite and instigate this, that this same exact test still is to be used to justify the use of deadly force. ‘Such force is so great that the person reasonably believes that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that he or she has exhausted every reasonable means to escape such danger other than the use of force which is likely to cause death or great bodily harm to the assailant;’
Uh-oh. Is that guy pinning him to the ground? Didn't the prosecution present evidence of this?
So for the prosecution's theory to have the slightest bit of merit, Zimmerman must have instigated the confrontation, invited violence, AND once pinned to the ground had an easy ability to dislodge the attacker without risk of great bodily harm.
In any reasonable world, the prosecution would have rested, and the judge dismiss the charges with prejudice.
Unfortunately, it isn't a reasonable world, and the defense is presently engaging in providing evidence for the upcoming civil rights violation trial of Zimmerman. As if there is a conviction, the appeal would likely cite Florida stand your ground laws, present the evidence from the state as undisputed facts and the immunity will kick in (from civil lawsuits as well..)
If there are riots I hope someone can find a way to hold the press responsible for damages.
However, when it comes to dubious photo-ops, Moochelle has yet to top an earlier Democrat first lady's personal best.
She had one with Jim Jones too.....
There are photos of Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist “church” with Al Gore
Yes but second degree murder has to show HATRED and DEPRAVED mind. Therefore, it helps to show GZ isn’t some wild eyed cowboy wanna be cop trying to kill black teens.
The prosecution claims that a man who had already lost in a physical encounter (broken nose and injuries to the back of his head) against a drugged-out high school football player with MMA training should not have been concerned about his ability to escape without serious bodily harm. That has always struck me as an impossible position to justify.
“By “classic scorch and burn defense,” he meant the defense team is attacking every single point the prosecution has tried to make.”
As far as I’m cencerned, the only way to make that term fit would be to put the parents of Trayvon behind bars or make them pay Zimmerman for raising a thug.
I wouldn’t go that far. Headline News runs a crap show on the trial every night. They have a little mock-up of the scene, a bigger fake jury than they need, a half dozen murder attorneys shouting over each other, the whole works. The finale every day is a “jury” vote on whatever “the big question” of the day was, and a vote by the attorneys on whether it was a better day for the prosecution or the defense.
I usually flip right past it, but last night I decided to give it a shot. They showed a tally of the attorneys’ votes throughout the trial — they have found more often than not that the prosecution “won” the day, which as we all know isn’t remotely possible. And last night’s “jury” voted 10-2 that it was *not* George screaming.
So put Headline News down as still wanting to find George guilty. I think it’s ideology-driven bias for a number of reasons — the usual lies are STILL repeated virtually daily on HLN as they show every picture of 12-year-old TM, for example. But it might be as simple as knowing that any operation that employs Nancy Grace as a guiding light on court cases cannot possibly be interested in giving a suspect fair treatment.
In any reasonable world, the prosecution would have rested, and the judge dismiss the charges with prejudice.
There is a case of some relevance to this. A first degree murder conviction was overturned. The appeals court ruled that the Judge erred in not acting as the 'thirteenth juror."
I know something about jury nullification. This responsibility of the presiding judge in a criminal case is all new to me
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“George Zimmerman should be given a Presidential Citation Award”..... “and sit next to Michelle at the 2014 State of the Union Address - would be a great improvement.”.......
First, I agree with your first statement (Geo getting a Pres. Citation). Thus far, he has helped the CCW carry issue in a BIG way.
Second, Sitting next to Mooooooooooochelle would, in many ways, be worse than going through all the BS. He certainly doesn’t look anything like odumbo’s son.
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