I can't speak for SoCal Pubbie but I have nary a clue. What is the difference and what has happened in that regard in the Zimmerman trial?
Posted on 07/12/2013 9:26:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Injustice: There are biased judges, and then there's Debra Nelson, who's presided over what can only be called a kangaroo court in the George Zimmerman trial.
The bias of Nelson, Florida Circuit Court judge and a lifelong Democrat, in favor of the prosecution and its efforts to railroad Zimmerman as a racist murderer has been palpable throughout the case. Her actions, which have actively aided the state, could poison jurors and factor into future litigation.
Her shameful rulings and behavior, therefore, are worth cataloging, and include:
• Suppressing exculpatory evidence recovered from the (double-password-protected) cell-phone of Trayvon Martin that reveal deleted texts of the 17-year-old bragging about street-fighting with friends and relatives and photos showing him brandishing guns, gangsta-style. This evidence supports Zimmerman's claim he feared Martin and shot in self-defense.
• Disallowing Martin's criminal background, including arrests by Miami-Dade school district police for drugs, theft, graffiti and other delinquent behavior. (Martin, in fact, had been suspended from school the week he jumped Zimmerman inside his gated townhouse complex, after police found stolen jewelry and burglary tools inside his backpack.)
• Excluding any testimony from audio experts who could definitively ID Zimmerman's voice screaming for help on 911 calls as Martin bashed his head against a concrete sidewalk.
• Allowing, conversely, the last-minute request of plainly desperate prosecutors to have jurors consider an alternative lesser charge of manslaughter to try to secure some kind of conviction, any kind of punishment, in the complete absence of a sound murder case.
• Never sanctioning the prosecution despite Zimmerman's lawyers justifiably filing no fewer than six formal complaints against the state for withholding exculpatory and other evidence from them in violation of discovery rules.
• Yet repeatedly overruling — at times even reprimanding — Zimmerman's lawyers when they objected to the underhanded tactics....
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Grievance Industry will blame white prosecutors, most likely.
LOL!!
You need better friends
“She may not be retained but she will not be overruled on anything in the Florida Appellate system..”
You do know she’s already been overturned by an appeals courts in this case, right?
“Can’t the prosecution appeal the verdict if the trial is shown to be flawed?”
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Once a jury finds you NOT guilty there is no appeal for the prosecution. Think of the O.J. trial, if he was not proven guilty no one has EVER been proven guilty in the history of the world but a jury said he was not guilty so that was the end of the criminal proceeding. The fact that it was a bad jury verdict is so obvious that a civil trial resulted in a verdict against O.J., people said that it was because the standard of proof is lower in a civil trial but in reality it was because the verdict of not guilty in the criminal trial was simply absurd, as absurd as a verdict of guilty would be in the trial of George Zimmerman.
The strategy of the New American Fascist Police State is to drain the defendant/victim's resources till they're easy meat.
Every mistrial is to their advantage, because the rest of the peasants are picking up the tab for the blank checks written by the persecutors.
You do understand the distinction between an interlocutory appeal and an appeal of the case in chief right?
I can't speak for SoCal Pubbie but I have nary a clue. What is the difference and what has happened in that regard in the Zimmerman trial?
The Fifth circuit routinely overturns Nelson. Her reputation precedes her. This case is rife with reversable error.
The Defense wanted to depose the Martin family attorney. The judge ruled for the State and refused to allow it, the Defense took an interlocutory appeal and the Appeals court allowed it.
Interlocutory appeals are taken before the case has been decided, they usually involve discretionary matter such as this.
Many here assume bias as it is commonly understood is the same thing as judicial bias. It is not.
What appears to be bias to the average person in this case does not rise anywhere close to the standard of judicial bias that could be grounds for an appeal.
Manslaughter instruction MUST be given, not even the judge has discretion.
That the voice experts were precluded from scream ID is a good thing. Screams can't be ID'd by the experts.
They missed that the JOA was denied, even though the argument for granting it is strong.
Well, I guess if he’s convicted, we’ll see what happens and then revisit the matter down the road.
No I don't........
Yo Sauce, what was he actually convicted for?
Are you saying he beat the murder rap, but was guilty of something else?
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