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George Zimmerman Judge Rejects Motion to Dismiss the Case
ABC News ^ | July 5, 2013 | SENI TIENABESO AND MATT GUTMAN

Posted on 07/05/2013 5:55:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

The prosecution rested their second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman today and his legal team immediately asked the judge throw out all charges, arguing that the state had failed to present evidence he murdered Trayvon Martin.

The judge swiftly rejected the argument, but not before both sides made emotional legal arguments that are usually reserved for summations at the end of a trial.

In an impassioned plea, Zimmerman's defense attorney Mark O'Mara stated that the state did not produce direct or circumstantial evidence that Zimmerman acted with "ill-will or spite," the Florida requirements for second degree murder.

"There is not a scintilla of evidence to support that," O'Mara said referring to the implication that Zimmerman acted out of "ill will and spite."

"He has the undeniable injuries that reference nothing other than an attack by Trayvon Martin," O'Mara said.

"You cannot look at that picture of my client's nose and say he wasn't beaten in the face," he said. O'Mara said the court would draw a similar conclusion by looking at the photos showing the back of Zimmerman's bloody head.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: florida; georgezimmerman; kangaroocourt; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t want an interfering judge,but one that ruled properly on a valid point of law would be nice.


41 posted on 07/05/2013 6:37:17 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Pretty good idea. Make sure the jury hasn’t forgotten what they said.


42 posted on 07/05/2013 6:41:35 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: ladyjane

Apparently there was also a step-mother somewhere along the way. I saw an article a few days back where the step-mother was complaining that after raising him for 14 years she wasn’t allowed to sit in the family pews up front at the memorial service.


43 posted on 07/05/2013 6:42:42 PM PDT by digitalbrownshirt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

His uncle made a great witness on the stand. Very credible.

George Zimmerman’s Uncle Testimony: That is George Screaming for Help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWQZKcTTmxU


44 posted on 07/05/2013 6:45:38 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The jury don’t really care what is said. They have a job to do and their families to protect. Their job is to return a verdict of guilty. All this talk of riots if Zimmerman is found not guilty is subtle reminders to them.


45 posted on 07/05/2013 6:49:38 PM PDT by sport
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To: KeyLargo

The best be could put on stand before the weekend


46 posted on 07/05/2013 6:51:08 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: DoughtyOne
"I heard my son screaming," Fulton replied. "I didn't hope for anything.

WTF are you talking about? Can't you read or comprehend any thing you read?

St. Travon was staying at his FATHER'S house. His mother was no where around.

She listened to the 911 tape after the fact.

I am so sick of half wits that can't read or won't read an article and then setting up straw men arguments that end up hijacking a thread and taking it off in another direction with the help of other half wits that can't or won't read.

Understand what you're talking about or STFUASD.

47 posted on 07/05/2013 6:52:45 PM PDT by metalurgist ( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
Whatever happened to the truth?

(I've long known that the Legal system is quite a distance from a Justice System.)

48 posted on 07/05/2013 6:55:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It's rare for a case to be dismissed, on the other hand the state's got nothing and the ditzy judge was their best witness always taking their side, at times she seemed like she was trying to correct the prosecutions stupid questions!
49 posted on 07/05/2013 6:55:39 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: DoughtyOne

St. Tray’s biological jomama cut him loose at age 2yr.


50 posted on 07/05/2013 6:56:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: metalurgist
Shouldn't you buy another "l"?

I say this while checking one of my (ancient) degrees.

51 posted on 07/05/2013 6:58:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: metalurgist
Shouldn't you buy another "l"?

I say this while checking one of my (ancient) degrees.

52 posted on 07/05/2013 6:58:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That decision could have been mailed it.

That puts to rest all the criticism that his defense team took about not filing for a pretrial immunity hearing.


53 posted on 07/05/2013 6:59:21 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Paladin2

“Whatever happened to the truth?”

It was determined in pre-trial hearings that all of the negative things about Traydmark would be ‘too prejudicial’.


54 posted on 07/05/2013 7:00:08 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Sybrina Fulton was in Miami, not Sanford, the night Martin died. Martin was staying at Brandy Green’s house, not Fulton’s.


55 posted on 07/05/2013 7:00:20 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: 1rudeboy

So are you saying that you could care less about your pet peeve?


56 posted on 07/05/2013 7:03:58 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: ErnBatavia

at my workplace years ago, we made up, “disirregardlessly”. :)


57 posted on 07/05/2013 7:06:12 PM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is exceedingly rare for judges to grant these motions. But if ever there was a case that warranted it, it was this one. The prosecution failed to make ~any~ sort of case that could lead any reasonable person to believe Zimmerman was guilty of Murder 2. For this to go to the jury to decide the facts of the case... what facts might those be? What facts are lying on the table at all? None that have any bearing on guilt. There’s nothing for the jury to decide, unless they come up with a whole new fact set that is neither alleged or in evidence.


58 posted on 07/05/2013 7:08:13 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: savedbygrace
Also, in what way does 'very' modify 'unintelligent'?

I wouldn't rate "unintelligent" as a superlative, since there are varying degrees of the condition. A person with an IQ of 70 might be said to be unintelligent, while one with an IQ of 50 could be said to be less unintelligent than one with an IQ of 70. The former, then, could be said to be unintelligent, while the latter could be said to be very unintelligent.

59 posted on 07/05/2013 7:10:51 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Ramius
It's her job to see to it that Zimmerman is convicted. If she could issue a directed verdict of conviction, she would.

At least I don't think she can, but I am not a lawyer and don't live in Florida.

60 posted on 07/05/2013 7:12:47 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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