Posted on 07/11/2013 4:59:59 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Today, July 11th, is DAY #23 (of 5th week) State of Florida V. George Zimmerman case.
Yesterday the defense rested its case. A legal analysis via Professor Jacobson HERE.
From my perspective the entire case ended, as expected, early in the day yesterday when Judge Nelson gave George Zimmerman his personal Platinum Express DCA Acquittal Card. The ruling, and more importantly the legal determination she used on the ruling, regarding the Trayvon Martin phone evidence was an immediate Nuclear DCA option. Nelson essentially ruled against admissibility based on ”authentication”. She could have kept it out under other legal reasoning, but no, she chose the one without the slightest chance of being upheld by a District Court of Appeals. IMHO this was intentional and aligns itself with the way she has ruled during the pre-trial discovery phase, and during the case itself. She’s a rigid ideologue, but she’s not stupid – this was intentional.
By ruling the phone records (texts and pics from Trayvon) cannot be “authenticated” to have originated by the specific personage of Trayvon Martin just gave the dismissal of the case to George Zimmerman with a bow on it.
As it was carefully explained to me, the phone is like a bucket. The data inside the phone is like marbles in a bucket. Some marbles from calls, others from pictures, others from texts, etc. The State brought the bucket into court – and validated the bucket contents with their own witness from the phone company – Both the State and the defense then began arguing their case around the phone call marbles in the bucket – Primarily with Rachel Jeantel. But no-one challenged the bucket itself. The State authenticated the bucket and the content of the bucket during the introduction.
The defense picks up the same bucket the state hands them, and now begins to use the contents – texts and pictures – and then Nelson rules the bucket itself cannot be authenticated. It doesn’t work that way.
If the state authenticates evidence, it cannot be divided and only authentic when the state holds it, but not the defense. Flawed logic – ABSOLUTELY positioned to give such a prejudicial outcome, the appeal would result in dismissal, not retrial. Nelson gave the case away to George Zimmerman.
She could have ruled on relevance, admissibility, or other factors – but she chose the one destined to fail, “authentication”. She gave it away.
In other news, people are catching on to the Eric Holder, Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Community Relations Service – being the actual puppeteers behind the entire construct of the false case. To them we say “welcome to the party pal“.
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“WOW...3rd degree denied!”
Double wow!
Now Mantei argues AFTER the ruling, which got West a tongue lashing. Remember?
The prosecution is going to have a party with their closing argument will all these added elements on jury instructions, if all these rulings go their way. It is going to be hard to watch, like kids in a candy shop.
How many charges are there then??
Judge just denied the child abuse charge.
They are sequestered. They may not know their lives are in danger
WTF is Corey doing???
LOLOL!!
Now Mantei argues AFTER the ruling, which got West a tongue lashing. Remember?
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Yep, it’s comical how biased she is. Comical in the sense of comedy being tragedy.
And third degree?
Now Mantei argues AFTER the ruling, which got West a tongue lashing. Remember?”
She’s hoping for a three way with Corey and Mantei?
What the hell? Is that Corey sitting behind Mantei giving HIM instructions? Or am I seeing things?
MoM back...
Corey is advising as we type
Judge is throwing out the CHILDSLAUGHTER charge.
She did this to protect hrself- it was so absurd the appelate court would have laughed..
WTF?
What the hell? Is that Corey sitting behind Mantei giving HIM instructions? Or am I seeing things?
Yep, there she is, the big bloated freak. She puts shame all over this trial.
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