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“.
Corrupt prosecutor attempting as hard as he can to make “f’n punk” sound racial...
Oops...... 2 ah. 1 fn punk
Yep fkn punk is is much worse than creepy ass cracker
BLDR keeps lowering his voice and walking away from the microphone,
Not that anyone is trying to listen anyway.
TM was minding his own business?
By wandering around on the grass looking into peoples’ windows?
Right.
Yup. . .the would claim you were just finishing ‘m off.
As of 1401 EST:
"A**Hole": 2
"F***ing Punks":2
I think that's the whole reason this trial has been rushed: To coincide with the NAALCP convention. This is engineered for maximum destruction. //
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That's all I can imagine, given the pacing... yet another thing that defies all logic, common sense, and decency (including that it has cut short Z defense). God help us all.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3041730/posts
Here’s a good piece by Andy McCarthy about the presiding judge- in case you can’t stand listning to Bernie.
You bet...But that was blocked by government.
Zimmerman killed the kid.
All Zimmerman had to do was heed the dispatcher’s declaration: Don’t follow him. Stay were you are. Wait for police.
Be it murder . . . manslaughter . . . Zimmerman killed the kid.
Had Zimmerman heeded the dispatcher, the kid, no matter how suspicious he appeared . . . would still be alive and talking to liberal radio/television.
But . . . since Zimmerman ignored instructions . . . kid is dead and Zimmerman is kept off the stand in trial.
All that Zimmerman had to do was stay put and wait for the police.
3 ah. 2. Fn punk
a can of soda in a sox is an old prison weapon ... you can make short work of someone that way
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For example, Jurors, ask yourselves why nobody testified to what a fine young man TM was? Why did no teacher, preacher or friends talk about the amazing things TM had planned for his future. Could it be because no one could actually truthfully say that? Why did his mother send him to live with his dad? Why was his father's first phone call after finding TM missing to the Juvenile Detention center? What was in that toxicology report that the prosecution wouldn't let you see?
These are things the prosecution doesn't want you to think about. TM wasn't a choir boy. GZ rightly saw him as a suspect.
What could happen to MOM if he said, the court didn't want you to know about TM's thuggish lifestyle as shown by his texts/
The only one I've seen was the older white woman with the unkempt hair that kept falling down her face/eyes.
*drink*
keep posting things about the jurors!!!
E6 was one of two jurors the State sought unsuccessfully to strike from the jury. She is a white mother with adolescent children, 11- and 13-years-old, and again was a jury first presented to the court on the second day of jury selection. She had lived in Seminole county since 1999.
If I’m on the jury, I’m sick and tired of hearing “these @ssholes, they always get away” and “f*#!ing punks” being shouted at me when I know it wasn’t shouted at the victim.
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