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Day 23 (Week #5) Zimmerman Trial – Closing Statements
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | July 11, 2013 | Sundance

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“.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackkk; florida; georgezimmerman; livezimmermantrial; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: snarkytart

It probably rings well with at least a couple of the jurors.


True, but the others can set them straight.


1,601 posted on 07/11/2013 11:35:50 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Judge and Prosecutor claiming that can’t be true because they don’t know what ‘common sense’ means.

How can this be true when so much of law is based on the idea of what "a reasonable person would do?"

A "reasonable person" is only such because of the exercise of "common sense."

-PJ

1,602 posted on 07/11/2013 11:36:04 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Not only that, but during the closing of the prosecution’s case against OJ, when Marcia Clark was talking about Ron Goldman being stabbed to death a black female juror cried. Later she said she was just thinking about the recent murder of her nephew. And obviously she was not pro-prosecution. You just never know.


1,603 posted on 07/11/2013 11:36:21 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: UCANSEE2

He’s doing a great job of pointing out all of the holes and problems with THEIR defense.


1,604 posted on 07/11/2013 11:36:33 AM PDT by txmissy
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To: Political Junkie Too

I’m gonna go outside, have a cigar and read a good book while it’s gently raining... this crap is just too much.


1,605 posted on 07/11/2013 11:36:59 AM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: txrangerette

I would be more curious as to where they are looking and which are taking notes.


1,606 posted on 07/11/2013 11:36:59 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: cuban leaf

Defense will parade photos.....like you cheesy freak parading vulgarity to make your points.


1,607 posted on 07/11/2013 11:37:10 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: longtermmemmory

There are very few fat homosexual men. No so for lesbians.


1,608 posted on 07/11/2013 11:37:32 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: All

Can someone get me up to date? I know the Pros. is giving closing arguments now. Has the Defense already done this? If so, how did it go?


1,609 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:00 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: RummyChick

// Kathi Belich, WFTV@KBelichWFTV
Juror E 40 is leaning her head on her hand. #Zimmermanon9 //

Now Rush talking about how the jurors are not making eye contact w/him... “he’s scaring them” (little inside Rush joke re: how 24 yo women are afraid of Rush/loud strong talking men)


1,610 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:00 AM PDT by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: SE Mom
I have no idea what he’s talking about.

Same with Bernie.

1,611 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:13 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Toespi

Did you hear of any emotions from the jury with Donnelly testified?


1,612 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:14 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: longtermmemmory

E6 a note taker has not taken any notes. Several others are.


1,613 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:19 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: cuban leaf

Wow — Rachel Jeantel, Surdyka, and Bajador are Bernie’s sources of what happened.


1,614 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:22 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: All

Rush Limbaugh is talking about Bernie right now. “This guy’s filled with rage! What is it we are told people don’t like? They don’t like yelling. This guy is acting like he is LIVID about everything over this. They are not showing the jurors but I can tell you that the gallery there..there are some who are not even looking at him anymore. Some are yawning. Some looking down. The younger women may be scared to death listening to what he is saying.”


1,615 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:36 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: lilypad

Only GZ could testify to that, otherwise it would be hearsay and not allowed. GZ chose not to testify.


1,616 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:42 AM PDT by USNA74
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To: All

1,617 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:44 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: snarkytart

Not that I know if.


1,618 posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:48 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: SeaHawkFan

Diana Tennis @TennisLaw

Question marks are not disproving case! Questions = reasonable doubt- Pick a theory or u cannot win!! Is he throwing this?!


1,619 posted on 07/11/2013 11:39:09 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: snarkytart

Exactly..and remember how with OJ the jury requested the limo driver testimony be read back and the talking heads concluded that meant they were going to come back with a guilty verdict because the limo driver’s testimony was the most compelling, yeah turns out that is not what the jurors were thinking at all..heck when the verdict was coming down they were doing “Black power” salutes to OJ


1,620 posted on 07/11/2013 11:39:36 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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