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“.
Two words
Train. Wreck.
Yeah, if you call doodling on the page 'taking notes'.
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I mean.... come on. When you are forced to sit somewhere and listen to someone drone on and on, and you have a pen and paper, what do you do ?
He just told the jury that little button on his hoodie could have made the sweatshirt come away from his body!
Actually, there is nothing new here....same arguments and theory he presented during testimony. Nothing behind this curtain.
Did he actually say that???Sometimes Branca puts stuff in there not said..
doesn’t seem like that would be right to impeach him in closing
Bernie — his hands there are under his body there so why isn’t his own blood on his own hands???
I don't care how George seemed to be acting just after the shooting, he was somewhat spaced out, still in a state of shock.
Kathi Belich, WFTV@KBelichWFTV
The state is showing photos of the scene and questioning #Zimmermanon9 ‘s claim to be looking for an address but no proof of following.
AXIS SHIFT
Maybe he did. Who Knows?
Andrew Branca, LOSD @LawSelfDefense
#zimmermantrial BDLR: “What’s the evidence mean? F’d if I know. YOU decide.”
I am concerned the cat lover is a bit “government come and save me” mentality with the comment about training.
I hope they are not all democrats.
If you had punched one of the people in the nose knocking them down, then jumped on them and began beating them mixed martial arts style and banged their head savagely against the floor ... you might not be here today.
Lol.
The more lies Bernie tells now, the more lies O’Mara can pour to in his closing argument.
Last word I heard was "Where did all he blood go? WHere did the defendants blood go?"
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Bill Sheaffer:
From Far and Away; IMO BDLR asking too many questions
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NO. Not at all true.
Watch the re-enactment video (again, if you need to).
TM jumped out at Z, attacked HIM. He had every option to go home -- and instead was following Z -- in the dark, on a rainy, cold night.
Z, btw, as we hear in the call to the nonemergency number, had been asked by the dispatcher at a certain point "WHERE is he now?" -and- "What is the address?" We hear Z's straightforward responses explaining why he was walking, going back also to the re-enactment video.
Assuming it is St. Augustine grass it is a big wet sponge, several inches thick.
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