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“.
Yeah, I think he bored himself to sleep, and didn't know where he was when he woke back up about 3 seconds later.
BS pronounces Bernies closing as poor.
Who? Bernie?
;)
I read somewhere that police found a Slim Jim car tool near the scene but the defense couldn't enter as evidence. Is this true?
What I meant was, maybe he should have JUST told Zimmerman to F-— Off, instead of sucker punching him and then slamming his head against the concrete numerous times.
WTF TV. Poor grade. Stating again juror WILL NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT......not good.
Bill Schaeffer from WFTV “THIS IS NOT A GOOD CLOSING STATEMENT FOR THE PROSECUTION. NOT AT ALL. THAT JUROR B29 WOULD NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT IS VERY TELLING. YOU DO NOT ASK QUESTIONS IN A CLOSING STATEMENT. YOU STATE YOUR CASE.”
I'm not trying to save an attacker that just broke my nose and bashed my head against concrete. I would shoot him again rather than try CPR.
Whenever Blanca says “rumored” he’s making a joke? He previously joked that Mantei and Guy were going to put BLDR out of his misery. :)
Prosecutor: They rolled around and they fought
No, you cannot change the truth Mr. Prosecutor,, and the Jury knows you’re LYING!
You really don’t want to come across insulting the intelligence of the jury. You also don’t want to come across as a guy trying to sell a refrigerator to an eskimo, which is how this guy apparently sounds. The eskimos are not stupid.
It's because all government has is lies..
Just watch the defense take this apart...
Andrew Branca, LOSD @LawSelfDefense
#zimmermantrial Rumored: O’Mara to open closing argument with, “So, jurors, do I even need to say anything? Don’t want to waste your time.”
that is what I mean about Branca..he is just posting nonsense..kind of a joke about what they are doing..not what they are really doing
BDLR says something about a lion out there. Don’t know whether he means George or Trayvon.
OOPS. A break. Apparently the Jury went to sleep until Bernie screamed and now they gotta go to the bathroom.
Dog people are conservative, too. I love my puppy. Lots of conservatives have and adore their dogs.
I’m assuming you’re projecting what violence I might have inflicted on the family I mistakenly saw when I entered their home . . . and they were as startled as me.
I was sixteen.
Had Zimmerman stayed put and waited for the cops, he would not have had suffered anything. Wrong or not . . . the kid he killed would still be alive.
LOL!!
Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. It's not proven he did not heed the dispatcher. Even so, it doesn't matter.
Even if he didn't heed the dispatcher, following somebody in and of itself while on the phone to the police is not criminal conduct. It's not illegal. There is no proof that George Zimmerman initiated any confrontation or attacked Martin, which is the major key in a manslaughter case. There is proof that Martin decked Zimmerman and was slamming his head against the concrete, and possibly going after Z's gun.
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