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“.
This argument is so disjointed one would have to conclude he is just arguing in the fly with zero prep. He has not attempted to prove his own case. Instead he has spent his entire time trying to disprove the defense case.
It is because he has no case.
What is really awful is that he keeps arguing that Trayvon was an innocent angel, but he withheld the evidence that he was a gang banger wannabe and then got the judge to preclude any of that evidence from coming in.
He keeps harping on GZ’s inconsistencies and calling him a liar, but BLDR is lying to the jury by deliberately telling the jury things he knows are untrue.
Why would you assume Z needed protection? He didn't assume it.
GZ’s extreme cooperation with the LEO speaks volumes.
Thanks, Bernie, for pointing that out to the jury again.
golden rule violation?
at least two are trained with knowledge to NEVER point like that.
This close is pathetic. The state is doing themselves no favora repplaying this tape.
LOL
Cute.
What facts.
Giggle.
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John Guy is going to have to spend some time with the doll to bring this theory home to this jury. Discrepancies don’t prove facts.
this guy is the Top Prosecutor in his county
Go back go DU.
“Read all the thousands of documents you want, if Zimmerman had waited for the cops, outcome might have been quite different.”
do you even reason bro? lots of things could have changed the outcome. zimmerman could have stopped to pick up arby’s. martin could have stopped to pet a stray dog on the way home. the list is endless.
zimmerman leaving his truck is not a crime. martin returning to attack zimmerman as he returned to his truck is. that action is what precipitated the outcome. after martin loses zimmerman why didn’t he just go home....oh wait he did. then he came back.
That’s pretty impressive — double figures already.
I don’t think Guy will beat that.
Id be rolling my eyes the entire time and squirming in my chair trying to get the hell out of there..this prosecutor won’t shut up because he wants a hung jury, he knows he won’t get a conviction so he’s trying to convince one juror to side with him
But wait....”Both MIGHT be alive”...What a line...
And evey time he accuses Z of lying during interview there are words echoing in their ears........I thought he was truthful......STRICKEN
your 1st sentence was my thought from hello Jurors....he mailed it in from jump...there is no prep here
break about up
Is Guy going after MOM.
Jury reponds to Guy.
That is bad news.
Hmmm...sprinkler? So, now a sprinkler caused the injuries when he stumbled.
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