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“.
Well MOM said in his presser he was proud to “preserve the memory of Trayvon” by not introducing anything personal about Martin. I lost respect for him after that. Reminded me he is just another defense lawyer - he got great exposure for this and now wants to kiss and make up with the criminal base he usually has to defend. After all, he is not the one who will rot in jail and die there.
“It’s because of these threats that I put away my regular carry gun (a .380) in exchange for more firepower, a .45 ACP Glock. With a couple of full magazines.”
Smart man. My 9 mm Springfield is close by. Getting the Bennelli 12 gauge out tonight.
“THAT IS NOT WHAT SHE SAID. PLEASE STOP PERPETRATING THIS LIE! She said “We don’t need you to do that.”
What did “do that” mean?
Geez...getting anal are you? No need to get angy and accusing me of lying. I’m on GZ’s side.
Some words are hard to pin down. Bill Clinton thought harass was two words, for example.
That was amateur hour.
a worthless tool is what we watched
You’d think because it was raining you would be trotting (fast walking). I can see Tray’s slow walk as provoking “who’s this guy”.
Good! Now MOM can give them a nice closing tomorrow morning and probably afternoon.
Expert is saying Bernie all but failed in closing...
This closing argument was short on facts... Per expert...
“verdict that is just”
code for prosecutors who want the lesser included. Give us SOMETHING.
I could always take Ash over murraysmom.
????
How about not good at all.
Really?? I thought the judge ruled that the defense had to do the rebuttal today and then the prosecutor got the last word in tomorrow?
If that’s the case (defense then rebuttal so both are fresh for the jury) then it’s a good thing.
I may hear some of the opening, but I have a day trip planned for tomorrow. I will miss you all. Wish I could hear the defense closing live, but will catch up on line before crashing tomorrow night. I hope the not guilty verdict is in before I even get home.
WTH?!?! Are you SERIOUS?? I mean she gets ditzy but a B plus?
OMG
“Police Jargon
vs
Jenteel Jargon
so gutter slang is ok, but legal slang is not?”
That would be retarted, sir! :)
// i bet those jurors are gonna be po’d when they find out about all the text messages they didn’t get to see.
Are those posted anywhere that you know of? //
WTF TV BS. Long on emotion, short on facts.
I think an “overloaded gun” is one with a full magazine *and* a round in the chamber.
The “Saint Trayvon” crowd, simultaneously, says that George Zimmerman somehow “broke” some law by getting out of his vehicle, or by “following” Trayvon Martin. Neither of which are crimes at all.
The “Saint Trayvon” crowed justifies VIOLENCE by Trayvon, when no crime was committed by Zimmerman, yet that same crowd insists that Zimmerman was prohibited to perform legal acts in his attempt to notify police about Trayvon Martin?
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