Posted on 07/09/2013 5:52:13 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Immediately following the close of the State’s case on Friday, Mark O’Mara, the lawyer leading George Zimmerman’s defense team, stood before Judge Nelson and made his oral motion for a judgment of acquittal for his client (a parallel written motion was also submitted to the Court).
c George Zimmerman defense counsel Mark O’Mara
The motion was well-reasoned, and strongly founded on Florida’s case law. It was also doomed to fail before a Judge who has consistently denied reasonable defense motions out of hand, while rubber-stamping motions by the State that bear not the slightest relevancy to the facts of this case.
Details matter in the law, and in any case the quick-and-short reporting of Nelson’s denial of the motion for a judgment of acquittal has already been widely reported (by us, among others). Here, we take a different approach, delving into the details of O’Mara’s motion. Part of this detail includes the full-length decisions of almost every court case cited by O’Mara in support of his motion.
Most of these court cases are gratifyingly brief and written in a style easily accessible to non-lawyers. Accordingly, throughout this piece the reader may hyperlink to the full-text of the relevant court decision back at the Law of Self Defense blog (where they join many hundreds of other self-defense related court decisions from all 50 states).
In today’s post I focus on O’Mara’s oral motion to Judge Nelson (“The Good”).
My next post on this subject will cover Mr. Mantei’s duplicitous response to the motion (“The Bad”), as well as O’Mara’s response in turn...continued
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Never saw an acquittal at a hanging party.
I think the PROSECUTION can save the place from riots by dropping all charges, and blaming their own stupid witnesses for changing their stories
I have forgotten, what did happen to Nifong? Did NC give him some kind of award or what?
If so many liberals moved from PA and NY to FL, and FL became liberal, why didn't PA and NY turn more conservative? Have there been polls showing how much or how little support Zimmerman has in FL?
Well it should have but it would have made the riots start sooner so the judge decided to put it off until the not guilty verdict. Let the jurors take the heat.
On the upside, should Zimmerman be acquitted, he will never be tried for this again because of this motion. If it had been granted, the state could have attempted to bring charges against him in the future.
There will be another one when the defense rests so Nelson will get a Mulligan.
When westerns went off the air, the American people turned even more liberal and flocked to the mob mentality.
Disbarred and imprisoned, I thought.
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