Posted on 05/28/2013 8:15:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This past Thursday, George Zimmerman's attorneys released new evidence relevant to the upcoming trial of their client on a second-degree murder charge for the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
The Martin family attorneys say the evidence is irrelevant. They are wrong. It is damning. The text messages and photos from Martin's cell phone tell a story wildly at odds with the one the State of Florida and the media have been peddling for more than a year, but one altogether truer and sadder.
In the way of recap, in February 2012, Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, shot and killed the seventeen-year-old Martin.
Taking their cue from the Martin family's attorneys, Reuters ran the first national article on the shooting ten days after it happened. Zimmerman was a "loose cannon." He profiled Martin, stalked him, and shot him, disregarding police instructions. Martin, by contrast, was a "good kid." He had hoped to be a pilot. He was simply bringing the soon-to-be iconic iced tea and Skittles home to his "little brother."
This story was pure fable from the beginning, and the attorneys knew it. Even before going public, they moved to seal Martin's school records, and with good reason.
Consider this exchange between Martin and a female friend on November 21, three months before his death. After he told her he was "tired and sore" from a fight, she asked him why he fought. "Bae" is shorthand for "babe."
MARTIN: Cause man dat nigga snitched on me
FRIEND: Bae y you always fightinqq man, you got suspended?
MARTIN: Naw we thumped afta skool in a duckd off spot
FRIEND: Ohh, Well Damee
MARTIN: I lost da 1st round :( but won da 2nd nd 3rd . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
But it won’t be heard in the courtroom...
not anymore
Apparently, the judge agrees!!
I'm sure a lawyer will set me straight if I'm wrong here but even if the judge rules before the trial that this stuff can't be introduced as evidence my understanding of the law is that if the prosecutors,or prosecution witnesses,utter a single syllable about what a fine,gentle young man Saint Trayvon was that opens the door for the defense to prove otherwise...including by introducing stuff like this.
A just just ruled that Martin’s past history of fighting and drug use cannot be used in court. The fix is in. Let’s hope the appeals court is less biased.
It would seem, but I don’t know for sure.
If we observe that this subculture is dangerous or wasteful or abberant we will be called "racist" and marginalized or worse.
When will we directly confront this cancer that is wrecking lives and do something about it?
The judge doesn’t agree the it just doesn’t help the predetermined outcome the judge wants.
Who are allowed to say the word “nigga” and who can not spealk of the “n-word?”
It occurs to me that the Judge in this case is playing with fire... BIG TIME.
It’s not just this case with Zimmerman and Martin. No what it is is the Justice system on trial too. This time the justice system has allowed the dirty laundry to be aired in public, Oh perhaps not on TV, but in the New Media, the internet and the internet doesn’t really forget. It takes a major effort to scrub it of “anything’ for somewhere on some server, PC, or paper printout that information still remains available.
And the information is DAMNING! This case has devolved into a witch hunt for a suitable victim to satisfy the blood lusts of a certain political constituency.
We don’t have a justice system anymore, there is nothing just about it. It is a court system. We have been in probate court now over 2 years and I am shocked at the system.
The defense can use this evidence in a self defense case to rebut any inference by the prosecutor that the dead guy was of a peaceable and non-violent character. It is used to show that the dead guy was in fact the initial aggressor.
The prosecutor just has to raise the inference of peaceful character in their case in chief. It could be as little as a one of Martin’s family members blurting out “Trayvon was a good boy!” I think it will be difficult for them to keep this door closed. Not impossible, but very difficult. Zimmerman’s attorney is going to do his best to pry that door open and then run through like a Heisman Trophy winner.
Keep in mind that the evidence that then becomes relevant is limited to evidence showing a propensity for violence. The fight text is appropriate. There have been other posts indicating that Trayvon had photos of pot plants. That would not be relevant, and no, those photos are not relevant to show he was high on the occasion of his death. The toxicology results establish that, and evidence that Trayvon liked to get high on other occasions will not be admissible.
The above is based upon ~30 years experience as prosecutor, criminal defense attorney and judge.
When we are on our knees and our baby’s bellies are hungry...then watch what happens...I wan’t to be dead and gone by that time....Good post BTW
Whya ask the question when you know the answer?
It’s sad to say but THE FOREIGNER reached his political position the same way as MARTIN skated through the system. HIDING THE DECLINE leads to nothing but NO GOOD.
Yeah, maybe this applies here--and I hope Martin's character does come up as compared to Z's--these disclosure may be a strategy to also undermine any civil suit that comes upregardless of the criminal case. Why else are Martin's mother & father and Crump even pursuing this? The basis is not a conviction or retribution. IMHO the real basis of the whole thing is Crump playing them like a pipe organ through the $$ in their eyes. Like my son always says, "Dad, just follow the money."
Revealing the true character of Trayvon in court is trumps against conviction or $$$$.
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