Laz, I hereby sentence you to hit it!
How did she try to force him to testify?
What do you mean “she”? All I see is some dude with a wig on...
She was practically on her hands and knees begging him to testify..I dont know why Zimmerman said that he wasn’t sure yet, I think it would have made things easier for him had he said “No your honor, Ive invoked my right not to testify” and thats it..but she kept on twisting the knife, asking him this way and that way..I think the judge knows what most people know, this is gonna be a not guilty verdict..such a waste of taxpayer money in this idiotic trial, just to please the race baiters, who are going to riot anyway
You know, with Helen Thomas off the scene, she’d might be good for those times when you need a shock photo.
Sadly, I don’t believe that. The Defense did a great job but I still think the all girl jury will convict.
Man to man, smoke a Roi-Tan.
I thought the jury was not the when she asked zimmy iknow they were not there the send and final time she asked, but not certain about the first time she grilled zimmy
Did anyone see her condescending smirk when she told the defense lawyer “Ok your objection is over ruled then?
Never underestimate the utter cluelessness of a Florida jury (or voter).
Her honor has no idea of how the jury will decide or fail to decide.
No man’s life, liberty or property are safe as long as court is in session.
This was my initial thought as well, but things have changed in recent years. Judges now almost have to ask defendants who are not testifying if they want to testify; because not doing so is just asking for an appeal.
The background is that a lot of public defenders are so overwhelmed with caseload, that they are desperate for their defendants to bow out of the case quickly. A lot of pressure for them to plea bargain or plead guilty. And especially for them *not* to testify, because the prosecution will tear them to ribbons, even if they don’t have to, and burn up a lot of time doing so.
Then, as soon as the defendant is convicted they appeal on the grounds that they were pressured by their attorney.
I don’t think that the judge’s inquiry into whether Zimmerman will testify tells us what is going on in the jurors’ minds. You just never know with these verdicts (see Casey Anthony).
defense is now trying to get some defense witness testimonies thrown out. John Donnely.
it’s all they’ve got.
They never disproved George couldn’t not have acted in a legal way, that there’s no way he could have done this in self-defense. They have not destroyed reasonable doubt of use of self-defense.
Also it is not illegal for anyone to follow anyone else. Private investigators, spouses following another spouse, stranger following stranger. It’s not illegal to follow people around. Liberal activists follow people they like and don’t like around. Papparazi follow people they like and don’t like around. Private agents, government agents, all follow people around. For a whole variety of reasons.
From what I understand, She Asked GZ well before that question was supposed to be asked. The defense still had witnesses and was not quite ready to rest.
This was done well before George had the chance to talk to his attorneys about that phase. What she did was reprehensible and will also play into any appeal if the verdict is a conviction.
I heard commentators on tv last night stating that the court would ask the defendant directly if he would testify, they stated the law now requires this because it is the defendants’ personal right and not his attorney’s.
However, even if that is true, I’m not sure of her asking this in front of the jury, and then questioning Zimmerman on how much time he needed to prepare his answer.
I thought Zimmerman’s answer that “No” he had not yet decided to testify or not, was a win for the defense. It appeared to the jury that he may have wanted to testify.
A charge against Zimmerman is the result of the president personally inserting himself in the issue.
This has all the earmarks of another Obama failure so the judge will have to navigate Obama’s corrupted water for him. Obama has a history of rewarding those who help enable his corruption.
The role of a judge should be to ensure, as much as possible, that trials proceed in a just way, such that the guilty receive the just penalty for their transgressions, and the innocent are acquitted and their names are thereby cleared.
This bitch has done her best to try and destroy an innocent man whose life has already forever been stained and turned upside down.
-PJ