Do you think the Yahoo reporter is just making this all up?
What news service do you trust?
Yes, I think Yahoo reporters often spin stories, outright lie, and select sources to promulgate an editorial line dictated by its very leftist news director. (Headlines like “Job Losses Indicate Strong Recovery” give away the game). I had no desire to fault you for posting from Yahoo — we should always read opinions contrary to our own.
In this instance, I have read and compared hundreds of news stories from diverse sources (none of which I trust by themselves), 1000’s of comments, watched clips of the judge in action, read motions, deposition, and this judge’s rulings, and read the 5th DCA’s unanimous destruction of her on two recent appeals. The notion that Judge Nelson is “tough but fair” is simply not plausible, at least not in big-league cases. Her rulings are high-handed, biased towards the prosecution, and illogical; the recent Frye hearings indicate an inability to manage her court effectively. Feel free to search the many articles on Free Republic and elsewhere about the Martin/Zimmerman case — in the GZ case, she is so unimpressive that the Yahoo piece struck me as the very opposite of reality.