Posted on 07/02/2013 5:16:14 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Today, July 2nd, is DAY #17 (of 4th week) State of Florida V. George Zimmerman case.
Today Detective Chris Serino will be back on the stand. [Yesterday ended] on the stand with Chris Serino, who was the lead investigator for the Sanford Police Department on the Trayyvon Martin shooting.
Defense counsel Mark O’Mara led cross-examination with his usual consummate skill, obtaining responses from this witness–remember, the State’s witness–that all but completely guts the State’s charge in this case.
Among the key revelations so far: Zimmerman was always completely cooperative, open, and straightforward with all the police investigators over many weeks of multiple interviews, both in person at the police station and phone. The sense given is that Zimmerman demonstrated endless patience. (continue reading summary)
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Well, Zimmerman was not bright in how he handled his interraction with police. That much is true. But there is a thing called “being in shock” which could interfere with one’s normal ability to reason.
And this is during the state' case! They'll sound like Al Gore at a debate when the defense starts their case!
Witness admits he’s not positive at what point GZ told him he re-holstered. Not problematic imo.
How does she know what the jurors were taken note of in the first place?
If you have time, could you address why an author’s testimony about a book he wrote documenting George Zimmerman’s account of the Trayvon Martin shooting would not be hearsay? Note that the author is a very close personal friend of Zimmerman and a former police officer.
I’ve speculated that it could the following exception:
d) a writing about an event made close to the time it occurred, which may be used during trial to refresh a witness’s memory about the event;
If you don’t have time or don’t care to give an opinion, no big deal - as always. It’s just a curiosity on my part.
WFTV is saying the state did not get much to go on from this witness compared to what O’Mara got.
The first witnesses that I would call if the defense is the Zimmerman’s so that they can then get back into the courtroom,
another Bernie overreach
There is enough blood in the brain for conscious activity to occur for a couple of minutes after the blood stops flowing. In the days of the French Revolution, executioners would pick of the heads of the victims of the guillotine and see them still trying to speak.
I’ve been in neighborhoods where all units of a community were numbered consecutively, but even then knowing the street name gets you there faster
I do think that the jury is a bunch of no nothing low info types , so controlling what they get to know can be very effective in controlling the direction their conclusion will take.
Im sorry but this isn’t a daily chat thread for lonely people who don’t have somoene at home to talk with about dinner or the weather or making huge space consuming posts for some joke. Some of us are trying to talk about what’s happening in the trial today. I mean there are actual witnesses currently on the stand. If you wanna post BS wait until after they go to lunch or are dismissed for the day. The thread was already hijacked yesterday by nonsense.
That’s right.
But I personally don’t believe the female jurors on this jury would poll that way if they answered the question.
A different make up of a jury might.
Btw, for those that RIDICUOUSLY AND REPEATEDLY berated me yesterday when I said I was following some tweets yesterday about the trial ...because they dare couldnt be right
DO NOT GO HERE
but for others that want a breakdown of what is being said
You can check this out.
https://twitter.com/LawSelfDefense
Are you an attorney? That is in no way an antagonistic question. LL and you are on my SCOTUS ping list. I sometimes ask LL for an attorney’s explanation. So I’m hoping you are an attorney and can provide answers to questions occassionally. :)
Plus, Zimmerman felt he did nothing wrong at all. He called the police who were on their way. He was heading back to his vehicle and was sucker punched.
People speak freely to LE when they don’t believe they have anything to hide or not in any legal jeopardy. His cooperation resulted in him not being charged with any crime.... until the Jesse & Al show came to town.
Now we have this show trial.
In my opinion.... The Jury should hear the ‘opinion’ of a witness, but chalk it up to ‘speculation’.
However, if all the witnesses have the same ‘opinion’ and it agrees with the defendant’s repeated statements to police, then it is ‘evidence’.
Good example of how to put it to the police.
“I think they were talking about burglary tools:”
Of course they were! Poor joke on my part. Just that when I hear “Slim Jims” I think of the snack first.
Never mind. I had you confused with Squantos. Sorry about that.
(Courtesy ping to Squantos.)
HEADS UP: WFTV said they have developing news about a motion filed by the state regarding defense Atty. West and a pic of his daughters. They will talk about this later in their news broadcast.
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