Posted on 07/11/2013 11:48:41 AM PDT by Vendome
So I tune into to the Zimmerman trial and watching the closing arguments I can't help but think this whole thing is contrived.
The prosecutor, in his closing, is presenting possibilities of theories, multiple, and asking the jury to choose from some weird buffet of the circumstances.
When you want to make your case you are specific in your accusation and theory of what exactly happened.
This is the weirdest closing I have ever seen.
When you close, in prosecuting, you claim very specifically what happened not some bland, rambling, theory.
He is presenting a variety of scenarios by inference.
There is no way the jury can come back on this and convict of the original charge.
"I don't know. You make up your mind"
"This is one possibility but, this also another possibility. We weren't there but, you decide".
"We have witnesses that place the larger person on top of the smaller person. But, we weren't there you decide".
Weird, weird, weird.
What a joke that closing argument is.
FMCDH(BITS)
Well, I’d say, you either make sure your insurance is up to date and leave town,
or hole up with plenty of boom sticks and ammo.
And isn’t that the whole problem with this case?
Witness after witness and each prosecutor making the case for reasonable doubt.
Fugly for its intent, inhumane for allowing a boil to fester this long without some kind of antibiotic and a severe lancing.
I feel sorry for the prosecutor. He’s just doing his job, as ordered and the whole thing is a put up.
I won’t be surprised to see him in AA in a few years.
And isn’t that the whole problem with this case?
Witness after witness and each prosecutor making the case for reasonable doubt.
Fugly for its intent, inhumane for allowing a boil to fester this long without some kind of antibiotic and a severe lancing.
I feel sorry for the prosecutor. He’s just doing his job, as ordered and the whole thing is a put up.
I won’t be surprised to see him in AA in a few years.
The assumption of this trial is that Trayvon Martin in the defendant, George Zimmerman is the prosecutor, and all the pro-Martin camp has to do is prove that there is reasonable doubt that Trayvon Martin was a bad actor in order to convict Zimmerman.
It's inside out and upside down.
I also was questioning the “you decide” angle. This is not Ripley’s Believe It or Not comic strip - it’s a real person’s life at stake. I hope the jury is savvy enough to see through this - but I doubt it.
He also jaywalked. It’s on an NSA camera somewhere.
And his car doesn’t pass emissions tests.
The prosecutor is not boring. He is an idiot. I like the candy comment.
The judge in that case is a most incompetent shill for the prosecution. She should be disbarred. If she could charge Zimmermann for being out after dark she would. After some of these high profile cases, one can assume that the Fl. judicial system needs an overhaul, but it won’t happen.
“I don't know. You make up your mind”
“This is one possibility but, this also another possibility. We weren't there but, you decide”.
Isn't that automatically “reasonable doubt”?
This is a classic "reasonable doubt" tactic - lawyers do it all the time. The prosecution is simply throwing out a whole bunch of implausible speculations in the hope that the collection of ideas as a whole might seem plausible. The total package of evidence clearly proves that George Zimmerman lawfully defended himself, and the prosecution is trying to introduce some doubt into that conclusion. Fortunately for Obama's side, federal pressure has flipped the trial, and Zimmerman's side is required to prove innocence beyond a reasonable doubt.
I pray it doesn't either, but if it does, shoot to kill! Any looters/rioters caught alive should get a public whipping with TV cameras looking on.
And isn’t that demonstrable of what is wrong in this prosecution?
He is making reasonable doubt arguments.
/s
LOL
Consider the Florida appellate court rulings during the Bush/Gore election dispute.
No, he is not doing his job. That is why this is getting worse by the day.
As the old saying goes “The teachers don’t teach, the managers don’t manage, and the bumbs are the only ones doing their job”.
He must be guilty of something or they look like fools. Can’t have that can we.
Maybe he feloniously double parked.
Regardless of the outcome this will not end for a long time and nothing good will come of this. IMHO.
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