Posted on 07/11/2013 2:48:07 PM PDT by Biggirl
This disicussion on Mark’s show is fantastic tonight.
LOL!
Hi, WELCOME!
I cannot imagine the 3 ring circus going on down in your home state.
This judge needs to be impeached.
I am sure the weekend will be even more of a circus. I am about 40 mins. from Sanford and not in a big city luckily. The local media down here helped stoke the fires withholding the facts of GZ’s injuries early on and making him look racist. Now they are acting shocked that the prosecution is doing so poorly.
This atty he has on is good and Mark works well with him, on-air.
Yes. The judge is so combative with the defense and wanted to start the trial before they were even ready. I felt sorry for them having to stay till 10 pm the other night. I saw her grab her broom and fly off after getting into it with West. Unbelievable.
It’s attorney Andrew McCarthy and they know each other well. McCarthy has prosecuted some terrorists, I believe. In any case, he’s excellent.
Yes. He is superb! He said there was no case from the start.
I’m betting $10 that an offer will come from one couple. Fingers crossed. Start packing!
Great “$995 Back-Up Option Package” on the VW, and nice gas filler door touch. Reminds me of the funny vid clip you posted of the cop peeling away the kid’s sticker after the accident.
I guess the bright side it gives Z more ammo in case he has to appeal.
I’ve heard Mark mention him before, but I don’t remember him being on the show. Maybe I missed that segment. He is good and Mark respects him; they are a good pair on-air.
Andy McCarthy should be a contributor on Fox News.
It isn’t good enough to say Zimmerman was foolish to follow Martin. It’s certainly not good enough to intuit that society has a biased perception of single black men. It’s not good enough to say Zimmerman wanted to be a hero. One has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman was not simply a fool, a grandstander or even a racist (which the prosecution has utterly failed to do, and indeed has left a gaping hole where evidence of racism was supposed to be in the journalistic narrative) but had such a general indifference to life as to exhibit an attitude, as a federal case cited by Andy puts it, akin to ”opening the door of the lions' cage in the zoo.”
The near impossibility of establishing this crime beyond a reasonable doubt was evident when the affidavit was first revealed. The allegations purportedly establishing depraved indifference were not true (as we’ve seen when witness after witness has blown up in the state’s case) and at any rate don’t make for depraved indifference. What’s worse, the prosecutor intentionally omitted known facts that are the essence of reasonable doubt, in fact making the charge itself ludicrous. Legal self-defense expert Andrew Branca has the definitive debunking of the affidavit and the trial disasters for the prosecution that should be read in full, but an excerpt is sufficient to show the “Grand Canyon” between what has been shown and what must be shown for a conviction:
That affidavit claimed that "Martin attempted to run home but was followed by Zimmerman". But this cannot be true, because if Martin had indeed run home it would have been impossible--based on the times and distances involved--for the older, clinically obese Zimmerman to catch up to him before he secured safety.
The affidavit claimed that "Zimmerman disregarded the police dispatcher['s alleged instruction to not follow] and continued to follow Martin". This also is known not to be true, because alleged instruction never occurred. The affidavit goes on to claim that "Zimmerman confronted Martin." Another untruth, as testified to this past week by Rachel Jeantel, who claims to have overheard, by cell phone, the brief confrontational speech between the two men.
Worst of all, however, is the fact that ALL of these foundational claims of the affidavit for probable cause were known to be untrue at the time . . .
** snip **
The jury, as we know from long and tragic experience, may convict anyway, but only if the jurors catch the vengeance fever and mimic the blithe disregard for facts and legal standards that has gripped most of the media.
These are the kind of TGO shows I really like, when we all learn something from Mark and his guest. Not so much from some seminar idiot callers who just piss-him-off, and he cuts them short.
know what ya mean...once he made one for me too I knelt down to kiss it and got my wallet pickpocketed
Excellent! How did you transcribe that so quickly?
enjoyed your posts this week BTW on the Z thread
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