Posted on 07/11/2013 4:59:59 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Today, July 11th, is DAY #23 (of 5th week) State of Florida V. George Zimmerman case.
Yesterday the defense rested its case. A legal analysis via Professor Jacobson HERE.
From my perspective the entire case ended, as expected, early in the day yesterday when Judge Nelson gave George Zimmerman his personal Platinum Express DCA Acquittal Card. The ruling, and more importantly the legal determination she used on the ruling, regarding the Trayvon Martin phone evidence was an immediate Nuclear DCA option. Nelson essentially ruled against admissibility based on ”authentication”. She could have kept it out under other legal reasoning, but no, she chose the one without the slightest chance of being upheld by a District Court of Appeals. IMHO this was intentional and aligns itself with the way she has ruled during the pre-trial discovery phase, and during the case itself. She’s a rigid ideologue, but she’s not stupid – this was intentional.
By ruling the phone records (texts and pics from Trayvon) cannot be “authenticated” to have originated by the specific personage of Trayvon Martin just gave the dismissal of the case to George Zimmerman with a bow on it.
As it was carefully explained to me, the phone is like a bucket. The data inside the phone is like marbles in a bucket. Some marbles from calls, others from pictures, others from texts, etc. The State brought the bucket into court – and validated the bucket contents with their own witness from the phone company – Both the State and the defense then began arguing their case around the phone call marbles in the bucket – Primarily with Rachel Jeantel. But no-one challenged the bucket itself. The State authenticated the bucket and the content of the bucket during the introduction.
The defense picks up the same bucket the state hands them, and now begins to use the contents – texts and pictures – and then Nelson rules the bucket itself cannot be authenticated. It doesn’t work that way.
If the state authenticates evidence, it cannot be divided and only authentic when the state holds it, but not the defense. Flawed logic – ABSOLUTELY positioned to give such a prejudicial outcome, the appeal would result in dismissal, not retrial. Nelson gave the case away to George Zimmerman.
She could have ruled on relevance, admissibility, or other factors – but she chose the one destined to fail, “authentication”. She gave it away.
In other news, people are catching on to the Eric Holder, Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Community Relations Service – being the actual puppeteers behind the entire construct of the false case. To them we say “welcome to the party pal“.
OUT
—Comical in the sense of comedy being tragedy.—
Pathos
I can’t imagine how George feels with all these charges going back and forth that will shape his life so drastically.
Good question. Did you notice she was talking as the prosecutor was talking to the judge? This should be interesting.
Is the charging document evidence?
True,looks like we are ready to roll.
It’s her prosecution team.
West is earning his money today. The judge is not touching the child abuse charge. I wonder if the judge listened to Rush Limbaugh today. LOL!!!!
So she has been calling the shots all along.
Hallelujah. Other prosecution "language" is suffering too it seems. Sorry for lack of precision for those following without being able to see or hear court hearings.
Also, it may be that the divorce papers say something...that he wanted to stay with whom????...that says...not exactly a baby.
In other words, she had to take it out or risk getting trapped.
Yes, I realize that. Thank you
I did. Is she quarterbacking this damn thing or what?
ButMOM is in house just in case the shtf ;)
I didn’t realize that Corey was part of the prosecution team. Persecution team, check. But had no idea she was actually ON the legal team. Stunning.
Wait till you see what I wrote...I’m guessing why...
Does anyone have a concise timeline of what happened that night, with Zimmermans call, etc. I’m in an argument with my brother on facebook, and I’d like to have the timeline of what happened. Zimmerman didn’t call 911, did he? I thought he called the dispatch, and that he started heading back to his truck AFTER he was told he didn’t need to follow Trayvon, not that he followed anyways AFTER he was told not to. Any help would be appreciated. I’d like to have the actual FACTS on my side as I’m getting fed up with the idiocy on FB.
No.
Thank you, LORD
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