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“.
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Mark O’Mara is not in court .. West is doing the arguing this morning... Interesting move.
"Well I`m glad you have already decided the outcome of the case, based on all of the defense filings. Why don`t we just all move to Nazi, Germany, where we don`t have a justice system and a jury of one`s peers?"
He’s working on closing arguments.
And so it begins...
Lord, have mercy.
Don’t know about the premature issue but I do know she was absolutely right in asking him.
There is Florida case law on this. It’s to keep the Defendant from claiming ineffective counsel.
They don’t mandate the Judge ask but they HIGHLY suggest that the Judge inquires.
Then how did he "cause it" you idiot?!
Already?!?!?!
Nancy Grace almost busts an artery every night. She had Zimmerman tried and convicted the minute he was charged.
She’s the biggest waste of air time on national TV.
It could also be that this Judge is “as dumb as a bucket of marbles”. She didn’t hand out anything. She is doing everything possible to bias the case against the Defense.Any mistake(s) made in GZ’s favor were entirely accidental.
aggravated assault -maximum 5 years.
Judge Nelson going to give the maximum
MOM should be here for this..
That’s what I was thinking!
Is it time to break out the popcorn machine?
OMG..how many times is WTFTV going to say...this could be his last 36, 35, 34 hours of freedom
When you’re in charge of the railroad, job one is to make the schedule.
With the Judge included you get THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY
It’s almost as if The Obama Administration ‘insiders’ wanted the trial, but don’t really care about the outcome.
They have riots planned, the crews have been hired, transportation, food, t-shirts and signs all paid for and ready to go.
The Zimmerman trial is just being used to KEY off of for the planned rioting, no matter the verdict.
If one does not provide CHAOS, one cannot offer to SOLVE the problem in exchange for accepting the yoke of Socialism and giving most of your money to those who created the problem.
If the Zimmerman case had never gotten to trial, the Obama Administration (including Sharpton/Jackson/Crump) would just have found something else.
It’s really just a matter of ‘timing’. George, like many of us, are just pawns who are sacrificed during the coup.
No. I am deliberately minimizing my participation here.
At this point, anything is possible.
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