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“.
Strike total, but certainly retain the keyword "Idiot" for denying defense motion to dismiss.
unfortunatly true. it will be circuit family, circuit civil, or circuit probate.
If the seal isnt broken the neighbor may ask the store to give them another as they can get a credit from the distributor,in many areas,yours??
Yes!!!! No 3rd degree!!
But do y’all crazy a%% crackers have the guts to do it? ............................................ LOL, yeah, we’re all ready to burn our homes down! Like, really? Then again one could go and loot Walmart or Best Buy and take home a 62” TV? I’d stay away from stores owned by Asians tho, they’ll shoot ya.
With 1st degree goose slaughter
The dead guy was the assailant was he not?
I ditto that personal experience. My Judge was then rotated out to Criminal in which two cases I know of what should have been a slam dunk for guilty was derailed.
This was a pure self defense case.
All the talk about SYG was just that.
With Paypal I use a credit card which is tracked. Even the payments to the credit card are probably tracked as is my bank account. I just prefer not to have a fee taken out of my $10.00 by Paypal.
“It would be quite unhealthy for me to subject myself to the lies and filth.”
I might do the same....not watch.
I just keep thinking of karma. They are evil. I don’t know how they can go through life thinking that it’s okay to condemn an innocent man. Breaks my heart.
I thought ole Bernie would rent some hair for his big day
Here we go, this will be the most painful of the trial.
The judge, DOJ and 0 share the same respect for Justice.
>> She’s hoping for a three way with Corey and Mantei?
Now there’s a visual from the bowels of Hell itself. Thanks!
My brother and I usually agree on most things. He just REALLY has a problem with guns. He says every time he’s seen someone who brandishes a gun, it’s usually some little pr*ck that eggs on bigger guys until they get pissed, and then they bring out their gun. Not right, but a-holes like that ARE out there, and he thinks GZ was one of those out of shape pr*cks.
So, he thinks Z brandished the gun so M cold cocked him? That’s pretty funny, actually.
Same here. I’ll just follow on here until MOM gets up. (I do the same thing when BO Comes on TV.)
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