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“.
So the state gets the last word???
A teenager is dead through no fault of his own — first of a long list of lies to come.
It is brutal, never gave it a thought. If something hits it, twice the damage.
that’s always how it works, state gives their closing argument, than the defense, than the prosecution gets the last and final word to the jury
GENNERALLY in criminal cases the longer the jury is out the more doubts they have.
GENERALLY
Here it is seems reversed, the longer they are out the more they seem to be removing doubts to find an excuse.
I am betting the longer the go the more likely the lesser charge.
Bernie the bastard starts his argument with a blatant lie. Typical treachery
‘His assumptions were wrong”-—how does Bernie know that GZimmerman wouldn’t have died from head beatings??
Subtle. Oh, so subtle!
He was beating a man to death...who's fault is that?
If the jury gets the case Friday and can deliberate, we could have it earlier. IIWM I would let the weekend pass but the jury won’t like it.
What picture did he just show —
It means 2nd degree murder requires a depraved mind. Manslaughter doesn’t. The most important thing about what he said is that if they do not charge him with 2nd degree murder due to self defense, they also cannot charge him with manslaughter because it was self defense!
A man "acted" upon those assumptions...Trayvon dead.
Nor putting it ALL on defendant.
let’s face it we are expecting nothing less than a lynch mob and there is no justice. we can’t survive with leaders who are racists, cowards, and leftists.
how many DIED, over 50 so that Rodney King could die a rich drug addict.
>> But had no idea she was actually ON the legal team.
Oh yeah — she IS the “special prosecutor” appointed to prosecute the case. She, in turn, hand picked her “best” assistant DA Bernie de la Rionda to actually shovel the coal into the locomotive boiler.
Which is an interesting point to ponder. Moe de la Riondo, Larry Guy, and Curly Mantei are the *best* of what she has to pick from. What does that say about the rest of the DAs in her region? Truly disturbing.
“...smashed shards of glass and vodka all over kitchen...”
Whoops...expensive bottle of good vodka gone just when you needed a drink!
Best definition I’ve seen: Someone who fires a gun into a crowd of people has a depraved mind.
GZ looks like he’s ready to pass out. Pray for God to give him strength.
just tell her I killed him..just matter of fact
ARGH....
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