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“.
Bernie is addressing the black community, the message is, see we did what you wanted.
A can of liquid can bash a skull in, more easily than a fist can.
Good article on the admissibility of text msgs here:
Reversible Error in Zimmerman Before We Even Get a Verdict?
PJ Media
Andrew C. McCarthy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3041730/posts
I wonder if the defense can file an appeal before the closing arguments are finished. If so, I wonder if some legal scholars would be sending in draft appeals to the defense team as I type.
As of 1405 EST:
"A**Hole": 4
"F***ing Punks":3
I hope someone has taken on the duty of counting
f’in punk
Now if this was Perry Mason....someone in the audience would jump up and chastise the jerk.
Dispatcher’s testimony refutes this claim. He never told Z to stay put or don’t follow.
thanks..you can be the official counter
I bet this prosecutor lives in a nice, gated community where he doesn’t have to worry about crime..let’s see someone bash his head in a bunch of times see how he likes it..bet he cries out for his mamma and wishes he had a gun
Would be up to DA if another trial happened.
LMAO....bernie says why does ZIMMERMAN keep exaggerating everything? Bernie, bernie......you f’punk, you exaggerate EVERYTHING yourself.
“He is winding up for the inevitable f’in punks”
Hey, it takes one to know one. And bernie seems to know them well.
Now following him showed ill will and hatred
and another fkjksj punks —
Nor am I appreciative of being yelled at. In fact, I go directly to suspicious and if it continues to hostility.
5th A Hole / F'n punks?
I bet 3 fp. 5 ah
I’d pay someone to run through the court showing the real pics of Martin playing gangster...How to get the gang language texts from his cell phone to the jury??
Hmmm
All Martin had to do to stay alive is not beat Zimmerman’s head into the concrete.
BTW, I’m the police. Don’t leave your house today. That’s an order. OK, now if you disobey that order and something bad happens, it’s YOUR fault by YOUR logic.
/spit /sick of anyone stupid enough to “think” like this...
Roger. Check.
Why is he screaming?
Never the less, Corey had a little fun.
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