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Day 23 (Week #5) Zimmerman Trial – Closing Statements
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | July 11, 2013 | Sundance

Posted on 07/11/2013 4:59:59 AM PDT by Uncle Chip

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To: Marcella; Fawn
Facts are important.


1,401 posted on 07/11/2013 11:07:13 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: MHGinTN

what a day for a Benghazi document dump.....no one would be lookin


1,402 posted on 07/11/2013 11:07:13 AM PDT by advertising guy (Phoenix...........where a prick in the butt ain't sexual.............it's a cactus)
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To: 9422WMR
I think any neutral observers (jury), after having watched the whole trial, would think ol’ Bernie is totally nutso with his closing arguments. Hysterical screaming will never substitute for calm facts. MOM will hold their hands; Bernie is breaking their fingers.
1,403 posted on 07/11/2013 11:07:28 AM PDT by JPG (Obama Does Egypt.)
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To: Mama Shawna

He thinks Zimmerman brought it on, feeling ‘tough’ ‘cause he had a gun, etc.


Ah. Arrogant ignorance.

When two guys get in a physical altercation and one has a “hidden” gun and one is not armed, it is pretty much guaranteed that the one without a gun started it.

It’s the same psychology that made MAD (mutual assured destruction) effective. Frankly, I think it’s why so many of the black racists hate Zimmerman. Their attitude is that the guy that brings a gun to a fistfight is the one in the wrong.

It’s one of the many reasons I say this whole thing is a clash of cultures. Klingons vs human civilization. And to be clear, I’m talking about CULTURE, not race.


1,404 posted on 07/11/2013 11:07:40 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: piytar

If Martin was so worried about the guy who was “stalking” him, WHY DIDN’T HE CALL THE COPS?


1,405 posted on 07/11/2013 11:07:41 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: House Atreides

Nope, that’s why Bernie is tuned out right now and I’d rather clean the cat litter boxes than listen to Bernie.


1,406 posted on 07/11/2013 11:07:44 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: dragnet2

Now he flat out called Zimmerman a liar, without ANY proof Zimmerman lied about anything!


1,407 posted on 07/11/2013 11:08:01 AM PDT by MaxMax (If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention)
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To: LUV W

DeLaRionda doesn’t have either a voice or manner that wears well for more than a very brief time. By the end of his closing, I might find myself up for Murder2.


1,408 posted on 07/11/2013 11:08:06 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: NautiNurse; All
West arguing insufficient evidence for a variety of the new trumped charges.

I'm joining late, so someone may have already covered this:

How can a defense team have a coherent defense against "charges to be named later"?

What's to stop any prosecutor from filing one charge, but knowing during the entire trial that he's really going for another charge.

As an example. I want to find you guilty of speeding. My strategy is to charge you with vehicular manslaughter. You defense team looks at the elements of the charge and has a strategy to defend against that particular charge .

When the prosecution says that you were speeding AND driving with a dozen spears in the front grill of your car your defense team is focusing on the charge… vehicular manslaughter. They say,

“Five white ladies and one Hispanic lady of the jury, my client wasn’t driving with 12 spears in the grill of his car. Doing so would be unsafe and ridiculous. He didn’t have spears in the front of his car, he doesn’t own any spears, and he is NOT GUILY!"

In the end, the persecution y fail to prove vehicular manslaughter. It never was their intention to prove it. But, there were successful in diverting your attention from their real goal…speeding. The defense was fighting the wrong fight.

That’s allowing a horrible diversion and it just doesn’t seem morally right.

I know this is an imperfect, un-lawyerly example….

1,409 posted on 07/11/2013 11:08:17 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy ( Because police powers are essential to the public good that abusing them is so offensive.)
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This man has nothing.
Lots of fkn punk.
1,410 posted on 07/11/2013 11:08:30 AM PDT by novemberslady (Texas For President)
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To: RetSignman

My husband has sold cars for thirty years.......never screams, great guy, sells 40 cars a month, all repeat clients. Lol I always do this....you are profiling


1,411 posted on 07/11/2013 11:08:37 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: All

Wen Bernie saya TM “is no longer with us” I’m thinking he was never “with” you Bernie. I would bet good Money that Bernie lives in an all white neighborhood.


1,412 posted on 07/11/2013 11:08:45 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: MaxMax

I think GZ even told that to the dispatcher


1,413 posted on 07/11/2013 11:08:49 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Betty Jane
Jurors, ask yourselves why nobody testified to what a fine young man TM was

Well, there was a reason for this... if someone testified as to trayvon being "a good student, fine young man, aspiring rap artist, etc etc" ... then that would open up the defense to show what a punk he really was. All of the gangsta facebook photos and posts, and so on.

That's why we've not had a procession of people in the courtroom attesting to St. Trayvon's unimpeachable character.

1,414 posted on 07/11/2013 11:08:53 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Toespi

“WTF TV. One juror who has always taken notes.......is not now.”

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I don’t think that’s unusual during closing, though. They’ve sat through all the evidence and took all the notes they’ll need. Opening and closing statements are not evidence anyway.


1,415 posted on 07/11/2013 11:09:01 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: NKP_Vet

This is the first time I’ve watch the trial. That prosecutor is a nutcase.


1,416 posted on 07/11/2013 11:09:05 AM PDT by matt04
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To: tioga

There is zero evidence Z set out to shoot someone, or that he had his gun out to confront TM. Rather obvious when you receive an ass beating and shoot someone at the end, you did not enter the event with your gun planning to shoot.

If you started with your gun out, it would no longer be available to you once your ass whooping was underway, you would have been disarmed.

No evidence of any plan to shoot anyone.


1,417 posted on 07/11/2013 11:09:28 AM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: SteveH

//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 //


thanks, funny, I was just getting ready to link.

dlR just said pros wanted to show all the evidence they had, so we could get to know the real TM — unbelievable.


1,418 posted on 07/11/2013 11:09:30 AM PDT by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Indeed


1,419 posted on 07/11/2013 11:09:33 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

Aha! Another “f’n punk”!


1,420 posted on 07/11/2013 11:10:22 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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