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“.
“Who is doing the closing for the defense?”
Mark O’Mara will be closing for the defense.
Obviously, you aren’t watching the same trial the rest of us are.
Well... I turned the volume on the TRIAL FEED way up, and all the cockroaches ran out of the house.
Waiting for him to cry.
OMG..paraphrasing Martin Luther King over Diamond eugene..I can’t get over it..
Are the King Children going to sue for Trademark violation
Color of her testimony?!
O.M.G.
If he’s a creepy ass cracker, he must be the attacker
translation “to not believe jenteel would be racist!”
Kathi Belich, WFTV@KBelichWFTV
The public seating area is not full. Several empty seats in the back row. #Zimmermanon9
Hokey Prosecutor.
Cut me a break.
This guy referred to himself as the “bald headed dude” before the uneducated fat child even opened her mouth.
He started out saying the defendant testified he didn’t know he shot him, then he said the defendant didn’t try to revive him..if I didn’t know I shot someone I wouldn’t try to revive someone I didn’t know I shot. Besides if I just had the snot kicked out of me I am not so sure I’d feel like reviving someone at that moment.
I loved this, Bernie says foul language does not make someone unreliable........oh, yeah? He applies this ONLY to Dee Dee, aka Rachel Jeantel. After fighting to keep the text messages out that would have impeached her yet again, that takes nerve. LMAO If foul language does not stop us from judging Rachel, what about applying it to George.
Now he admits Rachel lied. Didn’t want to see the body
Content of her testimony! Now she did lie ...
This guy is an idiot.
>> I pray for our country and for justice.
WHile you’re at it, please pray for the jurors, that the Holy Spirit fall on them, come to rest in their minds and hearts, and wisely distinguish between the truth they have heard and the distortions they are now hearing.
NOW IS THE TIME TO PRAY HARD FOR THE JURORS! Now!
troof = prosecution knock knock joke.
prosecution playing race card.
prsecution daring jury to state no racist by convicting innocent man.
Rachel Jeantel is Bernie’s paragon of credibility.
He says that she should be believed and then goes into telling us that she lied.
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