"Would you get mad if I just gave you one kiss?"
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“.
WTFTV playing the questions to GZ now..let’s see what they say
It’s the Emmanuel Goldstein Effect....
Makes me cringe every time I see it.
Can anyone remember one moment when misJudge jumped all over the prosecution the way she has the defense?
Nancy disGrace is a good name for her, I use to watch her show when I wanted to keep up with something and it is stunning- she seldom seems to have any idea what she is talking about. Most of the time she is so unprepared you wonder if she has even read any notes before her show much less done her homework to be informed. Without really knowing the facts in most cases she discusses, once she picks a side she cannot be swayed.
Quoted from an old friend, but this judge certainly fits this description. She looks like a ‘bag full of a$$holes.’
Ex-Sanford police chief tells Local 6 why he didn’t arrest George Zimmerman
Former police chief Bill Lee says he may have saved his job but would not violate his oath
Published On: Jul 10 2013 06:37:45 PM EDT Updated On: Jul 11 2013 09:04:13 AM EDT
. . . unless that means having the prosecution and defense deliver their closing arguments on the same day. So to further assist the prosecution, she will make the defense wait a day so that the jury can have a full day to consider the prosecution's closing argument without hearing the rebuttal of the defense.
“That was a flagrant violation of the fifth amendment. Over the objections of his attorney she forced him to testify under oath. I’ve never seen that happen before.”
That little bit of video is being played a lot today and it has made this judge infamous. She can’t hide from the facts of her own misconduct and I hope she gets what she so richly deserves.
West was clearly objecting to the timing, not to the question itself... and he’s 100% right about that.
Exactly.
WTFTV ..playing it to show the animosity towards West
Said it wasn’t before Jury
said Nelson is studied and knows and follows the law ...(DISAGREE)
if so, she wouldn’t have just gotten reversed because she refused a self defense instruction
Grr. I hope you’re wrong.
"Would you get mad if I just gave you one kiss?"
In Sanford Florida, justice is neither blind nor slyphlike. She has no sword, but bludgeons with a political club.
Off with head
She does it so often that it’s so obviously fake. I wish someone would call her on it.
“Can anyone remember one moment when misJudge jumped all over the prosecution the way she has the defense?”
Never once, from what I have watched. And I haven’t missed much. Her pro-state bias has been obvious from Day One of this trial.
I just listened to that again. The beginning of her questions were whether he knew his rights to testify, then have you had a chance to speak with your lawyers, then the objections, the exchange etc. Only THEN did she say “ I am asking how much time your client will need to discuss this with attorneys”. She never said one thing about how much time until she got her -— in the ringer.
do you have anything to show that the Judge can’t inquire at that point in Florida other than your opinion.
I don’t have anything one way or the other.
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