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“.
“Somebody’s got to go to prison, Ben.” - Agent Sadusky, National Treasure
there is a picture of John Goodman in a wig that has been posted.
Looks pretty similiar
Surely the jury recognizes that. (We hope)
“if so, she wouldn’t have just gotten reversed because she refused a self defense instruction”
The idiots on the left are hoping that you/we are not informed enough to know about that reversal. They really hate an informed opposition!
I'd be lost without them. hummingbird
Thanks Rummychick. The Judge and George were on screen at 8:00, but now the curtain has been pulled down again, so I guess it will be 10am before it comes up again, Fawn.
I guess we have 2 free hours to prepare for the ‘end of the world’ as we know it.
: )
Here’s a point that I haven’t seen anyone make...
Maybe there’s a reason and it doesn’t make sense, but here goes...
If Trayvon Martin, or anyone, would have jumped on a police officer like that and had him pinned...and the police officer not knowing if the assailant had a weapon, would the police officer shoot him???
(Forget all the nuances..police in better shape, can fight, Tm has to obey them, etc...just the basic points above, in those same instances, would he be justified in shooting?)
Yeah, well, guess who ain’t watching the trial. The rioters. They don’t no anything except that an innocent African American 12 year-old was gunned down by a white racist.
Aggravated assault with a firearm is a lot more than five years.
Bill S. MOM’s threat about bringing in a lot of witnesses kept last witness off the stand
I am sure he knew he would and that is why he said it
Per WESH the couple whose address waa tweeted as Zimmerman’s have been advised to leave town on verdict day.
I would think so. Just turned on the live feed and saw Zimmerman sitting there with his eyes closed. That man has been through a lot. He does not deserve this.
Change it to, “An off duty police officer,” and it gets weirder.
If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times.
they just went over that just now but wasn’t paying attention..talked about aggravated battery etc.
*snicker*
Yes, it was. Judges do it all the time. The problem was her questioning him before the defense rested...that was ludicrous...
Now you tell me the difference between this and animation!
I think (always cause for trouble) that it’s the sequence of how the Judge conducted that questioning that should be in question.
She should have asked him if he had decided yet, and if he said NO, left it at that.
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