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“.
Subdued sad bald guy.
Z was not warned to stay away until the police arrived. He did not pursue, as T had disappeared.
T went home, then came back. This after peeking in windows during weather that people don’t idly wander around in.
As for your mistake of entering the wrong house and the owners not killing you, well, you didn’t go back inside after leaving and then proceed to smash their skulls with blunt instruments while they pleaded for help and begged you to stop.
Bernie screamed and now they gotta go to the bathroom.
“Hell, if a couple of them have PMS during the deliberation, they might have to call in a SWAT team to subdue them.”
You’re cruisin’ for a verbal bruisin’, aren’t you? ROFL
Bernie’s voice considerably lower...someone must of told him like he was yelling and treating jury like imbecils.
lol
Will Bernie ramble on til 4:00 and MOM start tomorrow?
>> That is not the testimony. The defense let it go.
My guess is, MOM won’t object to much, if anything, in BDLR’s first go-round — he’ll just take good notes and demolish it when he gets his turn.
I bet defense WILL object in prosecution’s second round if they misstate evidence.
Fight that he started by following —
I wish I had started a count
He is trying to modulate his voice as the second hour begins.
You can not hit me or hurt me for simply following you.
I can kill you if I need to do so, to stop you from beating me.
That is the law, moron!
I think you might be a dangerously deranged person. Good thing you're not my neighbor. Thank God!
How many strange people at any hour of the day have you confronted?
Nope. BDLR mute button just broke.
Bernie doing 2 hours
Guy 1
Bernie back to screetching again
That didn’t take long.
oh okay. I wonder how the jurors have been responding to MOM?
Thx.
Actually, maybe they actually planned to hold up a 9mm cartridge for a dramatic effect and literally forgot their ammo!
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Andrew Branca, LOSD @LawSelfDefense 17m #zimmermantrial Juror B29 won't make eye contact with BDLR. She's a hispanic nurse.
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Angela Romo @Angela2132 14m @LawSelfDefense Is she a White Hispanic Nurse?
My guess..favorable to MOM but don’t know
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