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“.
A tweet to consider.
Andrew C. McCarthy @AndrewCMcCarthy 31m
Reversible error in #Zimmerman trial before we even get to deliberations - suppress exculpatory cellphone evidence
Kathi Belich, WFTV@KBelichWFTV
BDLR: #TrayvonMartin must have had more than two arms if he was beating #ZimmermanOn9 into the ground as well as reaching for the gun.
Tell you what weak little ‘racehorse’ - I’m going to report you for disturbing this thread. You cannot come in at the very end of the saga and toss your insane comments out.
How about you scuttle back to DU or wherever your kind hangs out these days, maybe still wonkette?
What you are doing is wrong.
How in the HELL do you “keep someone in view” in the pitch black unless you’re following them? You are an absolute idiot!
SKITTLES!
That being said, I have the utmost respect and sympathy for those in the black community who are trying to effect change. They're the real victims in all of this.
IIRC he said he hoped to G*d there WAS video of it.
Bernie said he did not say it.
As of 1526 EST:
"A**Hole":10
"F***ing Punks":7
"Crazy a** cracker": 1
Terrible job...The prosecutor is failing bad....desperate.
the talking head said the women were really paying attention to him when he talked. Some other woman here said he looks like Kevin Cosner
I pray ppl aren't this stupid or gullible ....
“Skittles that he didn’t even steal, but bought”? Hello??? Who’s racist now?
TM did not steal the Skittles.
George Zimmerman is guilty!
Bus in the Korean shopkeepers. At least they have the stones to stand up for themselves.
Bernie doing the Silly Walk?
It would be bad enough to be convicted, but to be convicted by an gnimalf elohssa like BDLR would be too much.
What is that? Weekend at Bernie’s?
Legitimately bought skittles, he didn’t even steal.........OMG that just can’t be real.
Skittles that he didn’t even steal — Skittles that he legitimately bought.
Whoa. Where did that come from???
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