"Until I ran out of bullets."
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“.
Yes..and have you stocked up on duck tape and other essentials?
I guess he likes it rough...
Can't say as I've ever seen a whole bag at one time but I'm going to take your word.
Yes I remember earlier it was stated that the firearm would increase the sentence - possibly to 25 years?
Instead of leaving town, I would either hire a team of ARMED guards...or would get every friend and neighbor I could to come hang out at my house... while being VERY well-armed.
Root discussed something relative to that in his testimony yesterday and I believe he stated the natural instinct was for the LEO to grab his gun and protect his own life.
“Per WESH the couple whose address waa tweeted as Zimmerman’s have been advised to leave town on verdict day.”
Is Spike Lee prepared to open his checkbook again?
do you know how much he had to pay???
WTF TV. Just said letters have been placed in jurors chair to see if they want to be interviewed by media after verdict. (Horror images of after the CAnthony verdict come to mind.....the public outcry)
Sad days for this country and I lay it at the feet of evil itself...Obama
Bingo!
Anyone who travels to Florida should expect less justice there than a nun singing "Jesus Loves Me" would receive in a Taliban court in Afghanistan. Now there may be one or two isolated exceptions, but this Zimmerman trial travesty has been such an ass-wipe with the Constitution that it would take decades of exemplary evidence to the contrary to alter the judicial cesspool image of Florida from this trial that NEVER should have occurred.
"Until I ran out of bullets."
Yeh....sure....make yourself a target!!
I don’t know who killed the battery. I didn’t see anyone bending over the battery and bashing it. Damn, another death and I don’t know how it happened. I suppose car place will call the cops to start investigation.
Undisclosed.
Is this the tinderbox Obie has been waiting for???
NEED HELP.....I have an opinion on most issues save this one
durin the trial Z’s drivers lic number, his social, his phone numbers, his address was displayed to the world....what if any is the recourse ??
WTFTV getting viewers from all over the world. Answering a question from overseas.
They had over 10k viewers yesterday
Guy looked like a dummy playing the dummy, lying by himself on the floor as he was questioning witness.
His old frat bro's are going to give him holy heck, and rightly so!
They'll probably haze him and it would involve the dummy. It won't be good!
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