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“.
I find him very charming, but I like Aquarians, so that’s not unusual.
both sides are getting 3 hours.
Maybe Bernie will use most of it
Many 911 calls came in on 09/11/2001. Some callers were
told to stay where they were, the firemen would be there
shortly and help them get out safely. Some, acting on their
own instincts may have had another outcome, hard to know,
isn’t it racehorse, in the middle of an unfolding situation.
A 911 dispatchers job is to get info, dispatch services,
give advice like cpr or basic first aid and offer support.
They do not have authority over the caller. You seem to need
a lot of direction and help. Whatever. Don’t project that
need on everyone else. And just as easily, TM could have
gone into the apartment he was “staying” at, without
initiating a fistfight with someone who ‘dissed’ him.
Choices, choices.
What's going to be different this time is that they have Obamaphones which they can use to coordinate their flash mobs and riots.
Grrrr. Woof woof woof woof woof.
You’re very late to the party.
Z lost visual contact with T. That’s what he said, that he had visually lost him. If you know the layout of the area and that T was walking near houses and Z was in a truck on the street, you see how that makes sense.
There has been evidence presented that T had actually made it to the back of the apt. in which he was living, and that Z was returning to his truck after the dispatcher said “we don’t need for you to do that” (re-establish visual contact), when out of the dark appeared T and sucker punched him. There was almost the length of a football field from where T had made it back to and where he sucker punched Z. Reasonable conclusion, he circled back and attacked instead of going inside the safety of the apt.
However, none of that, racehorse, none of that has any bearing whatsoever on the florida self-defense law. In that law, at any point in an encounter or altercation if you reasonably believe you are in danger of being killed or seriously injured, you have the right to defend yourself by necessary means.
You can ignore that truth all you want, it’s still the law and this jury is obligated to follow the law when they decide this.
If they have reasonable doubt as to Z’s guilt from the prosecution’s case, they are obligated to render “not guilty”.
I think one is married to an attorney and another one has a relative that is or married to an attorney
Thx. I missed that.
i bet those jurors are gonna be po'd when they find out about all the text messages they didn't get to see.
Are those posted anywhere that you know of?
3:35
Kathi Belich, WFTV@KBelichWFTV
E6 has 2 notebooks going. Looks as though she’s comparing notes. #Zimmermanon9 - @RHughesWFTV
If he didn’t skittle
you must acquittal
Well.... everyone knows that Trayvon was a Juvenile Delinquent. Even his Dad knows. The first thing he did the next morning was call the local JUVIE LOCKUP to see if Trayvon was there (again).
He is trying to run out the clock so that the jurors are left with only his version of the incident for the night.
Holder's plane must be late.
WTF TV. e6 has 2 notebooks going. Looks as though she’s comparing notes.
GREAT NEWS:
Kathi Belich, WFTV@KBelichWFTV
E6 has 2 notebooks going. Looks as though she’s comparing notes. #Zimmermanon9 - @RHughesWFTV
“BDLR is the biggest Asshole in Florida.”
I will take exception to that! Ricky Scott is the biggest.
Your opinion must be based on the fact that Bernie is “breaking wind more publicly”.
Smiles to you, NT.
Repeating repeating repeating...
This guy is blowing it...Jury probably wants the attorney arrested for gross annoyance.
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