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“.
Judge Nelson: I'd prefer you get a room.
“Not one witness that the prosecution brought forth did anything at all to advance their case”. ~ Mark Furhman
4:03
Kathi Belich, WFTV@KBelichWFTV
BDLR is asking the jury - where is the blood on #TrayvonMartin’s hands? Still showing parts of the Hannity #ZimmermanOn9 interview.
4:04
Ryan Hughes - WFTV@RHughesWFTV Retweeted by Kathi Belich, WFTV
NOW: Prosecutor claims #GeorgeZimmerman said “he’s skipping away. La...la...la,” as he skips through #Sanford courtroom. #ZIMMERMANon9.
Oh no......oh no.........please don’t do the dummy
Ping for prayer, Logan’s Prayer Warriors. Please see post 2101.
lol, that’s pretty funny!
Does he really have the dummy doll out?! Or was that just a joke?
“ow..all I see is pure evil in her eyes!”
‘Same as our LIAR -In-Chief!
Amen!
This guy is sooooo damn boring.
Kathi Belich, WFTV@KBelichWFTV
Jurors in back row stood when BDLR demonstrated w/doll, took notes during Hannity interview playback. #Zimmermanon9 @RHughesWFTV
One thing for sure, I hope these guys doing the dummy are wearing protection.
The blurrier gets the less ugly she is. What liquor are you advertising again?
The question was the prosecutor’s question, not mine.I was just passing it along. And answering it.
Remember folks, there is more riding on this than Zimmerman, not only riots, but the right result will cost the MSM many $$$$. There has to be a lot of money riding on this trial. There are heavily involved influences behind it.
If the prosecution’s case was a horse it would already be on it’s way to the glue factory.
Repeating repeating repeating....Over and over and over....Now f’n punk again...
He has nothing else...
Desperate...
Hi, Nita — good to see you. The following shows how perverse this travesty of a trial is:
I was just re-reading Z’s statement on the way to finding a link to the entire re-enactment video.
de la Rionda earlier in his closing made big deal (high pitched theatrics) claiming that Z had **no reason** to immediately suspect TM, that TM was an innocent kid on his way home, why did Z suspect him just because he was lurking around a house (on a dark, COLD, RAINY evening) — which, for all Z knew, could have been TM’s own house? Clearly Z was profiling (code: racist bigot) and out of line.
But according to Z’s statements, he was immediately on the alert because he knew TM *didn’t* live in that house:
// Zimmerman said he was driving to buy groceries when he spotted the unarmed teen walking near a house **that he knew Martin did not live in** and called police [non-emergency number] to report a suspicious person. //
Z’s handwritten statement: http://newspreview.corp.dig.com/images/US/Zimmerman_Handwritten_Narrative.pdf
It’s not coming up; here’s paraphrase: http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/06/21/abc-coverage-of-zimmerman-re-enactment-video-release/
Racehorse, this is the video of the re-enactment Z did for the police for you in case you’d not seen it — it explains a whole lot and will help fill in some of your gaps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qfkRTC5gF4
I’m gonna go check my garden now.
he must have read my previous post HA
stalking is a specific crime in FL.
did bernie say the word “stalking?”
Stalkers don’t tell the police where to meet them.
“HOW DOES HE GET THE GUN OUT?!!”
“Good point, Bernie. You win. He couldn’t get the gun out. Therefore, he couldn’t have shot Trayvon. Case dismissed.”
The point Bernie’s trying to make is that GZ had the gun out before TM punched him to the ground.
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