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“.
If you value your job, you need to shun that racist coworker for a few weeks.
ROFLOL!!!
Someone wrote the jurors are taking notes and standing during the doll demo. At least he has their attention.
That makes sense. Zimmerman must have forced Martin, at gunpoint, to beat his head into the concrete.
Thanks for keeping a running total.
He needs to up the cracker comments, c’mon baldo, you can do it!
I don’t think the misjudge gave them a specific time, did she? She enquired how long Pros would take as an estimate. Could be wrong.
Thank you, BG. I appreciate it very much. I think prayer is our most powerful response to this injustice.
THINK about this........silence.......
THINK about this...........silence.......
Corey looks furious LOL
OMG! The noise from that wet grass must have been deafening.
I’m sorry you had to go through that.
I believe it refers to GZ having a round loaded in the gun's chamber, like police are required to do, and like anyone with any sense would do.
The pros is trying to make GZ look overly aggressive or some such nonsense.
to a person on this jury...they know Z did not lie as described by this maggot....if even one juror was on the fence, they ain’t now
We can all be thankful we don't have to watch Corey do the closing arguments
Corey looks furious LOL
More than normal????
wrapping it up
And reading slides of text in any presentation is deadly. It just makes the audience hate you.
“Has anyone kept up with how long he’s been talking? I hope he keeps going so they don’t have much time in their rebuttal tomorrow.
His voice is like nails on a chalkboard.”
He’s been filabustering for over three hours now, hasn’t he? I dunno. I had to take a catnap. Just woke up. His antics put me right to sleep. I can only imagine how the jury must be yawning off.
Bernie knows this has gone nowhere...It’s why he rambled so damn long...
Actually, I don’t think Corey has an option with her face, it’s just frozen on furious.
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