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 know...here we’ve been walking around unarmed and innocently assuming we were safe without knowing trees and grass were out for us..
we used to be friends til she kept talking abt obama obama obama during election. as of today i will never speak to her again.
her unwillingness to take a breathe let alone allow me to ask her a question was enuf for me.
the reason i mentioned it was to prove tensions are high. real high amongst the true racist. to do this at WORK was simply amazing.
Poor Travon is dead
Poor Travon Martin is dead
All gather round his coffin now and cry
He had a heart of gold
And he wasn’t very old
Oh why did such a druggie thug have to die?
Moreso in need of a bitch-slappin!
I don’t think MoM used the THC becuase it was a minute amount and it wouldn’t of made a difference. I think if they were allowed to use the text msgs about him fighting, they would of brought up the pot. But the pot by itself would of only harmed them.
re: TM text msgs, here’s another source for raw info including the msgs:
http://gzlegalcase.com/index.php/court-documents/174-defendant-s-3rd-supplemental-discovery
School records listed, but redacted (sigh). I’d read some of that months ago on theconservativetreehouse.com
LMAO.....I was outside the other morning with my puppy and told her to hurry up so we can get out of this noisy wet grass and back inside.....she just looked at me like I was nuts.
Did the idiotPA ever once thank the jury?
Just hysterical.
LOL... Looked like he wanted to scream, too.
What I read said that Tracy called Juve Hall first, The local jail(police) next, then the police called him about ID'ing his son.
ROFL!!!
Yes, it would be interesting to know why she left Chicago.
WHO is most negatively impacted by young black thugs or wannabe thugs? It isn’t usually white suburban housewives, but black women, black families. I’ve known too many black women who live in DC’s black ‘hoods who live in continual fear, who carry even tho it’s illegal, who keep their blinds drawn, and who fear for their own lives and their children’s lives. It is no way to live, and at some point someone has to fix it, not exacerbate like Obama and Holder and Al and Jesse.
“Not one witness that the prosecution brought forth did anything at all to advance their case”. ~ Mark Furhman
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If no crime was committed, he must be acquitted.
Like our lovely “first lady.”
Pinging your post to myself so I can find it when I get home and I have my whiskey bottle handy. Thanks a lot for doing that, you had to listen to this bozo. Now you know how PJ and Charles feel doing DUFU.
What you could do....is hire you some attack dogs to retaliate against the attack trees.
(just a thought)
Thank you, and thanks to ALL who replied. This will help when the verdict comes out, and everyone goes batty (especially if he’s found not guilty, or a mistrial happens).
Talking head- State only getting about 45 minutes tomorrow
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