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“.
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Like most young black males engaged in drug use and crime, Martin would have died at an early age sooner or later. And most likely by another young black male thug. Zimmerman unknowingly pulled a “Minority Report” and thwarted numerous future crimes.
State was pathetic, and I don’t think they care. I think they know jury will find him guilty just becuz of the publicity, impending riots and the safety of their own lives.
commentary on WFTV Bill Schaeffer: “He didn’t marry facts to his argument” -and- “...long on emotion, short on facts.”
http://www.wftv.com/s/zimmerman-livestream/
You are guilty of dog abuse if you don't alert her to noisy grass danger and attack trees. I'm reporting you. :o)
Yep! Good point!
Methinks a not guilty verdict by tommorrow night unless appeals court down the hall overturns the directed verdict decision from Nelson.
That says a lot, doesn’t it? Nice man from a lovely family with salt-of-the-earth friends.
I am with you.
Yes, but it came off dry and insincere. And then, instead of stopping (which is customary) he started rambling on again.
But under oath he said he called Juvenile Hall first.
retail stores are preparing for trouble.
When verdict announce I be a few will go into lockdown.
(FL has that tropical storm too)
lol yes. Actually if he makes the point that TM could not get it then GZ could not either, unless he already had it drawn, and as someone above pointed out that would mean that GZ let himself be punched and beaten while holding a loaded gun, which he did not use until he thought he’d receive grievous harm. Let’s see if he goes there.
It was a a stealth closing argument.
Do I feel bad for the parents?? Maybe before I saw the Tray videos.
We will have some rioting but I see a LOT more of individual and small group attacks on whites. It will be happening all over the country
Just like Congress.
I want to do something. What’s the best way?
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