Remember FR! 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“.
LOL.
>>>>Probably not Detroit. Zimmerman isn’t big news in Michigan.<<<<
Kind of surprises me...Det is where it all started for me (leftism vis a vis race)...but I wouldn’t be too sure...could be simmering underground...?
Disclaimer: I don’t really know what vis a vis means and am not sure I used it correctly, but it sounded right dammit!!
Yah, some of my friends lacked judgment, hanging out with me...
LOL. You’re right!
That makes the most sense.
Wow...you sure nailed her! Whenever I see her from now on, I’ll be waiting for a tongue to dart out to catch a fly!
EEEEK!!!
"Who's there?
"Prosecutor"
"Prosecutor who?"
"I ask the questions around here!"
(Yes, I made it up....guilty as charged)
Leni
It was close to rioting in the early 90's with the police beating death of Malice Green, but that was local and right after Rodney King.
Effing punk: "Knock, knock"
Young wife holding child: "Who is it?"
Effing punk: "It's sweet little innocent teenager, Trayvon Martin. Open the door before I break it down, you crazy ass cracka beotch. BTW, you're gonna die tonight, Mo Fo.
As me 101 yo G Auntie would say after crap like this,”Oh My”.
Stop! Yer killin me!
L M A O !!!
Good one, leni!
You did watch the summation by the State didn't you?
“the defense should play Z screaming for a straight 45 seconds”
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Do they have the entire 45 seconds he was screaming? If they do that would be powerful, because listening to someone scream for help for even a few seconds is hard to take.
I hear ya, but it still seems strange. My experience — granted 35 yrs ago — was a lot of racial discord. Plus, a lot of leftist strategists/brainiacs...think WU or SDS. Didn’t one of those groups originate in Port Huron? Maybe Det is just where “they” send out the leftist marching orders!
OH MY!
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