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“.
Bravo!! Author, author!
If BDLR made any claims surrounding TM's character, that should at minimum open the door for the defense to make some comments about his character in closing. It would have been better if they could introduce more evidence of his character, but any mothers on the juror should recognize that the father's calling Juvie looking for his kid means that he (the father) knows his kid was hardly "innocent".
You gotta understand something:
Angela Corey and her merry band of prosecutors were dead serious about the “child abuse” charge and so was Judge Nelson.
The prosecutors had an entire dossier of cases to back up that charge that must have taken months of research.
It was all but a done deal with Judge Nelson.
Then Nelson took a recess and when she came back she was of a different mindset and the state was none too happy with her change of mind.
Somebody shook her tree in chambers and one can only guess who that was.
“With clearly more to go. People in the courtroom said it was clear he had lost the jury’s attention and sympathy”
that explains the weird ending
You have got to check out how Angela Corey reacts to Bernie saying “Catch the f’ing punk that gets away.” Hahahaha!
Start the video at 46:30, it made my day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrNemHVvr90&feature=c4-overview&list=UUnN4ZxVAFoGrg-EhoRxhtTA
Good point. Oh to have been a fly on the wall in chambers to hear whatever transpired! But...no...wait...not a fly...I would have been wiped out by the Gila Monster!
the thought crossed my mind that this nutcase could go back in and say that i said anything she wanted. i blew it off.
you all are right though. i will watch my back.
she became so ANIMATED i really was wondering if she was goibg to get violent. (no cameras).
she pissed me off so - she needed to know that i would take a pounding in the head as serious as zimmerman.
ps. when i was running around gathering supplies for haiti guess how much SHE contributed?
you got it. NADA
She’ll care a lot less if Zimmerman wins. If he loses, there will be appeals, which won’t do anything but suck for her. Highly paid State investigators will be rifling though her stuff, private investigators too, but they won’t be as gentle this time (either side). They might dig out something wild, like she was Traydemark’s techie who set up his double password protected phone. Ain’t nobody got time fo dat!
But if he wins, it’s all a footnote forever, nothing more.
So, what should the illiterate manatee hope for? I think, if she had half a brain, she should be quietly rooting for George but I’ll bet she’s not. Because I don’t think she does.
I was always the moral compass. I pointed South.
LOL! What do you think she was thinking?
Let’s hope he plays “Band on the Run” for when you’re all trying to get back to your cars after the show.
If a firearm has e.g. a seven round magazine, many people will load the magazine with seven rounds, insert it, and chamber a round, leaving the magazine with six. On many (but not all) firearms, it would then be possible to remove the magazine, insert another round, and re-insert the magazine. I've not studied the exact dimensions involved, but I believe inserting a fully-loaded magazine into a firearm whose action is closed will push down somewhat on the top round; a magazine which didn't have to allow that when fully loaded could be made a little shorter than one which did; not all magazines allow that, and consequently not all firearms can usefully hold "full magazine plus one".
Personally, I would tend to think that such loading would be a nuisance, since every time the weapon is cleared one would have a cartridge one would have to store somewhere other than the magazine, but I would not begrudge anyone who wanted to go through such effort in order to have a maximally-loaded weapon.
The attorney gets jailed for contempt of court, and the judge gets to declare a mistrial which--because it was caused by the defense attorney's actions--would give the state a chance to put the defendant through another trial.
I know how he felt because the "fu***ng punk" that I've been after for over a year is about to get away from me.
My point was to illustrate the level of discourse used by Bernie who also forgot to mention that Trayvon might be on a precise par with the 2 kids (one of whom lived in the development) who robbed and, if they had gain access to the room in which she had hidden, might have raped and killed the young housewife and murdered her child.
This was the mindset of GZ...he knew how serious was the threat against himself and his neighbors.
Of course he thought that the oddly gaited young man (hence the name "lean") might be a thief and, possibly, killer.
He was scared as h$ll (oops, hope that didn't offend)...but he knew that if someone didn't take a stand, it was just a matter of time till the worst happened.
Leni
On the other hand, the TM family will gleefully bask in their new wealth gained by the death of their son.
I’m glad you had the guts to voice your opinion and equally glad that you will watch your back.
>>>>guess how much SHE contributed? you got it. NADA<<<<
Surprise!
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