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“.
The Manslaughter might stick under the “Should have tried to wound him” defense that so many idiots use these days. The Defense has to sneak in the penalty for Manslaughter.
So am I!!! This is a true miscarriage of justice if I ever saw one!!! SPITTING MAD RIGHT NOW!
“Corey is sitting right there approving this.”
Yep. The only word I can come up with is disgusting. This whole thing is a circus.
Sure vehicular homicide, he got out of the car!
West points out that the prosecutors have been working on this for months and dumped it on the defense a half hour before the hearing.
Child abuse??? Sounds like the Casey Anthony “throw the sh!/ up against the wall and see what sticks” method of winning a case.
This “hail Mary” pass by the state and the bit*h judge can NOT stand. This is probably THE biggest outrage thus far. Their desperation is now going beyond the realm of science fiction. They’re waaay out there in space now.
I seriously believe this judge is under threat......no jurist could possibly be so obviously willing to destroy their career, their reputation and credentials.
-—>”I do believe MOM should use this in closing arguments”
Plan on it. He will talk about how they overcharged and now are desperate to get ANY kind of win.
Paging Roscoe Arbuckle...
This judge is lying through her teeth. She knew damned well what the state was planning to do. She’s “in on it”.
Absolutely agree with you! My God! This is an outrage!
Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction. There was an explosion when the gun went off.
Well she has put herself in a lose/lose situation now.
Abso-frikken-lutely! She wasn't surprised in the least and didn't even seem to ponder it for a second.
Good point--MOM could say: when the state persecutors knew their case was hopeless, they ambushed the defense at 7:30AM with new trumped up charges of child abuse.
I am so disgusted right now.
The sad thing is that if Z is convicted of anything, the media will run around screaming about his guilt and ignore the terrible injustice of keeping TM’s fighting history from the jury.
Possibly. But there is a huge downside - that with a long list of possible crimes, a message is sent that the jury really should pick one.
No. .damn it they cannot have it BOTH ways.
This is INSANITY. RIGHT OUT IN FRONT OF GOD EVERYONE’S
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