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“.
Cursive?
Yep, he’s got the DCA on hold.
But will they be held responsible? Remember, this goes all the way to Holder and the White House!
I can’t stand watching this travesty!
thank God for Mr. West.
This trial has set race relations back 80 years.
Kenyan dictator is laughing.
My guess is that this is why Mark is not in court....They got the email at 7 this morning. Just wait a few minutes.
That’s just great! Freaking love it!
Andrew Branca, LOSD @LawSelfDefense
#zimmermantrial In a multi-decade legal career I’ve never seen such a travesty of justice. http://www.lawofselfdefense.com
Oddly, that's what Mr. West said.
this crap was prepared in DC count on it
>> Holder is working with prosecuting attorneys...This is what Holder has been doing on the side...betcha..
Two days ago I would have ignored this comment and thought you were maybe a little tinfoil-nuts. :-)
After what we found out yesterday — no way would I bet against you.
The DOJ involvement in this case is positively chilling.
This is REALLY a high-tech lynching, too!
-—>”straining mightily to appear impartial”
All she seems to need is just enough cover to agree with the prosecution. The defense arguments on the other hand have to be ironclad.
That seems to infer that we're not one.
I don’t jump to conclusions about prosecutorial misconduct, however I’m not sure there ever was a case in which the federal government funded racial protests against the defendant, the police chief was fired because he knew there was no evidence to prosecute, the lead investigator who filed the charges knew they were untrue and believed the defendant, etc.
That leaves out the president saying TM looks like his “son”.
We are way through the looking glass with wild racism occurring, in this case not really against whites so much as against a Hispanic.
Weren’t we told by the “official” Hispanic organizations that Zimmerman wasn’t one of them and their sympathies lay with Trayvon?
But will they be held responsible? Remember, this goes all the way to Holder and the White House!
Not in this lifetime, but they will have to meet the ultimate judge one of these days.
This is like two teams meeting on the basketball court and at the final buzzer the final score is 110 to 20, but before the final score can be posted on the scoreboard the losing team wants the game thrown out and another game that they didn’t play substituted for it.
Your preference...and the defacto standard here at FR.
MSN would not lie to me, would they? /s
No, of course they wouldn't. Never. Not possible. Since...standard protocols of a kangaroo court and proper railroading procedures have been followed by this Judge from Day One.
Yeah, I was watching disGrace’s meltdown as she threw everything at the wall including the phone call which St Martin’s girlfriend said he might be a rapist. So Martin was afraid for his life or being raped and GZ approached him with a gun which is when Martin hit him knocking him to the ground. She is nuts.
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