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“.
Every day it gets worse - beyond anything we could have imagined 5 years ago.
The judge is basically going to outlaw following suspicious people in order to tell the police where the suspicious person is.
Zimmerman is half-Peruvian, not Mexican. He's also not a fellow gang-banger. I doubt he would get protection from them.
Give yourself a ceegar, LB! Very few Judges think the courtroom is anything but a mere extension of themselves.
I don’t mind admitting that this farce is scaring the he’ll out of me. Any of us can be railroaded. All in the light of day.
This seems to be going on longer than I believe anticipated.
BTW, did the state enter into evidence anything about Martin’s age? Was his birth certificate entered into evidence? Were there stipulations early on in this case about the broad facts of the case? Did witness with knowledge mention his age? If not, I do not see how child abuse charges can be included.
George Zimmerman Defense Fund
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Oviedo, FL 32762-2793
Thank you so much! I wrote this down and if, heaven forbid, he should be found guilty of anything, I will send what I can to him.
West: It is the absence of case law that proves our point
Judge TOOL is asking defense to prove that leprechauns and and pots of gold at the end of rainbows don't exist.
How can that be when our very own president has just ordered federal employees to spy on and report their co-workers? We are truly living in bizarro world.
wanna bet a Drone has z’s name on it already
There are many, many cases where a juvenile is charged as an adult.
I would argue VER, VERY ,VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY few
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also he’s viewed as a vigilante and someone who wants law and order
Exactly. Following him means very little. Following while on the PHONE TO THE POLICE.
Judge is still resisting anything like "it is legal to follow" in jury instruction.
We just don’t have the criminal mentality to riot, murder, burn cities down, knock out windows all with the desire to loot. As long as all we do is sit in our homes blogging about this injustice to GZ, it will continue to get worse.
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