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“.
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Cite a law that says it is legal to follow someone.
Liberty is against the law!!
Oh, I thought other Central Americans and South Americans had also joined MS 13. All this racism between such specific groups is too much for me to comprehend!
west is going to be held in contempt if he keeps this up...she is hammering him right now
Legal blasphemy.
Judge Beotch dictating to West not to argue with her “rulings”.
FU, Nelson!
WOW — the instruction that following someone is not a crime has been taken out of instructions
West is enflamed —
The judge is basically going to outlaw following suspicious people in order to tell the police where the suspicious person is.
This government judge is corrupt..
This biased government judge nothing short of evil..
“Judge Beotch dictating to West not to argue with her “rulings”.
FU, Nelson!”
I second that emotion!
If I were West I would force that issue and take that hit. His client’s very life is at stake here.
I thought that was how she was going to end her little speech there.
God hates...HATES injustice. What we are seeing in this trial is a microcosm of the outworking of a people that have turned their collective backs on Him receiving the bitter harvest of what they/we have sown. We have the leaders we have because WE, the people have elected them. We have the justice we have because WE have sat around and turned our backs repeatedly on acts of injustice. We have the children we have because WE have failed to follow God’s pattern for parenting them. So, their are feral youths, corrupt judges, complicit leaders. Those that love justice and hate iniquity mourn and rend their clothes, but, collectively, it is WE THE PEOPLE that have allowed this to happen over time. “America is great because America is good. America will cease to be great when she ceases to be good.” We are no longer great because we (collectively) are no longer a good people.
And Jesus said, “Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
West isn't doing all that great as far as I can tell. Perhaps he has allowed prosecutor sand-bagging to get him emotional.
She is “making” law right now before our eyes.
Her attitude puts a whole new meaning to the ‘justice is blind’ motto. She is blinded to any logic.
Closing statements by defense are going to have to work around this b.s.
The kangaroo is strong with this one ... whatta cow on hind legs!
“The judge is basically going to outlaw following suspicious people in order to tell the police where the suspicious person is.”
But didn’t the President just the other day suggest that federal employees keep watch over their fellow workers to ferret out any possible leakers among them?
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