This whole trial is justice denied.
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“.
If she lowers the charge, she opens herself up to a conspiracy charge from The People. It shows that The Man is pulling her strings and this was just a show trial. It could set off the riot.
An innocent 12 year old boy was gunned down by a white racist vigilante. That’s what people are thinking. And the government wants to go easy on him? No justice, no peace. Long hot summer.
So is this totally up to the judge? It seems strange that she would have this much "power" as she can determine whether original charge will be successful or not and "adjust" the charges if needed....I have read that she will decide and I have also read that the lesser charges are "automatically" included under Fla. law...Does anyone know for sure? thanks!!!
This whole trial is justice denied.
The curtain is coming up.
Starting right on time. This judge is punctual, if nothing else.
She wants this done and over with.
Link please?
Oh Yeah baby, you like it rough don’t ya’
The dummy represents Traydmark’s father. If he had a father who wasn’t a Crip. Maybe a father who would finance rent-a-mobs to get justice for Traydmark during a long planned NAACP convention. The kind of father every wannabe an MMA star gangsta really needs when he is acting stupidly. ..
Good morning...:)
I’m pretty sure he parked his truck illegally....
Post it here.
Is GZ’s family allowed in at this point?
Nancy disGrace thinks they should do away with the trial and hang GZ. She was going ballistic last night if anybody hinted he could be innocent.
A poor innocent boy who was too small to do anything was killed and there had to be retribution. What happened to innocent until proven guilty Nancy?
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I’ve thought for years that Nancy Grace is either mentally ill or has some sort of personality disorder.
Nancy Grace gets the same reaction from me that Shepard Smith does—if I inadvertently encounter their faces or voices when channel surfing, I IMMEDIATELY change the channel.
MOM is preparing his closing statements. West will handle the jury instructions for defense.
Every single commentator that I've heard knows that the prosecution failed. They lament it, bemoan it, agonize at the injustice of it, etc., but they acknowledge it. Liz Wiehl on Imus this morning (Imus and Liz are idiots) declared that there's no doubt that Zimmerman caused the event, but that he'd be acquitted because the evidence is on his side. I would love to see the evidence she's using to show "he caused it." It doesn't exist. If his "causing it" is SO FLIPPIN' OBVIOUS, then he'd be convicted. And Imus was cheering in the background because he's afraid of them "nappy headed words" of his years ago.
Some cringeworthy responses on Twitter to Guy using the dummy.
why is Corey where she is sitting
MOM not in court - Did not catch reason why. Don West will argue the instructions.
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