Posted on 03/28/2013 9:35:36 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
A judge has denied a motion from the defense team for George Zimmerman to question Trayvon Martin's family attorney Benjamin Crump about the young woman believed to be Trayvon's girlfriend.
We’re told Judge Debra Nelson issued a written ruling denying Zimmerman’s defense attorneys’ motion for the judge to reconsider an earlier ruling. In that ruling earlier this month, the judge said the defense could not depose Crump because it is not necessary and would violate Crump’s attorney-client privilege with the Martin family.
The defense asked Nelson to reconsider, and allow them to question Crump under oath before the trial, based on what they say is new evidence. However, in this written ruling, Nelson is once again refusing to allow the defense to depose Crump.
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That's because she probably didn't read the "arguments and facts" in the Motion.
If she had had to sit through a hearing, then the "arguments and facts" would atleast have made it into her ears with the hope of some of it seeping into her closed mind. But we can't risk that.
Bingo. He knows his client lied, but then again, Eric Holder still has his job, so..
Yep.
This corrupt scumbag judge needs to be hammered mercilessly.
Thanks. I did mean was the judges ruling on the motion appealable under Florida law? I see as a general rule rulings on this type of motion is not appealable. Any escape clause? It seems like Zimmerman is being deprived of essential evidence. Further, the witness is not the lawyers client-is she?
The judicial version of "speeding." She knows she's not following the law, and she knows she's not addressing the legal arguments.
The argument on appeal is exactly as you state - defendant was deprived of essential evidence, therefore the conviction should be overturned.
The court is protecting Crump from giving fact testimony, on the basis that he is (intends to be) opposing counsel. The basis for granting him privilege against giving fact testimony isn't that he is Witness 8's lawyer. It's simply that he is hostile to or adverse to defendant, and because he is both hostile to defendant, and intends to sue defendant, he has no obligation to give ANY testimony in the criminal case.
That's not the legal rule, and the court would be found to have NOT applied the legal rule for piercing an assertion of privilege. The unknown point, right now, is whether or not Zimmerman will be found guilty, in part due to absence of Crump's testimony. My hunch is that Witness 8 is going to torpedo herself anyway.
Just wonder how much of a bribe Nelson is getting from Crump and Co?
This stinks to high heaven. The judge is in on the fix
Of course....this also means the defense case is falling apart
“The fix appears to be still in.”
And I’m sure those roads lead right to the Community Organizer himself.
The defense should put the judge on the spot a little and suggest that as further evidence comes to light, the judge should consider a referral of Crump to the state bar, for engaging in unethical practices.
Of course the judge would turn them down, but it opens the door wide to the possibility of legal sanctions against Crump. Eventually momentum alone could propel it to the state bar.
George Zimmerman's grandmother is or was half-black and half-Peruvian Indian. He is one-eighth black, not that the media ever mentions it. There is no reason at all to think George Zimmerman is prejudiced against black people, but that's the narrative the media created, and the judge's job is to see to it that the jurors are people who have made up their minds based on the media coverage and will ignore any contrary evidence brought out in the trial.
“This stinks to high heaven. The judge is in on the fix”
Another Capo or JINO? The judge’s maiden name is Steinberg.
Of course since George Zimmerman was attacked and Trayvon was trying to kill him, it’s really irrelevant what GZ’s racial views were before he was attacked, but the point is to make GZ appear to be a social pariah who is not deserving of rhe rights accorded to good citizens.
Given the disdain that Martin showed for the head of the white Hispanic that he was slamming into the concrete, if Martin had gotten his hands on his gun, it is more than likely that Zimmerman’s head would have suffered the same fate as the baby in Brunswick.
I’ll bet a search of the internet postings would find that this Elkins crime family were all signatories to the petition for Justice for Trayvon.
George Zimmerman’s grandmother is or was half-black and half-Peruvian Indian. He is one-eighth black
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Didn’t know that ... what do all the black folks say about “just one drop” ...
Prosecutor Bernie has a meltdown in a pleading before the court:
And take a good look at the scribbled note from DeeDee that BDLR coughed up.
The girl can spell “tragic” but can’t spell the name of her boyfriend who she has known from kindergarten.
BTW I don’t see anyone’s signature on the bottom of that scribbled note unless of course DeeDee’s name is “Thank You”.
That's a neat trick!!! According to Ben Crump's affidavit Sybrina was with him on his end of the phone.
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