George Zimmerman Seeks Anonymous Jury

Talkleft ^ | May 9, 2013 | Jeralyn Merritt

[Cyber Liberty]

I gave up a lot of interest in this story when Zimmerman’s attorney decided not to try SYG immunity. It doesn’t matter how the trial goes now, without civil immunity Zimmerman is financially ruined and I can’t bear to watch.

Mara sold him up the river for a mess of pottage.

[Uncle Chip]

What is the sense in filing for an immunity hearing if the judge has told you month after month in her adverse rulings that she is not going to grant anything favorable to the defense much less immunity. You have to present your case first and the prosecution gets to see it and can sandbag evidence and that makes thing worse for you at the subsequent trial. O’Mara made the right decision on the immunity hearing — given that they are in front of a hanging judge.

[Uncle Chip]

But I suspect that BdlR contrived that irony deliberately to payback or coerce the Defense for its pursuit of Crump.

Yep -- and I can't wait for Nelson to rule on BDLR's Motion to depose her. For her to order the deposition of Shellie while at the same time protecting Crump would be doubly damning -- especially with a writ in front of the DCA.

[Chewbarkah]

This is not on-thread, but I have been wondering how common it is in Florida for the State’s Attorney to indict someone for murder directly, bypassing a grand jury. Do you recall any discussion of stats about this when the indictment was first made? I bet it is a rarity.

Jurors for this trial might presume that there had to be evidence against GZ to get this far. They need to be disabused of that notion, and given to understand that the State knew a grand jury would never indict GZ for defending his life. Since there is no logical explanation, anything BdlR tries to sell will just deepen the hole. The jurors need to be angry with the State for putting GZ and them through this farce.

[Uncle Chip]

No I don’t know. But this case is certainly proof that all such cases should first go to a grand jury first bypassing the wallabies.

The Motion to visit the scene should be interesting especially now that the defense has some cell tower ping logs on Martin’s phone. Those logs will likely show that Martin never went to the “mail thing” as DeeDee claimed — another infamous DeeDee lie.

Note in this walkthrough that GZ parked at the clubhouse and TM just walked right by. He didn’t go there at all. I’m sure the cell tower ping logs will show that — and more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX1sxARNq_c

One way or another I think this tape will be entered into evidence. Meanwhile the prosecution has nothing but spends its time harrassing Shellie.