Posted on 06/30/2013 7:11:00 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
To date, the prosecution has put on a number of witnesses who also confirm Zimmerman's account of events. There's not one shred of evidence that supports the prosecution's view of the case. "Taps" should have been the background music for the key prosecution witness "Dee Dee" whose real name turns out to be Rachel Jeantel. She was on the phone with Trayvon when the incident occurred and her letter to Trayvon's mother purportedly describing the events and her deposition by the Martin's attorney, Crump, form the heart of the prosecution's case.
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It turns out the letter the prosecution relied on was written by someone else, and while Jeantel signed it she cannot even read the cursive in which it was written. The Martins' counsel choreographed her account of the events and he misled the Court about the circumstances.
The prosecution also was exceedingly unprofessional, while taking pretrial testimony from her, in having her make her statement in the presence of Trayvon's mother whom she was manipulated into "helping" by tailoring her testimony to make it possible for the state to come up with this factually unsubstantiated murder charge. The prosecution was forced to concede at trial that the witness lied numerous times and if you watch her in this exchange -- just one example of her performance -- you can see why the statements of a not very smart witness coached and manipulated to say things that are untrue rarely survive decent cross examination: She had said that she could hear the sound of "wet grass" when the tussle began. She was asked to describe what wet grass sounds like and was dumbfounded.
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I'm going by the defense attorney called the writer a friend of Rachael and Rachael said yes. Who knows if anything said in there is true. I do believe the male, down to earth, solid citizen, Mr. Good, who identified Trayvon being on top and moving his arms downward toward Zimmerman over and over.
I wonder what it takes to make that happen.
I am unimpressed with the Fl bar. It appears to me to at least tolerate, and maybe encourage corrupt investigatation, unwarranted prosecution, and rail-road 'em judicial bias.
The pressure to convict will be enormous.
Watch for the names and addresses of the jury to be leaked.
They will be told they will be responsible for the rioting and damage done if they dare to acquit. The racism pimps are not going to let this one get away.
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I fear you are correct.
“What she did was obstruct the defense, again.”
True. But she did it in front of the jury. Have you been to The Conservative Treehouse site? Really good coverage there. Virtually non-stop!
Yes. I almost daily contribute remarks at CTH, Nettles, TalkLeft and TalkLeft forums, and even schooled Hornsby on the substance of "provocation" under Florida self-defense law.
I follow CTH, Nettles and TalkLeft closely.
Hat tip to Diwataman and Tom Maguire at JustOneMinute, too. I spent alot of time commenting at JOM when the case emerged last March/April, and may take up there again depending on how my mood swings as the trial progresses. JOM has a great community of commentators. They know me ;-)
Zimmerman has already filed suit against NBC News.
"Any looting and violence will be different than in past riots because of the ability to coordinate via Obamaphone."
You're right. They first field tested the approach with groups of thugs attacking random white folks and saying they were "playing a game" of knocking people down. Then they tried it on a larger scale with flash mobs of thieves in malls and various stores. This will be the first national test in a few major cities and once the bugs are ironed out and the chain of command is in place they'll run mobs just like they did when democrat fascist "organizers" helped organize the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt.
If they achieve their goals we've seen our last election and the midterms will just be a violent example to the sheep of why there can be no more Federal elections of any sort. As Republicans in Federal office die, the King will appoint replacements and the new nobility will rule the eugenics guided nation they've wanted ever since before the Civil War.
In spite of their cooperation, black folks will be the first folks to start vanishing. They're already two thirds of all abortions and with all the diabetic and heart disease problems common to black folks it's no problem killing off those who survived abortion based on the "fair and efficient" system Barrycare is putting in place. After that they can start eliminating the people Margaret Sanger described as being undesirable, breed a reasonable number of docile white consumers and assistants, then rely on those docile folks to oversee the Mexicans and other immigrants who do the manual labor and know how to scrape and bow to the Nobility.
People forget that Rome lasted a thousand years and for most of that time had a similar system. The Eastern Roman Empire lasted another thousand years after the Western half folded even though people pretend that wasn't still Rome. That pretense helps them avoid dealing with the hard lesson of history that's painfully obvious if you realize what worked for two thousand of the past three thousand years.
That hard lesson being that most people will give up their freedom in return for bread and circuses. The nobility can grant and rescind all sorts of "rights" once the only recourse the "little people" have is rioting and violence. This country has had it so good for so long that even the "little people" don't bother to riot. Only the crowd who the Nobility keep on government plantations riot and they seldom riot without the approval of the Nobles who take care of them.
That's exactly why the Constitution had the Senate made up of people appointed by State Legislatures who could be removed and replaced any time the State Legislature wanted to remove them rather than having Senators elected by popular vote. No central government should ever be as powerful as ours became once the 17th Amendment removed the best weapon States had to fight the Federal government. How many of the people on the Supreme Court today would be there if State Legislatures still had the power to recall and replace their Senators at will? Who thinks Barrycare would have passed if State Legislatures still had the power to recall and replace their Senators at will? One "progressive" step at a time the fascist democrats have worked their way to their goal and judging by the number of people who sat out the 2012 Presidential election, they've won a total victory.
The only question that remains to be answered is whether or not anyone will take them on and rollback a hundred years of their garbage or if going along to get along is comfortable enough that no one will bother to resist other than verbally from time to time.
The myth of "democracy" has destroyed a once great Republic.
JMHO
That can only happen if Zimmerman is guilty of what he's accused of. Note I say "is guilty," not "is found guilty by a kangaroo court." If the left is trying to roll those laws back, this vehicle totally fails to move that ball downfield.
Honestly? I believe a group of 6 women could come up that kind of conciliation.
The unfunny circus going on in Sanford is a witch trial.
Sanford should change its name to Salem.
Jury I was on we took 15 because we wanted time to finish our lunch.
I’m thinking CB, for cars, handhelds and abode.
Also 3 and 4 digit codes for places, people, actions and items.
It has worked for me in the past.
Meet me at Rathole 467 was a 1352 in code.
Another way was have a few “mail boxes”, locations to leave a coded note.
Then there is using false codes.
etymology
One of the witnesses was a guy from the legal department of the phone company. I think (but do not remember precisely) that he may have testified as to the times of the phone connections between Martin and the blimp.
If a sequestered jury member were influenced by news or someone outside the jury and the judge denied a defense motion for mistrial, I think that would be solid grounds for appeal.
Defendants routinely ask for a directed verdict after the prosecution case. It would be misconduct for a defense attorney not to. They have nothing to lose.
I think there are a lot of Grounds for appeal so far!
Putting aside your snarky reference to my "knowledge", I have not heard a single comment made anywhere on this mandatory manslaughter instruction that you're talking about.
I've been following the trial coverage and editorial comments outside of the mainstream press and not a single commentator or legal analyst seems to know about this mandatory instruction. If a manslaughter conviction were possible, I'd expect that at least one of the many lawyers and judges (among them, Judge Napolitano, Alan Dershowitz, Judge Pirro) would have addressed that possibility.
Isn’t the purpose of the Bar’ “professional responsibility” arm to assure that the public is protected from unethical attorneys? What would stop GZ himself, or any member of the public, from bringing charges to the FL bar when this is over?
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