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Multiple Choice Prosecution of Zimmerman
Vanity | 7/11/2013 | Vendome

Posted on 07/11/2013 11:48:41 AM PDT by Vendome

So I tune into to the Zimmerman trial and watching the closing arguments I can't help but think this whole thing is contrived.

The prosecutor, in his closing, is presenting possibilities of theories, multiple, and asking the jury to choose from some weird buffet of the circumstances.

When you want to make your case you are specific in your accusation and theory of what exactly happened.

This is the weirdest closing I have ever seen.

When you close, in prosecuting, you claim very specifically what happened not some bland, rambling, theory.

He is presenting a variety of scenarios by inference.

There is no way the jury can come back on this and convict of the original charge.

"I don't know. You make up your mind"

"This is one possibility but, this also another possibility. We weren't there but, you decide".

"We have witnesses that place the larger person on top of the smaller person. But, we weren't there you decide".

Weird, weird, weird.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 5th; 6th; amendment; infringed
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To: Vendome
Where's Hamilton Burger when you need him?

What a joke that closing argument is.

FMCDH(BITS)

21 posted on 07/11/2013 12:05:59 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Well, I’d say, you either make sure your insurance is up to date and leave town,

or hole up with plenty of boom sticks and ammo.


22 posted on 07/11/2013 12:06:49 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

And isn’t that the whole problem with this case?

Witness after witness and each prosecutor making the case for reasonable doubt.

Fugly for its intent, inhumane for allowing a boil to fester this long without some kind of antibiotic and a severe lancing.

I feel sorry for the prosecutor. He’s just doing his job, as ordered and the whole thing is a put up.

I won’t be surprised to see him in AA in a few years.


23 posted on 07/11/2013 12:10:32 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

And isn’t that the whole problem with this case?

Witness after witness and each prosecutor making the case for reasonable doubt.

Fugly for its intent, inhumane for allowing a boil to fester this long without some kind of antibiotic and a severe lancing.

I feel sorry for the prosecutor. He’s just doing his job, as ordered and the whole thing is a put up.

I won’t be surprised to see him in AA in a few years.


24 posted on 07/11/2013 12:10:32 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome
Again, this case is a reverse of normal procedure.

The assumption of this trial is that Trayvon Martin in the defendant, George Zimmerman is the prosecutor, and all the pro-Martin camp has to do is prove that there is reasonable doubt that Trayvon Martin was a bad actor in order to convict Zimmerman.

It's inside out and upside down.

25 posted on 07/11/2013 12:11:19 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: Vendome
It may not be your method, but it is taught and used and I suspect that this may be an example. I'm not passing judgment on professionalism or effectiveness.
26 posted on 07/11/2013 12:17:24 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I'm so conservative I won't even wear progressive bifocals.)
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To: Vendome

I also was questioning the “you decide” angle. This is not Ripley’s Believe It or Not comic strip - it’s a real person’s life at stake. I hope the jury is savvy enough to see through this - but I doubt it.


27 posted on 07/11/2013 12:30:37 PM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: DannyTN

He also jaywalked. It’s on an NSA camera somewhere.
And his car doesn’t pass emissions tests.


28 posted on 07/11/2013 12:33:13 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: PLD

The prosecutor is not boring. He is an idiot. I like the candy comment.


29 posted on 07/11/2013 12:34:08 PM PDT by QQQQ
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To: Vendome

The judge in that case is a most incompetent shill for the prosecution. She should be disbarred. If she could charge Zimmermann for being out after dark she would. After some of these high profile cases, one can assume that the Fl. judicial system needs an overhaul, but it won’t happen.


30 posted on 07/11/2013 12:34:32 PM PDT by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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If, as the writer says -

“I don't know. You make up your mind”

“This is one possibility but, this also another possibility. We weren't there but, you decide”.

Isn't that automatically “reasonable doubt”?

31 posted on 07/11/2013 12:34:33 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: Vendome
The prosecutor, in his closing, is presenting possibilities of theories, multiple, and asking the jury to choose from some weird buffet of the circumstances.

This is a classic "reasonable doubt" tactic - lawyers do it all the time. The prosecution is simply throwing out a whole bunch of implausible speculations in the hope that the collection of ideas as a whole might seem plausible. The total package of evidence clearly proves that George Zimmerman lawfully defended himself, and the prosecution is trying to introduce some doubt into that conclusion. Fortunately for Obama's side, federal pressure has flipped the trial, and Zimmerman's side is required to prove innocence beyond a reasonable doubt.

32 posted on 07/11/2013 12:40:53 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
This gives us til Thursday, Friday to plan for the civil unrest, which I hope to God doesn’t happen.

I pray it doesn't either, but if it does, shoot to kill! Any looters/rioters caught alive should get a public whipping with TV cameras looking on.

33 posted on 07/11/2013 12:44:50 PM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: Pollster1

And isn’t that demonstrable of what is wrong in this prosecution?

He is making reasonable doubt arguments.


34 posted on 07/11/2013 12:49:05 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome
I’m surprised that the judge hasn’t decided to force the defense to give their summation before the prosecution.
35 posted on 07/11/2013 1:02:15 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Vendome
The prosecutor, in his closing, is presenting possibilities of theories, multiple, and asking the jury to choose from some weird buffet of the circumstances.

Doesn't he just have to show that there is some reasonable doubt as to his innocence? /sarc
36 posted on 07/11/2013 1:05:35 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Sopater

/s

LOL


37 posted on 07/11/2013 1:48:39 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: molson209

Consider the Florida appellate court rulings during the Bush/Gore election dispute.


38 posted on 07/11/2013 2:04:12 PM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: Vendome

No, he is not doing his job. That is why this is getting worse by the day.

As the old saying goes “The teachers don’t teach, the managers don’t manage, and the bumbs are the only ones doing their job”.

He must be guilty of something or they look like fools. Can’t have that can we.

Maybe he feloniously double parked.

Regardless of the outcome this will not end for a long time and nothing good will come of this. IMHO.


39 posted on 07/11/2013 2:35:40 PM PDT by glyptol
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