The Back Alley Archives

I still have my subscription to Fighting Gators (scout) and I'll post over there from time to time. Work and life has just generally gotten in the way of internet life. TT, I recommend joining facebook, if for no other reason than to keep up with everyone.

No. I can not.

And they appear to be stockpiling...

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[quote=TheTodd]I think it is really ignorant to have believed that people would riot over this decision. How many times have people rioted over decisions like this? Does that mean the police shouldn't of had a plan of just in case, no, that is their job, but to truly believe it was going to happen i...

Still able to have faith in the system

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[quote=DocZaius]Finally, jury's got it. I'm thinking that a long deliberation (i.e., over the weekend) is bad for Zimmerman. Seems like a slam-dunk not guilty to me; they might take a couple of hours to get around to it, though, just to make it feel like they didn't rush to judgment.[/QUOTE] Agreed....

O'Mara: "You should tell the State they should not EVER bring a case like this again."

Bingo.

As a prosecutor, if you find yourself spending your first closing NOT talking about how the facts fit the elements and instead talking about "what if, this" "could have happened this way", "we don't know if", etc. - you have already lost. If you are trying to evoke emot...

The morning's witness (Dennis Root)...I don't know how in the hell any of that testimony was admissible...but, it helped the defense.

[quote=DocZaius]^ Yeah, but they can show the phone number was Martin's, right? Hell, I assume that the police recovered Martin's phone at the scene, right? So they can show that he had possession of the same phone that those texts came from. I wouldn't call Precious to the stand if I wanted any acc...

really what they needed was the person on the other end of those calls/texts to testify that it was TM they were conversing with...that would be sufficient. Otherwise, all they can do is authenticate what PHONE NUMBER it came from. With that said, the crux of the defense's position was that the Stat...

Defense apparently not intending to call Zimmerman - as was to be expected after State played his statements.

I have no doubt that John Guy, Bernie de la Rionda, and Mantei are excellent people and excellent prosecutors. They were handed a shit sandwich of a case by Angela Corey and asked to make something out of it. I blame Corey for that.

God, I hope that isn't true.

State has rested. The Medical Examiner was a tremendous joke. Thank God, I don't work in that circuit. I could never call him as a witness again after watching that circus.

I think that clearly backfired for the State. *That* = putting on the college professor. Got the professor to admit that injuries not need actually occur to use self-defense. However, injuries can corroborate the fear one felt at the time. Asked if someone had to wait until "almost dead" t...

I wonder in all this class work and discussion on self defense...I wonder if in that same class they talked about not speaking with law enforcement, reporters, people in general without a lawyer?

[quote=DocZaius]This trial is a fucking mockery of our system.[/QUOTE] Just piss poor... Allowing all of this nonsense in is absurd...where is the line drawn now? As a prosecutor, can I introduce someone's NRA membership - simply to infer that he/she MAY be a gun nut? I took an accounting class in h...

The State is getting desperate now. Seeking to introduce evidence of coursework Zimmerman took in 2009 to suggest that he DID have access to Stand Your Ground Law...FUCKING EVERYONE HAS ACCESS TO IT...IT'S A STATE STATUTE. (you can find it here: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode...

More Tom Foolery - this, though, in Tallahassee. I'm sure the venue will be more than fair *eyeroll*. For context, the moderator that is listed is a local attorney (who does work for the NAACP) and who was a leading force in the push to have Zimmerman charged. The woman providing the "prosecuto...

More Tom Foolery - this, though, in Tallahassee. I'm sure the venue will be more than fair *eyeroll*. For context, the moderator that is listed is a local attorney (who does work for the NAACP) and who was a leading force in the push to have Zimmerman charged. The woman providing the "prosecuto...

Yeah, if Meyer knew there were all these problems, one has to give more credence to the theory that the inmates were running the asylum. I would like to know (and will never know): 1) how much of this goes on everywhere (not to excuse Meyer, but just to give some semblance of context) 2) he did actu...

As a prosecutor, I would be embarrassed to be playing games like this - solely for inflammatory reasons:

http://www.gzdocs.com/documents/0713/st ... nquiry.pdf

http://www.gzdocs.com/documents/0713/re ... nquiry.pdf

This morning things did not seem to go much better for the prosecution... The State has now made the decision to play all of Zimmerman's prior statements and re-enactments, as well as his prior consistent statements to his best friend. Now the State has effectively put on Zimmerman's own defense wit...

The hits (no pun intended) just keep coming...

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