Who needs evidence when you have "judicial discretion"? Many don't believe the judge wants the responsibility or the backlash for ending this case now. She may surprise us, but she hasn't yet. Well, not in a big way like granting a JOA. I'm always surprised those rare times she sustains a defense objection or overrules the state.

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Right here.

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"That the attacker sustained a mortal wound is a matter that should have been considered by the deceased before he committed himself to the task he undertook." - 5th DCA, Stinson v. State (Fl)

I think the defense has proven that beyond a reasonable doubt. Oh wait... it was the state's case... so the state proved it beyond a reasonable doubt through the witnesses they called.

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Start a change.org petition if Rumpole won't order it!

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Chip

I love you...want to go steady?

Can anyone imagine having a romantic encounter with any of the state prosecutors? Cripes even Guy has a sinister sneer. Bet he is in to pleasing himself and not the partner.

LMAO!!!!! MoM just blew away LIMPapa's argument on GZ pulling on the hoodie when he shot TM.

4:49 p.m.
O’Mara says he never got the chance to tell Martin he was with neighborhood watch because he was punched first.

“Show me how you have proven that there is no reasonable hypothesis of innocence,” O’Mara says.

He says the state wants the judge to believe Zimmerman made a sinister decision when he changed the location to meet with police, and it was precisely at the moment Zimmerman decided he was going “hunting.”

O’Mara says there’s no evidence to support that.

He says common sense should not be ignored in a judgment of acquittal.

“Yes he shot him, there’s no question about that,” O’Mara says, but adds there is no direct evidence of ill-will.

He says there’s no evidence that at the time he shot he was the initial aggressor.

The real focus is at the time of the shot if his fear was of great bodily injury.

“All he knew was that Trayvon Martin wasn’t stopping the attack after 40 seconds of screaming,” O’Mara says.

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“Trayvon Martin sucker punched my client,” O’Mara says.

He says his client waited an additional 40 seconds before taking action to stop the attack.

O’Mara says the Leisure case had three different stories to 911. He says the facts of the Zimmerman case are much different.

O’Mara points out the non-emergency call. He says they want the judge to take the beginnings of ill-will.

He says Serino and Singleton testified that they were changes they expected, about the inconsistencies from Zimmerman.

It’s merely what happens when someone has been through two traumatic events.

O’Mara says the totality of the circumstances must be considered.

He says the state should give him credit one way or the other, but the reality is he went through a traumatic time and is dealing with it just like the Martins.

O’Mara says the testimony of Mora and Surdyka said nothing about pursuit.

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Closer to all of it, imo. I can't remember anything at all that wasn't.

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Oh look: Nelson speed-reading from a pre-determined decision denying the JOA.

Did anyone see that coming?

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I don't think my wife would take too kindly to that.

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"That the attacker sustained a mortal wound is a matter that should have been considered by the deceased before he committed himself to the task he undertook." - 5th DCA, Stinson v. State (Fl)

Prescient.

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So can her decision on this be an issue for the appeals court?

Yeah, she didn't care what was argued, she was sending it to the jury. I don't know why I ever hope for a logical and correct decision from her, maybe I just got my hopes up from the Frye decision.

Put GZ's mom on the stand. It was GZ screaming.

Poor George... Oh my... Did you see him? SMH

This is so unfair... so WRONG.

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