Defense Begins Closing Arguments in George Zimmerman Murder Trial in Death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FL … “I call this case the bizzaro case, turned all upside down.” (VIDEO-LIVE FEED)

George Zimmerman defense closing Arguments:

The defense team began their closing arguments this morning in the George Zimmerman murder trail in the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. Defense attorney Mark O’Mara told jurors that prosecutors had not proven Zimmerman’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Instead the prosecution has based their case upon a series of hypothetical premises and assumptions. O’Mara then told the jury that, “If it hasn’t been proven, it’s not just there . You can’t fill in the gaps. You can’t connect the dots. You’re not allowed to.”

From the outset this case has been a “bizzaro” one. The prosecution has had so little evidence, so little absolute, irrefutable witnesses, recordings, videos, or any evidence what-so-ever to make a murder case or manslaughter for that fact that they have acted like the defense in trying to poke holes in the Defense theories and evidence, rather than proving beyond a reasonable doubt that George Zimmerman was guilty. Some how the standard for the prosecution and defense has been flipped in this case, because the State’s case is that weak.

Attorney Mark O’Mara told the jury in closing that the evidence in the case is factual evidence for George Zimmerman.

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O’Mara showing the jury that the Prosecution has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt

George Zimmerman’s defense attorneys began closing arguments at his second-degree murder trial in Florida on Friday by asking jurors to use “common sense” while considering evidence in the neighborhood watch volunteer’s fatal confrontation with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Defense attorney Mark O’Mara pleaded with the all-female, six-member jury to not “fill in the gaps” or “connect the dots” while considering a verdict in the case. O’Mara said Zimmerman, 29, acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Martin on Feb. 26, 2012.

“You can’t help but have a first impression,” O’Mara told jurors, who could begin deliberating later Friday. “What you have to do is be vigilant, diligent in deciding this case.”

Attorney O’Mara went on to say that the “evidence in the case only proves Zimmerman’s “pure, unadulterated innocence. He’s not guilty of anything but protecting his own life.”

UPDATE I: Tweets.

July 12, 2013 Tweets
https://twitter.com/jeffweineros
Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 25s
O’Mara: “If you don’t know it, it hasn’t been proven… can’t connect the dots for the state attorneys office in this case.” #ZimmermanTrial

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
O’Mara on reasonable doubt: “It’s a very, very difficult standard.” Adds: “Assumptions presume a lack of evidence.” #ZimmermanTrial

https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection
Andrew Branca, LOSD  @LawSelfDefense
#zimmermantrial O’MARA: If it hasn’t been proven, it’s just not there. You’re not allowed to fill in the blanks.

https://twitter.com/jeffweineros
Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 32s
O’Mara: Reasonable doubt can come from lack of evidence, or conflict of evidence. #GeorgeZimmerman doesn’t have to prove anything.

https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection
Andrew Branca, LOSD  @LawSelfDefense
#zimmermantrial O’MARA: Because burden is on the State. Want to take someone’s liberty, State has to prove it.

https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection
Andrew Branca, LOSD  @LawSelfDefense
#zimmermantrial O’MARA: “How many what-ifs from State? They don’t get to say, what-if, they have to prove beyond reasonable doubt.”

Andrew Branca, LOSD  @LawSelfDefense
#zimmermantrial O’MARA: “I call this case the bizzaro case, turned all upside down. How many could-have-beens have you heard from State?”

For more updates, tweets of the case, read others comments and provide your own, go to Scared Monkeys Forum: George Zimmerman Murder Trial.

Mark Levin Slams the George Zimmerman Trial, Says … “The Man Should Never Have Been Charged, It was Self Defense” … Judge Nelson Has Been “Nothing but a Disgrace!”

JUSTICE, OR WINNING AT ALL COST?

Conservative talk show host Mark Levin slams the George Zimmerman trial from the stand point that when you look at the country as a whole, there are more important things than the day to day antics of the trial. However, his comments on the trial are mainly on the impact from a societal point of view. Levin’s point is … this man [George Zimmerman] should never have been charged. It was self-defense!!! When you are attacked, you are attacked, end of story. You are free to defend your self if you believe your life is being threatened.

Levin stated, “this case from day one has been about race  baiting and redefining George Zimmerman’s race.”  Honestly, who had ever heard of a “white” Hispanic prior to this case? Levin went on to say that the prosecutors literally have no evidence in this case against Zimmerman. Levin went on to say that this case stunk from the high Heavens from the outset. We had the removal of the Chief of Police Bill Lee, the demotion of the lead investigator and the insertion of a special prosecutor. Then some how we get second degree murder charges against George Zimmerman in which he should never have been charged with. They were going to have a trial, hell or high water.

Listen to Mark Levin’s comments, they are spot on.

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Hat Tip – The Right Scoop

Closing Arguments Begin in the George Zimmerman Murder Trial in the Death of Trayvon Martin … Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda Blames Zimmerman’s Assumptions (Live Video Feed)

The closing arguments began in the murder trial of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda said to the jury that George Zimmerman “tracked” and then shot Trayvon Martin instead of waiting for police to arrive because he made the wrong assumptions and profiled Martin as a criminal.

From CNN:

“A teenager is dead through no fault of his own, dead because a man made assumptions and acted on them, unfortunately, because his assumptions are wrong, Trayvon Benjamin Martin no longer walks on the earth,” prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda said as he opened his argument.

“He profiled him as a criminal. He assumed certain things, that Trayvon Martin was up to no good. And that’s what led to his death,” de la Rionda said.

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Trayvon Martin is dead because George Zimmerman “tracked” and then shot Trayvon Martin instead of waiting for police to arrive, prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda told the jury at Zimmerman’s murder trial.

De la Rionda, presenting the prosecution’s closing argument, accused Zimmerman of taking the law into his own hands during their February 2012 confrontation. De la Rionda asked the six-woman jury to use “your God-given common sense” and find the former neighborhood watch volunteer guilty of second-degree murder.

UPDATE II: https://twitter.com/jeffweineros

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 43s
BDLR: #TrayvonMartin “was minding his own business” but #GeorgeZImmerman decided “he was up to no good.” #ZimmermanTrial

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR: #TrayvonMartin went to store, bought Skittles & Arizona drink. “That was his crime.” #ZimmermanTrial #GeorgeZimmerman

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 2m
BDLR: But in this case, #GeorgeZimmerman “profiled him as a criminal… and that is what led to his death.” #ZimmermanTrial #TrayvonMartin

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR: #GeorgeZimmerman pursued, didn’t wait “for the police to come & do their job.” #ZimmermanTrial #TrayvonMartin

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR: #GeorgeZimmerman called cops, “then he followed him, he tracked him… in the defendant’s mind, this was a criminal.” #ZimmermanTrial

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 37s
BDLR: Focus on “what she said #TrayvonMartin said, and isn’t it consistent with the evidence?” #ZimmermanTrial

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR stressing Jeantel’s lack of “sophistication,” asks jurors if they’d disregard her because of that. #ZimmermanTrail #GeorgeZimmerman

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR: Why mutter “assholes” line, “other than that’s how he feels?” Mentions ill-will, hatred. #ZimmermanTrial

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR plays #GeorgeZImmerman’s non-emergency call, “These assholes, they always get away.” Doesn’t it show “what he was feeling at the time.”

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 47s
BDLR: I’d submit, “that there was a fight, there was a struggle.” #GeorgeZimmerman is “the one that’s had MMA traning.” #ZimmermanTrial [editors note, isn't this remarkable that the prosecutor would make such a comment that only George Zimmerman knew how to fight when it was Judge Nelson who unfortunately and I believe incorrectly did not allow Trayvon Martin’s texts messages on his double password protected cell phone that showed that Martin had sent texts about all of his fighting.

https://twitter.com/KBelichWFTV

Kathi Belich, WFTV ?@KBelichWFTV  1m
E6 is not taking notes now.. After taking notes the entire trial. Others are taking some notes. #Zimmermanon9

Kathi Belich, WFTV ?@KBelichWFTV  1m
The state wants to put a good spin on Rachel Jeantel’s lies about her age, going to the funeral and the changes to her story. #Zimmermanon9

Kathi Belich, WFTV ?@KBelichWFTV  27s
Juror E 40 is leaning her head on her hand. #Zimmermanon9

Kathi Belich, WFTV ?@KBelichWFTV  1m
Juror B 29 is avoiding eye contact with the prosecutor. She’s in the front row. #Zimmermanon9

UPDATE II: So far the prosecutions closing argument has been poor and weak.

For more updates, read comments, provide your own and continual Tweets of the accounts of the closing arguments, go to Scared Monkeys Forum: George Zimmerman Murder Trial.

Zimmerman Attorney Don West Loses his Mind at the Prosecution For Introducing Third Degree Felony Murder Child Abuse Charge … Tells Court, ‘This Was A Trick’ (UPDATE: Judge Disallows Third Degree Murder Child Abuse Charges)

This morning the State dropped a bombshell that smelled to the high heavens as they tried to sand bag George Zimmerman and the Defense team with a last second underlying lesser felony of third degree murder child abuse charge.  UNREAL! Defense attorney Don West blasted the prosecution for their tactics and called it nothing more than a “trick”. West states to the Court, “This is outrageous “. Judge Nelson recessed the court for a number of hours in order to allow the defense to prepare for the change in charges the jury will be allowed to consider.

George Zimmerman’s prosecutors want to add lesser charges for the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, including manslaughter and third-degree murder, possibly because they’re worried he’ll be acquitted.

In the state of Florida, third-degree murder doesn’t require proving that Zimmerman acted with some sort of “ill will” or hatred. The new charge, however, does need a felony-basis. In a surprising move, the prosecution argued Zimmerman committed child abuse as the felony required for third-degree murder.

Richard Mantei, one prosecutor explained, “When one commits … child abuse, and the child dies — the child being defined as a person under the age of 18 — that can constitute felony murder in the third degree.”

From Mediaite:

“This is outrageous,” West said. He asked Judge Debra Nelson to recess the court for a number of hours in order to allow the defense to prepare for the change in charges the jury will be allowed to consider.

RELATED: BREAKING: Zimmerman Judge Rules Prosecution Can Include Manslaughter Charges Over Defense’s Objections

“It’s just hard for me to imagine that the court could take this seriously,” he noted, observing that the court had not been provided sufficient time to prepare for this change in charges either. Nelson dismissed this objection saying that the late introduction of requested materials has been from both the prosecution and the defense has been a regular feature of this case.

West protested again that this instruction was emailed to him only this morning, but it was obvious that the state had been preparing the background to support the additional charges for some time.

“Really?” he asked. West indicated that Angela Corey, attorney in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit Court who presented the initial second degree murder charge against Zimmerman, apparently “approves” of the state’s maneuver.

“It’s not fair to me, it’s not fair to Mr. Zimmerman, or Mr. O’Mara, or the court for this to happen like this right now,” West said.

UPDATE I: Judge Debra Nelson disallows the State’s attempt to charge George Zimmerman with the ridiculous charge of Third Degree Felony Murder Child Abuse. Judge Nelson stated that the evidence did not warrant the charge.

For more updates, read tweets, reason others comments and provide your own, go to Scared Monkeys Forum: George Zimmerman Trial.

Justice? Ex-Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee Says He Was Pressured By City Officials To Arrest George Zimmerman in Death of Trayvon Martin Even Though He Already Cleared Him Of Any Wrongdoing

So much for the US Constitution, its now about mob rule. So this is how we arrest individuals and administer justice now for a crime in a Banana Republic United States?

Former Sanford, Florida Police Chief Bill Lee told CNN in an interview that he was fired for not arresting George Zimmerman. According to Bill Lee, he was pressured by city officials who cared more about appeasing the public, rather than if George Zimmerman was guilty.  The city officials just wanted an arrest and did not care whether the US Constitution was followed or not.  Lee told the officials you can’t arrest without probable cause, and was fired for upholding Zimmerman’s constitutional rights.

“The police department needed to do a job, and there was some influence — outside influence and inside influence — that forced a change in the course of the normal criminal justice process,” Lee said. “With all the influence and the protests and petitions for an arrest, you still have to uphold your oath.”

“That investigation was taken away from us. We weren’t able to complete it,” he said.

From CNN:

The George Zimmerman investigation was hijacked “in a number of ways” by outside forces, said the former police chief of Sanford, Florida.

Bill Lee, who testified Monday in Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial, told CNN’s George Howell in an exclusive interview that he felt pressure from city officials to arrest Zimmerman to placate the public rather than as a matter of justice.

“It was (relayed) to me that they just wanted an arrest. They didn’t care if it got dismissed later,” he said. “You don’t do that.”

When Sanford police arrived on the scene on February 26, 2012, after Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, they conducted a “sound” investigation, and the evidence provided no probable cause to arrest Zimmerman at the scene, he said.

It had nothing to do with Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law, he said; from an investigative standpoint, it was purely a matter of self-defense.

Was the fix in from the beginning to railroad George Zimmerman from the outset and get their pound of flesh from Zimmerman, no matter what? So this is what passes as “justice” in the United States? We now have mob rule and the over all riding factor is that Zimmerman be found guilty to prevent race riots, rather than the rule of law. So let’s appease the Black panthers rather than provide a defendant their Constitutional rights. UNREAL.

Yup, this is what happens when you get race baiters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and a liberal media whipping the public into a frenzy and cry “RACISM”. The Gateway Pundit shows even more judicial bias as Judge Nelson inappropriately goes after the defense and George Zimmerman in a bullying tactic.

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