| | | Disorder in the Court! Judge throws hissy fit, storms out of Zimmerman trial
Jul• 10•13
bob-owens.com
The State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman took a turn for the absurd late Tuesday evening, as defense attorney Don West got in a heated conversation with Judge Deborah Nelson, just before 10:oo PM, after Nelson seemed to sound her intend to block testimony and evidence recovered from deleted messages on Trayvon Martin’s cell phone.
A forensic expert discovered more than 600 items on Trayvon’s cell phone, including texts and photos between Trayvon and other people, with specific references to criminal activity, particularly fighting, drugs, and firearms.
What was interesting is that everyone in the courtroom seemed to have a very specific idea of who that “someone” who deleted the evidence was, but were very careful not to say who.
The forensic expert, Conner, testified that he recovered multiple conversations between Trayvon Martin and specific family members and friends (Levondrea, “Diamond,” which is one of Rachel Jeantel’s names, etc) discussing multi-round street fights and schoolyard fights in which Trayvon Martin had participated. Martin’s half-brother, Demetrius Martin, even asked Trayvon when he would teach Demetrious how to fight like him. Everyone in Trayvon Martin’s family seemed to know Trayvon was a street fighter.
Even worse, Conner found multiple conversations—between 4-6—where Trayvon attempted to buy black-market guns, including a Smith & Wesson Sigma pistol and a .38 Special revolver, and one conversation in which he discussed trying to sell a .22 revolver, suggesting he was already in possession of it. On of the participants in one of the gun conversations was a Fulton, possibly a relative on his mothers side. All of these conversations took place immediately in the days and weeks before Trayvon Martin left Miami for Sanford.
The reason these conversations were hidden until recently—other than allegations of withholding of evidence by the prosecution that will apparently be hashed out after the trail—is that the deleted texts were created by a password protected hidden app that was designed to beat police surveillance by hiding data and data types as different kinds of files than what the cops would look for.
This is important to the video we are about to see, so make sure you grasp the following:
- Trayvon Martin’s phone was password-protected. The password-protection comes on automatically after being left unattended for a certain amount of time.
- The “stealth” app designed to further conceal Trayvon’s conversations about weapons, fighting, drugs, and pornography had an additional layer of password-protection. He had to log into the phone first, and then to this app, to access these conversations or delete them.
- There were thousands of messages, texts, photos, tweets, Facebook posts and other bits of evidence in Trayvon’s particular, tortured form of Black Vernacular English (BVE) that correspond across thousands of messages. The 600 deleted-but-recovered messages referring to his criminal behavior were in this same uniquely identifying syntax.
- People who participated in these conversations are all documented by screen name, real name, phone number, social media personas, etc. They are all easily identified and deposed, if the defense is given time to do so.
- The State hid this evidence until right before the beginning of the trial, when the Prosecution’s Wesley White came forward to present testimony the State was hiding and may have destroyed evidence, meaning the defense has had no time to recover this data and depose every witness as they should be able to do, as a basic matter of giving Zimmerman a constitutionally fair trial.
So by this point, we know Trayvon’s phone was used by him alone, had multiple levels of security, had very incriminating texts, Facebook posts, and pictures, all creating the picture of a violent young thug on the cusp of becoming involved in major deadly crimes, more than likely involving gun-play. We know exactly who took part in these conversations, by name, and that the defense hasn’t had a chance to talk to them because the prosecution was busy destroying evidence.
And that gets us to this showdown between an incredulous Don West, who can’t believe the what he’s hearing, and Judge Deborah Nelson, who throws a hissy fit, gives a judicial “talk to the hand,” puts the court in recess, and storms out of the court as the defense is still trying to talk to her.
Perhaps Nelson is being a “good judge” and is merely “staying bought,” but she’s certainly infringed upon Zimmerman’s Constitutional rights to a fair trail by not allowing the defense to depose witnesses, and she’s set up grounds for an appeal and possible reversal if Zimmerman is somehow convicted.
When all is said and done, Nelson may be joining a long case of people being reviewed by the Florida Bar for their behavior in this case, which only seems to get stranger and more outrageous at every turn. |
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