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ZIMMERMAN TRIAL UPDATE: DEFENSE’S FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST SCHOOLS EVERYONE

Screen Shot 2013-07-09 at 9.29.55 PMIn addition to casting his authoritative thumbs-down upon aspects of the prosecution’s theories as well as parts of testimony by the prosecution’s witnesses, Di Maio proceeded to staunchly declare that due to the nature of Zimmerman’s injuries, he should have been taken to the hospital immediately by the Sanford police.  Di Maio explained how there exist numerous case histories of people who exhibited identical types of impact wounds and lacerations as Zimmerman did, who were not taken to hospitals by police and/or paramedics, and who died later on as a direct result.  Di Maio not only pointed out the severe liability to police departments which fail to bring such patients to emergency rooms immediately, but again, implicitly, to the overall mishandling of the entire matter by authorities, in terms of how Zimmerman has been mistreated and railroaded.

In cross-examination, the prosecution vainly tried to shake Di Maio from his testimony by posing flimsy possible alternatives to the way the defense says that George Zimmerman’s and Trayvon Martin’s respective actions and positions throughout the shooting incident played out, but only managed to get him to skeptically acknowledge the highly unlikely, minimal chances of their theories.  Dr. Di Maio stuck to his guns, and upon re-direct basically sealed the acquittal–that is, assuming the six jurors are alert, competent, and moral women.

If Dr. Di Maio’s turn at the witness stand closed the deal for the defense, the finishing touch was their final witness.  Mark O’Mara briefly queried a former neighbor of Zimmerman’s at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, an apparently bedridden African-American woman by the name of Eloise Dilligard, who has moved from that neighborhood since the night of the incident.  Giving her testimony via webcam and telephone, her face loomed large over the courtroom, as if offering the capstone confirmation of Zimmerman’s innocence–after some procedural answers as to her neighborly relationship with Zimmerman leading up to the incident, and the details of the whereabouts of various people and vehicles in the neighborhood that night, she replied (when asked) that she does believe the voice screaming for help on the Lauer tape is that of George Zimmerman.

As I write this, it is already getting to be late-ish evening, but court proceedings for the day are still going on.  The jury was dismissed for the day around 5 hours ago, but attorneys from both sides have been arguing about the vetting of an animated recreation of the incident produced by the defense; whether it is to be shown to the jury.  That hearing has been extremely tedious, and I confess that I still don’t know if it will be shown or not.

Right now, in the absence of the jury, there’s a guy by the name of Richard Connor on the stand, “proffering” his expert testimony.  He is some kind of expert in digital media/data recovery, and Trayvon Martin’s cell phone text messages and social media posts about him “always fighting” are being discussed.  Connor is reading aloud Martin’s ebonic texts about things such as making an opponent bleed more (more than “only his nose”) the next time he fought him.

Those of us who have studied this case closely for well over a year know that Martin’s social media trove is a gold mine for the defense, because it all paints a clear picture of a vandalizing, drug-dealing, violent thug whose rap-music hero was  “C-Murder,” and who took pictures of himself with wads of cash and with a gun, discussed buying a gun illegally, and so on.

I’m not counting on the defense’s animated recreation being shown to the jury, nor am I sure that Trayvon Martin’s gangsta-thug persona will be exposed to them in court.  But I am confident that George Zimmerman will be acquitted.  This complete sham of a case should have been over long, long before it ever even got started.

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Donald Joy

Following his service in the United State Air Force, Donald Joy earned a bachelor of science in business administration from SUNY while serving in the army national guard. As a special deputy U.S. marshal, Don was on the protection detail for Attorney General John Ashcroft following the attacks of 9/11. He lives in the D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia with his wife and son.

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