So Zimmerman is charged with 2nd degree murder.

[Geor!]

Defense rests.

[stevo]

The Natives will be getting restless no matter the verdict. I expect to see rioting this weekend.

Stevo

[CJ]

Are closing arguments and deliberation set for tomorrow?

[Chopped54]

The Natives will be getting restless no matter the verdict. I expect to see rioting this weekend.

Stevo

It'll take a week for the jury to reach a verdict....

[stevo]

Are closing arguments and deliberation set for tomorrow?

Closing arguments are for sure. I figure six hours for verdict on Friday, and the lootin' will be in full effect Saturday.

Stevo

[Geor!]

Are closing arguments and deliberation set for tomorrow?

I would assume so, given the time. I was shocked to hear some panelists on Hannity's show on Monday evening predicting a verdict by Thursday or Friday. Looking like it's going to happen though.

Looking forward to the highlights this evening of the witness(es) some were talking about earlier this afternoon.

[Sleeper]

I havnt followed the thread, cliff notes?

[Geor!]

I havnt followed the thread, cliff notes?

George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin in 2012.

He's on trial now.

[CJ]

I havnt followed the thread, cliff notes?

Trayvon did it, Zimmerman is the victim, Frost thinks it's a conspiracy, verdict by Friday.

[Cobraman]

Trayvon did it, Zimmerman is the victim, Frost thinks it's a conspiracy, verdict by Friday.

jury won't even get the case until Friday evening. Verdict won't come Friday.

[cyclonescott]

The Obama Justice Department organized protests against George Zimmerman

Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in February 2012.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012. According to the documents JW received, a little-known DOJ unit called the Community Relations Service deployed to Sanford, FL, to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.

Among JW’s findings:

March 25 – 27, 2012, CRS spent $674.14 upon being “deployed to Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.”

March 25 – 28, 2012, CRS spent $1,142.84 “in Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.”

March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent $892.55 in Sanford, FL “to provide support for protest deployment in Florida.”

March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent an additional $751.60 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31.”

April 3 – 12, 2012, CRS spent $1,307.40 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”

April 11-12, 2012, CRS spent $552.35 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance for the preparation of possible marches and rallies related to the fatal shooting of a 17 year old African American male.” – expenses for employees to travel, eat, sleep?

JW says the documents it obtained reveal that CRS is not engaging in its stated mission of conducting “impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution,” but instead engaged on the side of the anti-Zimmerman protesters.

On April 15, 2012, during the height of the protests, the Orlando Sentinel reported, “They [the CRS] helped set up a meeting between the local NAACP and elected officials that led to the temporary resignation of police Chief Bill Lee according to Turner Clayton, Seminole County chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.” The paper quoted the Rev. Valarie Houston, pastor of Allen Chapel AME Church, a focal point for protestors, as saying “They were there for us,” after a March 20 meeting with CRS agents.

Separately, in response to a Florida Sunshine Law request to the City of Sanford, Judicial Watch also obtained an audio recording of a “community meeting” held at Second Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Sanford on April 19, 2012. The meeting, which led to the ouster of Sanford’s Police Chief Bill Lee, was scheduled after a group of college students calling themselves the “Dream Defenders” barricaded the entrance to the police department demanding Lee be fired. According to the Orlando Sentinel, DOJ employees with the CRS had arranged a 40-mile police escort for the students from Daytona Beach to Sanford.

“These documents detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “My guess is that most Americans would rightly object to taxpayers paying government employees to help organize racially-charged demonstrations.”

Organizing such protests falls well within both President Barack Obama’s and Attorney General Eric Holder’s wheelhouses. Obama was a “community organizer” in his career prior to elective politics, a position that uses protests and street theater, along with threats, to obtain concessions from businesses and other political opponents. Holder has accused America of being a “nation of cowards” for not discussing racial issues enough. He also described black Americans as “my people” during a congressional hearing.

As the Zimmerman trial winds down, the threat of race riots should he be acquitted has risen.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/07/10/newly-released-documents-detail-the-department-of-justices-role-in-organizing-trayvon-martin-protests/

[01vnms4v]

Closing arguments are for sure. I figure six hours for verdict on Friday, and the lootin' will be in full effect Saturday.

Stevo

I really hope he is found not guilty. But, if that happens all those of color will want everything burn to the ground and those that do the looting should be shot, locked up or whatever. I am so tired they think everyone should bow to them just because of their color.

[lowthreeohz]

Doesn't prosecution get to rebut/ call rebuttal witnesses before closing arguments? haven't been watching today, had shit to do.

[racrguy]

Doesn't prosecution get to rebut/ call rebuttal witnesses before closing arguments? haven't been watching today, had shit to do.

They cross examine while the witness is on the stand, once a side rests all of the questions by each side have been answered by all the witnesses. However, before the defense/prosecution rests a witness can be called back to the stand if hey have more questions.

I hope I explained it well enough.

[David]

They cross examine while the witness is on the stand, once a side rests all of the questions by each side have been answered by all the witnesses. However, before the defense/prosecution rests a witness can be called back to the stand if hey have more questions.

I hope I explained it well enough.

Questions are limited to rebuttal only and can't be any "new" questions.

But I think they're done with witnesses. Tomorrow will be closings and jury instruction and jury charges.