Meet Zimmerman’s Trial Judge: Jessica Recksiedler (Updated)

 Andybinga 

Definitely a big PLUS for Zimmerman.  I hope he get's the proper advice on this.  Like I said before.  Somewhere..  If Corey is basing her case on the evidence that is already in the public domain, then Zimmerman would be crazy to plea this out..

 mfccfl His lawyer got the investigator saying under oath that they  have nothing that disproves Zimmermans story....

 Andybinga He has a good reputation.

Zimmerman's luck: the replacement judge will be black as night.

@pbunting And therefore not capable of being fair?

 pbunting Nope. Isn't.

Hahaaaa..that she IS.

 TRama 

what are you, like 15? PIG.

Lol...I'm female and I'll admit shes the best looking Judge I've seen since peoples court.

 Raylmt 

OK, THAT got my attention..  :D

 Raylmt 

Consider that possibility that Trayvon Martin hit Zimmerman in the nose and knocked him down before the conversation had a chance to get started. 

Of course I did.Thats why I made the comment.

 Raylmt Very sad how this ended. DeeDee's statement that Trayvon asked "why are you following me?" (Insert your statement 'I'm part of a neighborhood watch...') Instead GZ is torqued ("these a--holes, they always get away..." "f---ing coon/goon/punk/cold...") This one wasn't getting away on BigBadGeorgey's watch!

This prosecutor saw exactly what the lead investigator saw that night. GZ lied.

Georges statement about the events that took place have been solid and witness statements prove it.Trayvon took off running,hid and waited til George got off the phone to confront him about following him.Police report states that Trayvon walked up to George and asked.."You gotta fkn problem?"..George said No...Trayvon said.."Well you do now" and started beating him.That makes Trayvon the aggressive one of the two.Had Trayvon went on home they would have NEVER came in contact with each other.You cant say George chased Trayvon because that just isnt possible to do without breathing hard on the 911 call.If a 17 year old has a minute head start theres no way in hell George could have run him down and caught in 1:20 seconds.Trayvon had to attack him.Trayvon just happend to pick a fight with a guy that carried his firearm around with him.There was so many burglaries in the gated community..GZ had a right to call the law,he had a right to report the "stranger" in his gated community.Trayvon was 6'2" he didnt look like a child.GZ didnt know if he was armed when Trayvon was on top of him either.I highly doubt that you would ask someones age and if they are armed while they are on top of you beating your ass before you shoot them.In Florida if someone is beating your ass and youre on your back,you have every right to shoot them in self defense. If he wanted to just KILL someone he would not have called at all.He would have just shot him and told the cops Trayvon tried to rob him if he was racist "coon hunter".He would NOT have put so much effort in staying on the phone with dispatch that long if killing someone was his intention because that simply doesnt make sense.That prosecuter has her own agenda to get reelected.Not to mention shes trying to put a 12 year old in prison for life without parole as well.BY the way..you might want to take a look at Trayvon reff'n high school street fights before you spew anything else out of your mouth.The black community is as wrong about this case as they were about the Duke case.Al and Jessie cant get paid if racism doesnt exist and thats why they love to stir up sh!t and make something out of nothing.I didnt hear either of them say they were sorry for practically convicting the Duke Students before trial and I highly doubt they will when George is aquitted.Duke students sued Al and Jessie and won.The black"kkk" panther party needs to be federally charged for putting a bounty on Georges head as well.Had the races been reversed in this case and a member of the Skinheads put a bounty on a black mans head they would have been put UNDER the jail.All you black racist.."that claim you arent" are a joke.

 tifosies He is the nightmare of any teenager in his complex that he doesn't recognize. A guy who wants to be a cop, and packs a loaded pistol giving him the bravery to follow guys he would probably lose a fist fight to.

 TRama

 martin wanted to be a cop? Because you could not possibly mean Mr. Zimmerman wanted to be a cop! He worked in the mortgage industry and did not need another job. And if you think Mr. Zimmerman was trying to be a "big man with a gun" please explain the nearly five minutes between when Mr. Zimmerman told 911 that martin was running and the fatal shot - especially when at least two of those minutes had Mr. Zimmerman still on the phone to 911 trying to make arrangements as to where to meet the cops.

What really bothers me about these idiots who claim Mr. Zimmerman "stalked" or "followed" poor little martin is the FACT that Mr. Zimmerman called 911,been told the cops were on the way, had no idea how soon the cops would arrive, yet still "hunted martin down like an animal" and shot him.

None of the Zimmerman haters have ever explained why "sweet trayvon" - if he was so afraid of the big bad white guy "following" him - didn't go ahead and run to Brandy Green's townhouse and safety. Mr. Zimmerman told 911 martin was running at about 2 minutes and seven seconds of his call - then stayed on the phone with 911 for another two minutes - even telling the dispatcher he did not "know where this guy [martin] is" toward the end of that call. Are you going to tell me now that a physically fit 17 year old could not run 70 to 100 yards in less than two minutes? .

 JuanMotie 

which is why I say that once the video of George talking to the police, unlawyered, for 5 hours, and giving a re-enactment walk through of the event, and synced up with the times on the 911 call, the Martin faction will be going "we got Brawleyed!!"

Al has never been able to pick a winner yet, why start now?

 TRama If the thugs of your generation would learn some respect, this wouldn't have happened.  

 TRama  tifosies I pack a loaded gun every time I leave the house. And I stand behind you in the supermarket, at the movies, in the park, ect, ect.

this is nonsense.

Who started making the claims that Mr. Zimmerman wanted to be a cop? It was Crump. It did not come from the Zimmerman family. That makes the claim a lie.

 tifosies DeeDee's statement is pure hearsay, that didn't even surface until weeks after (and after conversating with counselor crump).  Can we say ZERO CREDIBILITY?

 tifosies  Raylmt

 DD lied. Crump waited to hear he 911 calls to match her up with what they wanted. anyone who has a brain can think of why she didn't come sooner. once they heard the 911 tape, they matched her up with what happened (their version)

 witzkeyman Oh..if she's a witness that defense attorney will chew her up and spit her out.No doubt about it.Kids arent worth a damn at lieing.A jury will see right through that

 tifosies 

in words of the kids...."you wish"....it's the girl who lied, and it WILL come out. she didn't hear squat on the second call except "I lost him baby, home safe and sound, time for the game,  talk to you laters". That's why she didn't call anyone and say "help, help, Tray's in trouble!!"

 skeptykal_uv_everthang The prosecution will have the phone record which places the end of the call just seconds before the time of the shot. Put them all under oath and let a jury decide.

 tifosies 

This is like shooting fish in a barrel...

The prosecution will have a phone record showing a BILLED call at "4 minutes"....from 7:12 to 7:16.

Now...I am "qualified" as an "expert" in the cell phone industry (BILLING), having worked in that industry for several years. So.....spit out your gum, sit up straight and take notes. THERE WILL BE A TEST. It will count as 50%% of your final grade.

Tmobile bills in what is called "full minute increments". What that means is that any call that originates between :00 and :59 seconds of any minute is billed for a FULL minute of talk time, whether you talked 1 second, or 59 seconds.  Any call that is terminated  between :00 and :59 seconds of any minute is also billed for that full minute, regardless of how many seconds were actually used.

so....if a call shows "4 minutes" , ....let's just for the sake of randomness choose the time of 7:12 pm to 7:16 pm. that's 4....FOUR minutes.

This 4 minute billing period means that the absolute longest that this call could have lasted is 3.59 seconds. We will assume that the call started at 7:12:00 and ended at 7:15:59.  Any connection time PAST the 7:15:59 disconnect time would have GONE OVER into the next billable minute of 7:16, and therefore would have been billed as FIVE minutes, showing an "end time" of 17:17

Now conversely, cell phone companies make huge amounts of money by doing it this way, because 99.9% of the population cannot possibly start and finish a conversation at the exact top of every minute.

The absolute SHORTEST period of time that a "4 minute call" could last is....get this....you will be amazed....

TWO MINUTES AND TWO SECONDS. Which, for those of you who don't do math well, is about HALF of a 4 minute call. (Isn't that a f*ckin rip off?..but I digress)

Example:

Call starts at 7:12:59. You get billed for the entire minute of 7:12, even though you only talked once second of that full minute.

Call extends for the full minute between 7:13 to 7:14...there's one minute.

Call extends for another full minute between 7:14 and 7:15....theres another minute, and that is 2 minutes and ONE second.

At 7:15:01, the call disconnects because....oh, I dunno... someone says "hey baby, I lost him... I'm back at the house, catch you later, the game is on" and HANGS UP.

The call is still billed for another FULL minute, from 7:15:01 TO 7:15:59, because it's "full minute increment". There is your other "one second" of call that bills you for FOUR minutes, even though you only talked just a hair over 2 minutes.

Now,here is where it gets REALLY complicated.

Dan took the time to sync up the calls and put a running clock on them, FROM THE POLICE 911 LOGS.

The horrible call where the FIRST screams came in was CONNECTED to the 911 operator at 7:16:11 pm. The shot was fired at the 7:16:56 second mark of that call.

These are yes or no questions. Think carefully, review the above material, and mark your answer.

1--Did the police 911 call come AFTER the billing period of DeeDee's last call to Trayvon?

2--Did the shot also occur AFTER the billing period of DeeDee's last call to Trayvon?

Your answer is YES to both questions? Good. Then your earlier comment of "...the phone record which places the end of the call just seconds before the time of the shot.." is not at all factual, not at all true, and would so totally be laughed out of court by anyone with an IQ higher than that of a turnip, or someone whoKNOWS anything at all about the cell phone industry, or someone who actually LISTENS when someone tries to teach them something.

Cell Phone billing class is over,

 you ARE the weakest link,

buh-bye.

Bravo! Great job in laying all of that on the table, Skeptic.

 skeptykal_uv_everthang Maybe you could offer to testify for the defense ;^) for GZ (cop wannabe with a big gun, big ego, and little anger control~"these a-holes, they always get away.")

 Raylmt I don't think at this point we can say that Zimmerman "was on his way back to his car". His father claims that, but his father says they met at the T in the sidewalk and Zimmerman went down immediately. That is contradicted by where the shooting occurred, bringing the father's testimony into question.

I don't believe there is an official release of Zimmerman's statement to the police. I have heard that he says he was going back to the truck, but are we getting that only from his brother and his father?

I think you need to go read the recent post to the right hand side of the page titled.."Evidence Trayvon Martin doubled back". So I wont have to explain it.

 Raylmt There's very little "evidence" and lots of conjecture.

Especially in the media and from TM supporters against GZ

 Raylmt 

yeah....his dad even said Tray said something "what's your f***ing problem, homes""....

not confrontational at ALL...huh?

 Raylmt 

Damn well said...  I'de give ya TRIPLE likes if I could. 

 Andybinga This seems like weak grounds for recusal.  She did the ethical thing by acknowledging it, but it's a couple of degrees removed from her.  Law firms have conflicts all the time and usually that's dealt with by sequestering certain attorneys from others.  Her husband isn't going to be analyzing the case, that's not even his department; and it doesn't seem like she has any personal ties to the work that CNN will be doing.  Meh.  I'm sure people can make a big stink if they choose to, it just doesn't seem like it would actually make much of a difference in this scenario.

 AriD2385 Sometimes avoiding the appearance of impropriety is as important as avoiding impropriety itself.  In this circumstance, with her husband having a financial interest in the conduct of the case, albeit as an 'expert' for the media, the appearance of impropriety is present, regardless of whether she would actually have any formal conflict requiring recusal.

Also, looking at it from a procedural standpoint, if she fails to recuse herself, that, in and of itself, may be sufficient for an appeal by the defense.  

Yet another reason that a recusal might be appropriate: She is very new to the bench and has very limited criminal experience.  It may be best to punt the case to a more seasoned judge with more experience handling criminal matters.  I can tell you from personal experience that judges do need time to be 'broken in' on areas of law that they didn't practice prior to taking the bench.  This applies for criminal attorneys that lack civil experience, and vice versa.  

 Andybinga No Andy and Shawn. Her husband's job is NOT to analyze the case. Her husband works at the same firm as Mark Najime. Najime has been retained as an analyst. It was also Najime who referred the Zimmerman family to Mark O'Mara. So Recksiedler's "conflict" is that her husband works with someone who is friendly with the defense attorney. The criminal legal system in this part of Florida is a pretty small world, and all of these people know each other to some degree, so this is ridiculously thin. I suspect Recksiedler wants to get away from this hot potato so she can have a normal life, and O'Mara is doing her a personal favor by filing the motion for recusal. But he also must know what other jurists could possibly catch the case, and see either an advantage or at least an even-steven trade there.

 dontknowme 

tl;dr