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Tommy_Carcetti

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12. I honestly don't know if that's been precluded.

Reply to Captain Stern (Reply #11)

Tue Jul 2, 2013, 10:44 AM

Jul 2013

I don't think it's necessarily inadmissible, but the defense could have objected to it as prejudicial and the court may have chosen to exclude it.

But I don't know, exactly.

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Was the zimmerman homemade video permitted in Court? [View all] FarPoint Jul 2013 OP

Someone posted that the prosecution actually introduced the video. FarPoint Jul 2013 #1

The video was made by the police. Captain Stern Jul 2013 #2

I'd like to know if Sanford Police do such video's FarPoint Jul 2013 #3

No idea, but I assume they do them as part of any murder investigation, when possible. Captain Stern Jul 2013 #4

Let me assume then since we can at this point, FarPoint Jul 2013 #5

The video demonstrates several leaps of logic needed to believe Zimmerman Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2013 #6

I think the Prosecution allowing the video to be shown... Captain Stern Jul 2013 #7

Serino's a fact witness, not an expert witness. nt Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2013 #8

I'm not an expert, so I'll take your word for it. Captain Stern Jul 2013 #9

Well, except for the little point where he wanted to charge Zimmerman. Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2013 #10

Is the prosecution allowed to ask him about that? Captain Stern Jul 2013 #11

I honestly don't know if that's been precluded. Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2013 #12