Everyone that is congratulating the jurors for following the Judge's instructions... psssst, c'mer

[TorchTheWitch]

68. they didn't object to most things they should have

and never bothered to either deal with it on cross or deal with it the next day with the judge. That was one of my biggest problems with Bernie... he NEVER objected when he should have and allowed the defense to get in all kinds of testimony that should never have been heard in the first place. During Rachel's testimony he might as well have been out of the room entirely. Practically half her testimony was West asking the same questions again and again that were already answered, and the JUDGE had to finally step in at one point and tell him a particular question had many times been asked and answered and she wasn't going to allow him to do it again. At first I thought I knew what Bernie was doing with never objecting - trying to make the jury feel sorry for her and think West was a bully. But watching him further through the trial it became obvious that he wasn't objecting on purpose so that the defense could steam roll all over the prosecution. That also ties in with his not addressing those things he didn't bother to object to on cross with most if not all of the witnesses and not addressing it later with the judge.

There's just no question in my mind that he threw this case on purpose. Never addressing that Zimmerman's story did not mesh with the physical evidence concerning Martin's body being so far from the sidewalk and never addressing even when they could have with the foam dummy that it was not physically possible for either Martin or Zimmerman to have been able to get to the gun if they were in the positions that Zimmerman claimed they were was inexcusable. John Guy also fell off the rails on the latter when he got on top of the dummy in never addressing it either.