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Emanuel burgess, who was this one-person crime spree through retreat view circle who got five years in prison for his bevy of burglaries in that area. you were the sentencing judge in that case when he came before you about a year and a half ago. so, yeah, an unfortunate circumstance. that doesnt allow the outrageously over response by mr. martin. sticking to the ill will and hatred argument, basically in the light case, it was just not ill will because the courts looked to two other cases for t...

Thompson 5527224. thats an aggravated battery case where he tried to stop a fight, was attacked. defendant backed up, brandished a gun. aggressor continued to approach. defendant shot him. and that was where the court reversed the conviction on that, suggesting that the judgment of acquittal should have been grant ed. the hernandez/ramos case, again cited in jenkins, gives some good insight into a similar fact scenario. in that case, evidence was there that the defendant took some effort to ward...

Thats state versus ellison. 19. and -- im sorry, your honor. thats sigler, 805 second 32. i mention those cases because they were the high-speed cases, factually different from this case but interesting because in both of those cases the defendant, one, had just escaped from prison. another had stolen a car, i believe, were high-speed chases, 80, 90 miles an hour, running through intersections, running over curbs, running through toll booths and just acting about as outrageously as you can act i...

Close. jenkins was in his house. a guy was outside making a lot of noise. he went outside. jenkins tried to minimize the altercation. the eventual victim in the case made a maneuver towards him, punched him in the face, wobbled back goes jenkins. then the assailant comes again. jenkins takes out a knife, catches him in the heart, he passes away. jenkins, the case, as opposed to the facts, is very significant. jenkins goes through and cites about seven cases, which is the recent history of judgme...

When you run into somebody and kill them, thats not ill will, spite, and hatred. theres no, in effect, transferred intent from when you act as outrageously negligent as you might act to steal a car and do 80 or 90 miles an hour through a crowded area, running people out of the way and then finally killing somebody, thats not ill will, spite, or hatred. so i mention those for that purpose. another case, state versus ellison -- im sorry. that was one of the two i just mentioned to you, your honor....

Words that i said about the whole case is quite instructive. it allows for no other determination that since my client has now presented self-defense through the states case, but it is now affirmative evidence of why he acted in the way he acted, that since the state cannot exclude a reasonable hypothesis of innocence based upon their circumstantial evidence, that the judge should grant acquittal. thats under walker. walker also cites woods. its the woods case which also cites another supreme co...

We have one eyewitness in this case, john goode, i think, would present a scenario very similar to that presented by the state witnesses in hernandez/ramos. that is that we know and it is completely uncontroverted that mr. martin was the aggressor in that he had mounted mr. zimmerman, refused suggestion by mr. goode to stop doing what he was doing and continued the attack. similar to hernandez/ramos, the states witnesses in that case suggested that the victim in the case was aggressor. again, th...

Its reasonable hypothesis of self-defense what it is and specifically contradicted by the states case. under walker, woods, barwick, and now stieh, they have failed to do that. so if we look at stieh, which is interesting, out of the second dca. i dont know that i quoted it. i apologize if i have already. stating that the joh should have been granted once the defense had presented a prominent case of self-defense. it goes to a pretty good analysis of 776. in that case they were talking about def...

Court to be an innocent bystander and that belamy mav reached out and decided to start stabbing people, including this guy, there was no ill will or hatred found in that case either. they mention this that case, particularly cite a number of cases with the proposition that you really -- ill will and hatred almost always and only comes from people who know each other before the event begins because it is almost impossible for that ill will and hatred to grow so quickly in the middle of a fray or ...

Issue of the circumstantial evidence and the direct evidence, what exists, and whether or not my client has presented a case of self-defense. i think that if you reach that alone, then the case should be dismissed presently at judgment of acquittal. as i said a moment ago, we dont -- i cant say, judge, can i stop and let you rule and ill start over it you dont, so i have to continue as though youre not following my first track and ill go to my second track and the second track is whether or not ...