In which Stoid (The Prosecutor) Cross-examines Bricker (George Zimmerman)

Just do like I do, check in once a month, and by the time your children have been born, graduated from university and gotten their first jobs, we’ll get to cross of the actual encounter.

Plus you have to grant that it’s an unequal fight. I read an article once about ping pong, of all things. Apparently this is one sport where amateurs are hopelessly overconfident of their abilities compared to the top class players. Bricker actually did this for a living, not just by watching reruns of Perry Mason.

Yes.

By that I mean both things happened. I stepped out to look at the street sign and then decided to follow Treyvon.

Towards the passageway between the two buildings.

Objection. No need to derail this thought experiment but just so you know, at trial defense would object to this to protect the record if nothing else.

Please confirm or correct my understanding of the sequence of events:

You were following Trayvon in your vehicle while he walked slowly. You saw him break into a run down the passageway marked on the map.

At that moment, you had lost track of where you were, so you left the vehicle to determine your location by looking at the street sign.

After doing that, rather than return to your vehicle, you decided to continue to follow Trayvon on foot.

So you made the decision to follow him and you headed towards the passage marked on the map that Trayvon had run to. How far did you get before you turned back, and why did you turn back rather than continue?

Stoid, I broke your link because it was hosted on a porn site, apparently, and those from work might not want that type of address in their work histories (without warning)

It’s kinda hard to be sure on satellite view, but I don’t see a street sign there.

Mister Zimmerman, As the judge has entered a fugue state from an overdose of tedious minutae, I’m joining in on the prosecution. I think I see her line of reasoning and I’d like to help. Please answer the following [del]two[/del] three, three! simple questions.

Can you tell us exactly what you were doing between 4:47 pm, Pacific Time* and 11:56 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time* 23 days before the incident? I need an exact breakdown of your location, movements, bodily functions** and all the thoughts feelings and emotions (as well as the hopes, dreams and fears) that were going through your head during that interval. Nothing unreasonable. A breakdown in 7 second blocks of time would be just fine. No need for finer-grained detail, this is a serious trial.

Please note that you’re under oath and ANY contradiction, however minute is grounds for perjury! Perjury by LYING!!!

In addition, Mr. “Zimmerman” (if that is your real name), please list the dates and times you’ve ever seen anyone in a hoodie back to when you were, say…eight years old. We also need to know your feelings each time you saw it. If it was a kindly and wise old Hispanic grandfatherly man in a hoodie, did you feel differently than if it was a sassy black woman? What if it was a woman? A different TYPE of woman? A blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aryan like yourself? How did you feel when you saw HER in a hoodie Mr. “Zimmerman”? Huh? How’d you feel then, big man?

Finally, why do you hate Negros so much that you’re willing to just murder innocent black kids to death?

You will need to complete the answers to both questions within ten minutes to move onto our exciting lighting round for fabulous cash prizes and the possibility of acquittal.
*Yes, I know you were in Florida which is Eastern Standard Time. Please don’t bog the court down with irrelevancies. Answer the question please

**You can point to this doll here to address any bodily functions you’re not comfortable talking about out loud. :: holds up Raggedy Andy ::

I think Bricker’s only chance is to put the whole system on trial!

Regards,
Shodan (who pleads Guilty By Reason of Insanity)

Yes. Except that I didn’t find a street sign.

I got about a third of the way down the sidewalk. I didn’t see him, and I figured I lost him, so I turned around and started heading back.

And that’s when I saw him.

Where? From your description, it sounds as though you saw him standing in front of your truck.

To be fair, the posters that think a real trial would be any more exciting and less tedious are the ones who’ve watched too much Perry Mason.

No, no. I got into the cuthrough, the sidewalk between the buildings, the red oval on your first map. That’s the sidewalk I mean.

And what color was the truck, hmmmmmmm?

The IBM antitrust lawsuit lasted for 13 years! Can you imagine being on the jury* for that?

*Of course it was argued before a judge, but who the hell would want to be the judge for that?

Agree. Bricker has another advantage which is that the questions and answers are in writing. He can think about the question and respond at his leisure. He has time to consider whether his answers are consistent with the other evidence and his other testimony. He can go back and read his prior responses too.

In real life, a person on the witness stand does not have that luxury. Of course lying is much more cognitively demanding than telling the truth because a liar has to think about whether the story he is telling is internally consistent.

The only way that Stoid will be able to nail Bricker is if there is a glaring contradiction in Zimmerman’s story. Or some aspect of it which is simply not credible.

Well it would be more interesting if I believed that Stoid’s questioning was going somewhere. It looks to me like she is just flailing around, hoping that Bricker will say something stupid.

Umm… yes, that would in fact be the exact point of the whole exercise. Hello and thanks for joining us.

Fine but you don’t seem to be making much headway. Of course, it’s your prerogative to play your cards close to the vest. But I kinda doubt you have any aces in there.

What you describe sounds like this - is that a fair representation of your positions when you first saw Martin on your way back to your truck?

Also, please state the heritage of your maternal great-grandma, her blood-type, who her second and third grade teachers were, who YOUR second and third grade teachers were. Also if they had hoodies. Did they wear them? Were you traumatized by them?

Also, I need you to account for Every! Single! Step you took on April 18, 1997 on this map. (note-links to a work safe map). Please describe as precisely as possible.