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Posted by Andrew Branca on July 08, 2013 558 Comments
I trust that everyone had a safe and satisfying extended (for some of you) 4th of July weekend. Today we will again be covering the Zimmerman Trial live, all day, with streaming video. Continuing commentary will be posted in the Twitter feed of selected contributors below the first video feed, and breaking news will be added at the bottom of this post. [caption id="attachment_55250" align="alignnone" width="432"]Screen Shot 2013-06-14 at 9.09.38 AM George Zimmerman, day 10 of Florida v. Zimmerman[/caption] During the lunch recess, or immediately thereafter, we will TRY topost a mid-day update. We'll then follow up with the usual detailed end-of-day wrap up, including video and embedded Tweets, at the usual time in the evening. Yesterday I posted up an analytical piece of Mark O'Mara's request for a judgment of acquittal. O'Mara's motion was well-reasoned and supported by Florida's case law. It was, of course, doomed to peremptory denial by Judge Nelson. In that piece I've linked almost all of the case citations made by O'Mara to full-length copies of the decisions, so you can see the sources for yourselves, if you like (most of the decisions are gratifyingly brief). You can see that here:

Why Zimmerman’s Motion for Acquittal Should Have Been Granted

Last Thursday, July 4, I had posted up a review of the trial to date, with some prognostication of how things may role out in the coming days. To take a look at that, click here:

Zimmerman Trial Review– How We Got Here, And Where We’re Going

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 08, 2013 7 Comments
Live video and Twitter feeds at bottom of post. If you want to mark a day when the Egyptian civil war started, this may be that day. Breaking reports indicate that pro-Muslim Brotherhood protesters -- it's unclear if just protesters or an organized armed group -- attempted to storm an army barracks where Mohamed Morsi was being held, and the army responded with gunfire killing dozens of protesters. Via NBC News:
At least 42 were killed and 322 injured in clashes early Monday near the Republican Guard headquarters in the Egyptian capital, according to a Ministry of Health source. Supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi had been holding a sit-in near the compound. Reuters cited the Egyptian military as saying "a terrorist group" had tried to storm the building early Monday. A Ministry of Defense official said that 200 people were arrested after protesters attacked the site around 4 a.m. local time (10 p.m. ET on Sunday). Some were armed with guns, Molotov cocktails and knives, according to the official. One officer was killed and six troops wounded, the military said. However, Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and its allies accused security forces of attacking protesters. NBC News was not immediately able to reconcile the differing accounts.
Updates: https://twitter.com/RagnarWeilandt/status/354240597835513856 https://twitter.com/SalmaZohdi/status/354240136826986496 https://twitter.com/nahlas/status/354239856639094784 https://twitter.com/Everywhereistan/status/354240491568644096

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 07, 2013 298 Comments

Immediately following the close of the State’s case on Friday, Mark O’Mara, the lawyer leading George Zimmerman’s defense team, stood before Judge Nelson and made his oral motion for a judgment of acquittal for his client (a parallel written motion was also submitted to the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 07, 2013 15 Comments

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Posted by David Gerstman on July 07, 2013 21 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 07, 2013 22 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2013 57 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2013 37 Comments

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Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 06, 2013 4 Comments

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Posted by David Gerstman on July 06, 2013 17 Comments

1) Debating the coup at the New York Times

Much of the editorial opinion and some of the reporting in the mainstream media has opposed the Egyptian military's forcible removal of Mohammed Morsi as President of Egypt. Actually, surprisingly, there's a debate about it on the opinion pages of the New York Times. It's surprising because the reporting of the New York Times has been skeptical of the Tamarod, the protest movement that sought Morsi's resignation. It's doubly surprising because the New York Times isn't usually known for offering a diversity of opinion. On the one side there's an unsigned editorial, and an op-ed by Shadi Hamid. But perhaps the clearest anti-protest expression came from Samer Shehata, In Egypt, Democrats vs. Liberals.
Egypt has a dilemma: its politics are dominated by democrats who are not liberals and liberals who are not democrats.
In this case, the favored democrats are defined narrowly as the group that has won an election, but ignoring how it behaved once it achieved power. On the other side are Roger Cohen and David Brooks. But the clearest anti-Morsi sentiment came from Sara Khorshid, A Coup, but Backed by the People.
Make no mistake: there is no democracy under military rule. Yet I supported the June 30 protests knowing that military rule was imminent, because Mr. Morsi’s rule had not been democratic, either. Throughout the year of his presidency, protesters who opposed him were violently crushed by the police and by Muslim Brotherhood members. He supported the Interior Ministry in its violent tactics against demonstrators and failed to investigate incidents in which protesters were killed. Journalists and activists were arrested, and the president issued an edict giving him immunity from judicial review. The presidential election, conducted without a clear legal framework, was not enough to make Mr. Morsi’s rule democratic. Despite Mr. Morsi’s constant claims that someone was undermining his efforts, his actions always seemed aimed at extending the Muslim Brotherhood’s domination of state institutions. He was in constant conflict with the judiciary, most recently with a proposal to lower the retirement age to clear the way for the appointment of his allies.
The nature of the Muslim Brotherhood seems to have been grasped by David Brooks, but not Roger Cohen.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2013 304 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2013 4 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2013 8 Comments

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