Marijuana, fights, guns

Marijuana, fights, guns: Zimmerman loses key pretrial battles

Trayvon Martin's nature with weapons, his pot utilize, and battles he might have been in can't be raised in George Zimmerman's homicide trial, the judge managing the case managed Tuesday.

At the listening to two weeks preceding the planned begin of the trial, Judge Debra Nelson gave an arrangement of triumphs to the arraignment when she banned the resistance from presenting some informative data about Martin.

Protection lawyers contended that a portion of the proof could demonstrate significant in moving up Zimmerman's case of self-protection, hinging on what the arraignment contends.

Certain proof could at last be raised throughout the trial, be that as it may, provided that it is demonstrated important and permissible dependent upon what the indictment presents, the judge chose.

Accompany a no frills website of Tuesday's listening to at Hlntv.com

Nelson left the entryway open on one issue including cannabis. Resistance lawyers say toxicology tests show Martin had enough Thc --the nexus engaged element in hashish --in his framework to demonstrate he might have smoked the medication a few hours preceding the shooting. Nelson obstructed any notice of this from opening proclamations, yet said she will control later on if it will be acceptable after she catches guard specialists' testimony about the pot utilization.

Marijuana use when all is said in done can come up throughout jury determination, the judge said.

The counselors likewise can't carry up Martin's quick messages. The resistance contended that messages from the day of the shooting show the teenager was "dangerous." The judge additionally consented to square past quick messages from Martin about pills and a firearm.

Zimmerman, who is out on safeguard, did not seem at the hearing.

He's accused of second-degree homicide in the February 26, 2012, shooting. He was a neighborhood watch volunteer when he called 911 reporting "a suspicious individual" in the neighborhood, who ended up being 17-year-old Martin.

Barrier: State didn't turn over some confirmation

Nelson did concur, nonetheless, to a crux ask for from the guard: to hold a hearing on if the state neglected to turn over some confirmation.

The barrier called Wesley White, a previous representative of the state solicitor's office, who said the arraignment did not turn over certain photographs --incorporating one of a gun in somebody's grasp --and additionally some erased quick messages.

Nelson consented to subpoena the state It specialist who supposedly issued a report about the photographs and quick messages.

In any case she denied a guard solicit for a postponement in the begin of the trial. Jury determination will start June 10, she said.

Nelson additionally conceded the arraignment's movement to bar prove regarding why it took so long to capture Zimmerman.

She denied a safeguard movement asking that the jury be taken to the wrongdoing scene, and called it "guileful" in light of a different protection movement soliciting obscurity for the jury.

The legal hearers will remain unacknowledged and will be implied by their numbers just, she said.

Nelson set a hearing for Friday on if the media will be permitted to show their appearances.

Weapon, drug messages emphasize in new prove

Judge to lead on shrieking caught in 911 calls

Guard counselors likewise raised inquiries Tuesday in the ballpark of an investigation that prescribes Martin may be caught screeching out of sight of a 911 call simply after the shooting.

Voice recognizable proof specialists procured by the indictment say that they don't know for certain whose voice it is, and that there isn't sufficient sound to make an indisputable determination.

One examiner, Alan Reich, said he accepts Martin could be caught adage the statement "stop."

Reich told the Washington Post that he accepts the voice is Martin, however an additional investigator told the Post that no determination could be made.

Guard counselors said Tuesday that in a statement on Friday, Reich said he had not finished his report and might need an additional two weeks.

The guard does not need Reich's examination conceded.

Judge Nelson decided that in a listening to at the close of one week from now, the science being utilized for voice distinguishing proof will be examined, and she will confirm if it is acceptable at trial.

Provided that she affirms the science as acceptable, there's still an additional boundary for either side to show witnesses utilizing that science. When the trial starts, when either side needs to call a witness who led this examination, the judge will acknowledge if the researcher's capabilities give him or her satisfactory dexterity to make a case.

Zimmerman won't look for 'stand your ground' hearing

No gold teeth

While resistance lawyers had contended in court papers that they may need different insights about Martin conceded --incorporating an attestation that he had removable gold tooth tops --they concurred Tuesday that they don't anticipate that it will get pertinent at trial.

Nelson controlled there will be no such say in the trial.

Benjamin Crump, a counselor for Martin's family, at one time lashed out against the resistance for attempting to get such parts conceded.

"Is the barrier attempting to demonstrate Trayvon should have been be slaughtered by George Zimmerman in view of) the way he looked?" Crump asked in a proclamation. "Assuming this is the case, this stereotypical and shut minded thinking is the same mentality that initiated George Zimmerman to get out of his auto and seek after Trayvon, an unarmed youngster who he didn't have an inkling."

Zimmerman's sibling: Drop murder allegation

After the listening to, Robert Zimmerman, sibling of George, approached the state to drop the second-degree homicide accusation.

"George existed in a group tormented by wrongdoing and was the first to approach to assist his neighbors," he said. "George is a great, nice and legit man. It is presently my respect to supporter for him. George is in the battle of his existence literally. As the most seasoned offspring, the main right thing for me to do is convey him again to our guardians. The main right route to do it is by depending on truth. We are not an affluent family however we are rich in respect."

Powers at first "did their employment when they declined to accuse somebody of a wrongdoing who had perpetrated no wrongdoing," Robert Zimmerman said. "In this nation, you don't accuse somebody of any wrongdoing exclusively to mollify the concerns of deceived masses."

Daryl Parks, a different law advocate for the Martin family, lauded Tuesday's hearing.

"Without inquiry, today was an exceptionally essential day hence," he said.

"What was quite clear: All of the terrible informative data put out by the barrier group won't be proof thus," Parks included.

None of the informative data that was banished, he contended, "had anything to do" with the encounter that accelerated Trayvon Martin being slaughtered.