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Old 04-21-2012, 12:55 PM
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Default My guess is that his lawyer is know spinning stuff.
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Originally Posted by dillywho View Post
Zimmerman seems to have a problem sticking to one story. On one of the tapes he said that Trayvon turned and started toward him. That's not jumping him from behind as he now claims. Yesterday, he contradicted himself by saying that he didn't know him and thought Martin was closer to his age (he's 28)...on the tape he told the dispatcher that it was a teen in his late teens, which is what he turned out to be.

As for the "profuse" bleeding on his head from being bashed on concrete repeatedly, why has blood on the concrete not been mentioned by either side? Did the police even check to see if there was any there? It doesn't take time for a fight to be over for a head wound to start bleeding.

I don't understand why they would take one person's word for what happened before a complete investigation when the other one is dead and cannot speak for himself. One of the officers that night said that his stories didn't add up about what went down. The detective testifying yesterday when asked specifically did say that he didn't think Zimmerman had been truthful about it all.

Just because it has since been revealed that Martin had previously been in trouble, doesn't justify Zimmerman's actions that night. He did not know Martin, much less anything about him, assumed he was "on drugs or something" (his words), assumed he was up to no good because he was someone he didn't know and prejudged him on appearance, classed him by calling him a curse name (not a racial slur), and was upset when Martin tried to get away from him. Could it not be that Martin was afraid because someone he didn't know was following him and ran
It looks like Zimmerman's lawyer is trying to clean up the image of Zimmerman in the press before the trial, if it comes to a trial. Now as one of the law professors at the U of MN Law School used to say, it is who can put on the best show for the fact finder in the case. It's basically theater controlled by the judge and the evidence code. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mari-f...b_1441261.html