Self-defense is tough to establish since one person is dead and there were no witnesses to the killing. Bruises to the back of the head and the nose could be real or could be self-inflicted to make it look like self-defense after the killing and before the police arrived. No one knows as there were no witnesses.
Whatever the verdict, one "side" will be unhappy and will say that justice was not served. Whatever the verdict will be, Zimmerman's life changed forever when he killed Martin - he will either be in prison or will have to spend the rest of his life hiding for fear of retaliation.
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