Given the evidence and Florida law, the jury came to the right decision from everything I had seen. It was one of the saddest prosecutorial cases I've seen in a long time. The DA blew it when he aired all of the tapes and videotapes. At that point, the trial was over and the judge could have declared a directed verdict and saved some time and effort.
I do think that there was a good chance a totally different verdict would have occurred had Zimmerman testified. The lies, inconsistencies, his thoughts would have come out.
BTW -- we only have Zimmerman's word that Martin said Zimmerman was going to die that night (sorry, I don't believe that for one second) and I've found no record anywhere that Zimmerman ever asked Martin where he was going. In fact, Martin asked why Zimmerman was following him and Zimmerman denied that he was.
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Army/embassy brat - traveled too much to mention
Moved here from SF Bay Area (East Bay)
"There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein
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