JackFrost!! You will become our resident expert!!
What was an incredibly ignorant thing to say.
I am actually embarrassed for you.
No he wont MaggieD.
The fact that he can't get the evidence and what it means straight now, clearly shows that he wont be able to get it straight later.
No, he's not going to walk.
You do not know that.
In accordance with the evidence he should be found not guilty.
I sympathize with him, and even I would want to find him guilty of something.
How sad that you want to find a person who acted in self-defense guilty of something. That is real sad.
But for Zimmerman's actions, Trayvon Martin wouldn't be dead.
Sure, but for Zimmerman acting in self-defense to save his life, Trayvon would not be dead.
But for Trayvon's unprovoked attack, Trayvon would not be dead.
He, however inadvertently, precipitated Martin's death by his own vigilantism. (I use that term loosely as a adjective and not to say that he was wrong in what he did.)
No mater how you intend to use the word, it's use is wrong.
Zimmerman was not acting as a vigilante.
reach for his cellphone. Martin (or anyone who was being followed) could rightly have been frightened that he was reaching for a gun.
There is so much messed up about this opinion, it is pitiful.
Simply reaching into one's front pocket does not look like a person is going for a gun.
Nor is there reason for Trayvon to think a person who he came out of hiding to approach and confront, is reaching for a gun. None.
Trayvon came out of hiding to, and was in the process of his, attack. He clearly intended to hit Zimmerman and did so when he got up to him.
Zimmerman reaching into his pocket meant nothing to Trayvon.
He doesn't have to wait for the gun to show itself before he can defend himself...which is what I think he did.
Coming out of hiding, confronting and immediately striking is not acting in self-dense.
It is an attack. Not defensive.
Zimmerman is going to do jail time.
In accordance with the evidence he should not be.
But with Juries being what they are, it will either be a not-guilty verdict as it should be, or hung in his favor.