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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
In the end, Zimmerman decided to pull out his gun and fire it point blank at Martin, killing him. Zimmerman unnecessarily put himself into that situation, and his actions unfortunately led to the murder of another man.
There were no life threatening injuries to Zimmerman.
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As much as zimmerman is at fault here for the whole event, I have to look at the possibility that
at that moment in time zimmerman, rightly or wrongly, thought himself to be in grave danger. It's such an instant, natural physiological sequence of chemical reactions that there is no calm, measured thought process, and obviously zero knowledge of whether you may or may not receive life-threatening injuries.
Zimmerman acted like a douche wannabe, and created everything that led to the shooting, *but*
in that moment I can't say 100% he knew his life was not in danger. Which is why I'd go with a not guilty of murder, simply because it's literally impossible to prove otherwise. As the law stands (UK/USA nuances aside), doubt is there, which = not guilty if I was on that jury. Nothing else matters as to who started what, who threw the first punch, etc - for this case; it'd be a different story if martins was the defendant here - zimmerman did not intend to murder martins with his initial actions, so it all boils down to what happened during the fight only. Imho, of course.