Originally Posted by Mutt

You totally ignored Zimmerman's version of events he gave to the cops, forget about how the altercation started, it was almost irrelevant to the case, only a looney tune thinks Zimmerman went out that night to hunt down and kill a black kid. Zimmerman said the kid saw his gun while on top of him, went for it and told him he was a dead man. Zimmerman feared for his life and shot him

There were no eyewitnesses to the shooting - if Martin had been shot and lived he would have given his side of the story and the jury would have had two versions to consider and it's still possible there'd be reasonable doubt that Zimmerman committed attempted murder or manslaughter. Martin would have had to have taken the witness stand and been cross examined. If the kid didn't fuck up bad under cross examination I'm pretty sure Zimmerman would have been convicted. But as they say 'if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle'