Serious mistakes have been made by Zimmerman. When you are facing charges like this you have “NO Advocates” except for your Attorneys. Not the police, not the media, and not even nicely dressed conservative talk show host with great hair, and definantly not those reading your comments on your new web site. Talk To Nobody without your attorneys present. Too many people think the Miranda Rights are meant for the guilty. That is dead wrong.
Zimmerman should have watched this video
Don’t Talk to the Police. In praise of the Fifth Amendment Right to Not Be a Witness Against Yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
First of all, sure about that?
Second, Mr. Zimmerman fled the country.
I understand what you're saying, but in this particular case I think you're wrong.
Cooperation with the police, to some degree and in some circumstances, might help an innocent person who has been hauled in for questioning.
An innocent person tends to want to cooperate. This can be a positive in the police evaluation of the situation. Clearly, the police evaluated George Zimmerman and decided he was being honest in his story, and let him go.
An uncooperative person OTOH can make police suspicious and more willing to charge. Sometimes police will charge an obstinately silent person just to show who's boss. This is not good, but sadly it tends to be human nature.