The sad truth is if he really did shoot two blacks in self-defense he wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance of getting a fair trial.
That, or if found Not Guilty by a jury he, a free man, would thenceforth nevertheless indelibly have been tatooed with the Scarlet Letter, the larger society’s separate verdict of guilt, appropriately so in the case of Orenthal James Simpson, tragically and wrongly so in the case of White Hispanic George Zimmerman.