Zimmerman's 6th amendment rights (to an impartial jury, to be able to confront witnesses against him, to have compulsory power for obtaining witnesses in his defense) are likely to be shredded if what we have seen so far continues--his lawyer hasn't been able to get a complete and intelligible tape of Dee Dee's allegations.
No matter how well O'Mara demolishes the case against Zimmerman, I'm afraid a lot of the jurors will base their verdict on the initial media reports rather than what they hear at the trial.
This shouldn’t get to a trial. It should end in an April Immunity hearing.
Dershowitz has recommended that O’Mara ask the court to dismiss the NEN call as irrelevant since the only incident that matters took place after that call ended. He makes a good point and that takes a whole lot of irrelevant speculation off the table.
This judge knows the law. It is quite clear. If Zimmerman was not doing anything unlawful, and if he had the right to be where he was, and if he was assaulted and under continuous assault until he fired his weapon, then this judge has no other choice than to grant him immunity and end this charade. Failure of her to do so should lead to immediate appeal of her ruling and dismissal.
6th amendment rights? That’s so far down the list, no one even remembers what it is anymore.