[Polynikes]

“All Martin had to do was tell Zimmerman that he was a guest of his father's girlfriend, and there would have been no escalation to violence. Zimmerman may not have believed him, but that would have been an easy question to solve — by either walking together to her residence, or calling her.’

That brings up a point that I have wondered about. Where is this girlfriend? I would think that she would be being paraded around, giving statements like “Martin was staying at my place” “I invited him to stay and he is so nice” etc. It would lend quite a bit of credence to Martins’side. Her absence is puzzling.

[justlurking]

That brings up a point that I have wondered about. Where is this girlfriend? I would think that she would be being paraded around, giving statements like “Martin was staying at my place” “I invited him to stay and he is so nice” etc. It would lend quite a bit of credence to Martins’side. Her absence is puzzling.

That's a good question. I think there's some uncomfortable truth here: Martin was sent by his mother to live with his father. I think it happened after he was suspended.

And then his father sent Martin to stay with his (father's) girlfriend -- which apparently shouldn't be confused with Martin's girlfriend on the phone.

What's up with that? Why was he being shuffled all over the place? Did his father not want to leave him at home, unsupervised?