I know that defense can’t bring up Martin’s past (barring a misstep by the prosecution), but can O’Mara say something like this in his closing arguments:
“It is the defense’s contention that Trayvon Martin initiated the confrontation. The prosecution could have devastated our case had they shown that such a scenario was impossible, if Mr. Martin was not the type of person to do this. But they never brought in even the slightest bit of evidence showing that this would be out of character. Why not? What is the prosecution trying to hide?”
Trust me...those 6 jurors already know that MT is/was a punk and that he confronted GZ instead of going home. You just can’t wiggle out of that.