[bigbob]

There you go...my expectation is Zimmerman will pay the price of a show trial to appease the demand for retribution, then sit in jail til an appeal restores justice.

[Verginius Rufus]

It may be like the (fictitious) plot of To Kill a Mockingbird: no matter how weak the case is against the defendant, the local jury finds him guilty, but the hope rests in an appeals court overturning the verdict. Maybe it will end the same way with the defendant "being shot while attempting to escape."