The court will consider his statement to be self-serving. The SC has declared that it is assumed that anybody will lie to mitigate responsibility or punishment. I do not take his statement as fully truthful.
“The court will consider his statement to be self-serving.”
The jury may find it persuasive, especially if it never changed and jives with known facts. That’s why they have defendants testify, when they do: because their stories can be persuasive.
“The SC has declared that it is assumed that anybody will lie to mitigate responsibility or punishment”
Well, duh. No one needs men in black to tell them that. The point is that Zimmerman’s account of the events is important to establish his credibility, and that’s paramount in a case like this where the defense won’t merely deflect the prosecution but will assert a positive case in the form of Zimmerman being immune due to his having killed in self-defense.