[FateAmenableToChange]

I’m all for thinking about both sides of the story. The problem is that your presentation TM is simply noncredible. Your own post had to back TM up five years in age to pretend that he was anything other than the street fighting druggie gangsta thug that his Facebook, IMs, school records, and all the other evidence shows he is.

You paint the question of why he didn’t go back to his family’s house as something to wonder about. The creep circled around to confront GZ. There’s no innocent conduct here. And even if this was just a stupid kid who made all the wrong choices that night, that doesn’t change the fact that GZ was justified in believing that TM meant him death or imminent bodily harm.

[CottShop]

[[that he was anything other than the street fighting druggie gangsta thug that his Facebook, IMs, school records, and all the other evidence shows he is.

You paint the question of why he didn’t go back to his family’s house as something to wonder about. The creep circled around to confront GZ]]

And htat is precisely the point- the kid was nearly home, but mostl ikely htought he was gonna get ‘whitey’ and make a name for hismelf- mostl ikely, the more he thought abotu beign followed, the angrier he became, until he made the fateful descision to try to teach ‘whitey’ a lesson (perhaps even murder him, and later claimign self defense if he could manage to do so- his gansta name woudl then be ‘legendary’ o nthe street forb havign stood up to ‘
whitey’

This is all conjecture of course- but it’s a very likely scenario- I can picture martin steaming with anger as he’s beign followed- seethign with anger until he thinks in his own mind that he can make a name for hismelf if he can murder this dude following him-

This kid was a wanna be gangster- thsi was his opportunity to ‘prove his gangsta-ness’ and he took it- only he foudn out he shouldn’t have the hard way

[[that doesn’t change the fact that GZ was justified in believing that TM meant him death or imminent bodily harm.]]

Exactly- WHENEVER soemoen smashes your head into a hard object- even just once- you can safely and rightfully assume that htey are tryign to murder you as hard objects agaisnt hte head brign about death tiem and time again as proven out by facts- You do NOT need to wonder whether they are tryign to murder you- your answer is YES- they ARE tryign to murder you- it is NEVER right to smash someone’s head agaisnt ANYTHING- NEVER

Hopefully omarra makes htis point VERY cleasr to the jury-