“OMG!Bernie makes the point that TM was present at the shooting and HE was not able to make a statement.””
I’m tired of him repeating that there was no blood on TM’s hands! It was raining, TM was lying prone, and the blood washed off in the wet grass? Geez...hope the jury has some common sense.
Besides, with the bumbling ME, TM could have had blood on his hands, and Bao would not have reported it. He has no memory.
No blood on the hands doesn’t surprise me in any case. The Nose was hit on the very first punch. It does NOT start bleeding on impact. It starts bleeding afterwards.
Zim says there was some kind of press on his nose action from Martin. BUT, tThere were also a number of ground and pound punches after that, and my guess is that they were to the head in such a way that they slammed the head into the concrete.
So, Martin’s hands were very busy hands, and only one of them hit Zim in the nose. I’d speculate that it was his right hand, since most folks are right handed.
Any additional punching in face and body of Zimmerman would have wiped any blood from nose off of Martin’s hand that punched Zim in the nose. In fact, any pushing, shoving, striking, slapping of Zimmerman in a ground and pound would result in lots of blood spots on Zim’s outer garment. Guess what? Lots of spots of blood on Zim’s outer garment.
AND, the nose doesn’t begin bleeding on contact. Left alone, it drips with gravity. But, to get it elsewhere, it has to be smeared or spread by someone/something else. That would be BOTH Martin and Zimmerman.
Finally, didn’t I hear someplace on one of the days that someone cleaned up Martin?
During Bao's testimony, he was asked by defense attorney if he tested for shirt fibers inside the wound. Bao said he didn't have to because he already knew how it all went down. So yes, there could have been blood on Martin's hands, but they never checked for it.
Basically, instead of gathering evidence and then reaching a conclusion, this team reached a conclusion, and then gathered only the evidence that would support that conclusion.