I watched as much of the prosecutor as I could before I had to leave. His basic argument about the actual fight that made Zimmerman fear for great bodily harm appears to be that, despite the witnesses and injuries, that Zimmerman, the only one bleeding, is lying.
And somehow he can’t understand why blood isn’t on the hands of a guy who was punching, wrestling, and clutching with Zimmerman. And it was raining. And the hands weren’t checked.
He can’t understand how a guy can not know a street name. He can’t understand how a pistol on the HIP can’t be reached by a hand slid along the side of one’s torso when someone is on top of you. He can’t understand how in a struggle description the statement about hands covering mouth and nose doesn’t necessarily mean 101% of the time since that struggle was ongoing. And he can’t understand how this “innocent” 17 year old ended up dead.
What I can’t understand is how he’s allowed to call Martin innocent and not have Zimmerman’s defense permitted to impeach Martin’s burglary tools, school suspension, jewelry thieving character.
I also can’t understand WHY the state is allowed to change its charges at the end of the trial, when it’s too easy to include them all at the beginning....even the stupid child abuse charge.
Perhaps some lawyer could explain these things to me. :>)
If BDLR made any claims surrounding TM's character, that should at minimum open the door for the defense to make some comments about his character in closing. It would have been better if they could introduce more evidence of his character, but any mothers on the juror should recognize that the father's calling Juvie looking for his kid means that he (the father) knows his kid was hardly "innocent".