I would think it would be impossible to find an impartial jury at this point for a retrial.
It would certainly be impossible to exclude the phone contents again in a retrial, and the jury selection process favors the defense so a tainted jury would likely be tainted in Zimmerman’s favor.
Conviction is now or never.
Right. The very first ground for appeal is the circus atmosphere of media deceit, hype and exploitation which deprived Dr Sam Shepherd of a fair trial in Ohio v Shepherd. This case made F Lee Bailey famous. The “media circus” got Sam an acquittal after jury found him guilty of killing his wife.