<p>After the “Knock-Knock” joke heard around the world fell flat, the defense had nowhere to go but up. But who ever expected the State of Florida to take them there?</p>
<p>With a few distinctive yet destructive missteps, the State’s presentation of evidence in the trial of George Zimmerman provided a string of reasonable doubts commencing with the testimony of Rachel Jeantel, the young woman that Trayvon Martin was on the phone with before he was killed.</p>