This is going to come down to Z not having a reasonable escape, his self-defense defense holds up and he walks.
For him to be convicted of Manslaughter if I have my legalese correct: he only needs to show "lawful justification" which between phoning in the suspicious activity to the NEN and given the wounds he sustained, and given his hands do not have as much as a scratch on him, he won't be convicted of Manslaughter either.
This never should have went to trial, what a waste of money.
I agree that Z probably walks, but this was not an accident. So there is enough evidence to try to send Z to jail, for the killing of this kid. You may not agree with the evidence and I even agree it is probably not enough, however if my son was killed walking home, I would want the DA to go after the guy that killed my kid.
Just for the fact that Z started this mess, Just like Z's family would be wanting Martin put in jail if the roles were reversed.
It would be a more in interesting case if Martin was the one who killed Zimmerman. If the guy on top beating the guy on the ground ends up shooting the guy on the ground, self-defense might be a little harder to swallow. But even then,
the fact that a gun was present in a fight between two people who don't know each other from Adam, it becomes a life or death situation for both parties. It still baffles me why anyone does not see this as a cut and dry self-defense case. This case is a waste of tax payers money and was driven by the race-baiters.
Zimmy brought the gun to this party...hence his responsibility for the outcome .It was self defense and the guy who had to defend himself is dead . I would be 100 % behind Zimmy if this whole incident happened at Zimms truck...not a hundred or so yards away. If i saw a black bear walking in the woods behind my house and decided to go looking for it armed with a rifle and it attacked me in the woods ,thats MY fault....all i would have to do was stay in my house and call the cops and let THEM handle the bear. Im not comparing Trey to a wild bear , im saying in zimms case this is the same mind set. Dont go looking for no trouble and you wont find no trouble.
Trayvon shouldn't have attacked someone he didn't know in the middle of the night in a state where it's legal to carry a firearm..
If you're walking in the forest, and you find a bear following you, if you turn around to confront it, and punch it in the face, when it was obvious you could have safely found your way home and gotten inside and locked the door, and you could have called the police on the way rather than talk to some girl on the phone, that's not the bears fault for having teeth..