What you just said is horse crap. It sounds to me like you are defending Martin. I am real sure GZ punched himself in the nose and banged his head into the concrete. Have you even seen the photos? I am real sure he did that to himself. I am glad that GZ was able to do what he did. Martin deserved it. And gloctogo said that GZ didn't act like a responsible ccw holder should act. I beg to differ. I thought he did exactly what any ccw holder should have done. If we had more people that acted like GZ we would have much less crime on our streets. I thought he represented us very well.what horse crap!!! unless you were there ... you don't know what actually happened. in fact NO one knows what actually happened except for Zimmerman and the other person is dead.
how do you know M punched Z in the nose ... for all we know Z could have wacked himself in the nose and wacked himself in the head. in near total darkness none of the witnesses could clearly see what happened. not being able to prove what happened is a far cry from assuming what Z claimed happened as the truth.
there's a butt-load of inconsistencies in Z's taped testimony. Z claims M hid behind bushes before jumping him... problem is nearest bush is some 25 yards away. there was NO blood splatters found on Z despite claiming to shot M at point blank range... etc. etc... the list of inconsistencies goes on and on a....
but the bottom line is burden of proof for murder 2 belongs to state. bar rightly is pretty high... problems is it was the wrong charge. without question Z initialed the confrontation that ended up shooting M... but don't think anyone believes Z followed M with express purpose of shooting M.
if this happened in Oklahoma ... results would be completely different.
unless I'm mistaken ... it's been drilled into AS folks by cops that hang out here ... for CCW holders burden of proof shooting was justified belongs to the CCW holder.