Speed (may I call you Speed?), how much evidence do they have? Not even enough circumstantial evidence.
Is he "guilty"? I don't know. Is he "innocent"? I don't know. Will he be acquitted? Likely.
Originally Posted by austin_voy
Let me see -- someone is dead and Zimmerman shot him. Zimmerman says he was "standing his ground". Very possible. Yet how did Martin, who Zimmerman out-weighed by quite a bit, get Zimmerman on the ground? If Martin beat Zimmerman's head into cement a number of times, how did Zimmerman get up and why didn't he need medical treatment after the attack? Was there blood on the cement? If Zimmerman was beaten as badly as stated, there should have been some evidence of that. Did Martin's body show any signs of being in an altercation? As I said, Zimmerman was not a small man and Martin's body should have had some marks on it after such a fight.
Martin was shot at "close range" according to reports. What is "close range" and when did Zimmerman shoot Martin? Don't know if any tests can be done to show approximately what the distance was. If Zimmerman shot Martin while on the ground, self-defense is a very real reason. If Zimmerman shot Martin from a number of feet away, a "standing his ground" defense is harder to prove.
There is a tape which has a recording of what went on during the altercation. Two experts have stated that the voice yelling for help was definitely NOT Zimmerman's. Since they have no voice recordings of Martin, they could not compare the voice yelling for help against Martin's voice, but they did say it sounded like Martin's voice. Both Martin's mother and girlfriend (okay, not exactly unbiased witnesses) say it was Martin's voice.
Will Zimmerman get acquitted? Very possibly under Florida's "stand your ground" law. I will be happy to see the case come to trial and
ALL the evidence come out. I certainly think there are many questions that need to be answered before Zimmerman is a free man. Whether or not Zimmerman can be proven guilty of murder, there is no doubt that Martin is dead because of Zimmerman's actions which never should have been started.