ZIMMERMAN TRIAL: Day 4, Thursday, June 27.

[TorchTheWitch]

195. That's exactly what I think

Though I think he mostly lost them with that asinine knock knock joke. This is a serious case about a serious incident where a young man was shot and killed... making a crass joke under the circumstances was just about the most stupid and most alienating thing West cold have done unless he decided instead to pull down his pants and moon the jury.

Frankly, O'Mara is no better with the harassing of witnesses. He just does it less clumsily. He harassed every witness other than the blonde woman (and he likely didn't try that with her because she came off as not being the least bit timid or frightened of him). He badgered the Asian woman endlessly about her "left to right" testimony when clearly she hadn't mentioned it before because no one had specifically ASKED and she obviously didn't think it was an important detail to mention. By the end of that badgering he had her very close to tears. IIRC, he did the same to the black woman and also badgered her about her "liking" pro-Martin things on Facebook as if she's supposed to be as unbiased as a juror when witnesses for either side can be - and often are - extremely biased to one side or the other because of what they witnessed.

I really think the strategy of both of these defense attorneys is absolutely alienating the jurors, and I can't for the life of me see why they don't see that.