FL Attorney: Zimmerman legal team expected to request immunity hearing, could result in "game over"

[ckoeber]

138. Several clarifications need to be made ...

On what you said:

What you call 'injuries to the head' were nothing more than minor scalp lacerations, requiring no, repeat ZERO, medical attention. You can spin this all you like, but the fact remains that GZ suffered a couple minor scrapes, while TM is dead.

He was treated on the scene by the Emergency Response team.

Here is what you are missing. George Zimmerman claims he acted to PREVENT serious harm, which is the essence of self-defense.

How long should someone wait until they can retaliate?

According to the girlfriend's account of her conversation, TM said he was being followed by some creepy guy. In other words, TM claimed he was being stalked\hunted by a stranger with no legitimate reason for so doing. Are you denying that GZ was stalking TM that night? If GZ was not 'stalking' TM, then what in the fuck was GZ doing WITH A LOADED HANDGUN???

There was no question that George Zimmerman initially followed Trayvon Martin. It is his claim that he stopped after a certain point (after the dispatcher said "We do not need you to do that&quot .

As for the loaded gun, George Zimmerman has a conceal-and-carry permit. He was within legal bounds to have that gun on him and given the history of crime in the neighborhood no one would dispute why he had that gun in general.

I do see the possibility of a GZ plea (perhaps to manslaughter or negligent homicide) in return for a reduced sentence. But I see no way GZ can plausibly claim 'self defense' and expect that to fly, given what I know about the case currently.

The Prosecution is going to need a little biut more than what they have now to force George Zimmerman to take a plea deal. As it stands they don't have enough to dispute George Zimmerman's stance of self-defense.

However, and this is a big however, we have an adversarial justice system for a reason, one in which the state must prove its charges beyond a reasonable doubt before anyone is deprived of his or her liberty. GZ's defense team will probably try for a jury (assuming there's no plea) with one or more folks on it they can convince of 'reasonable doubt'.

Most cases like this boil down to the jury.