Jimmy Carter: Jury made ‘right decision’

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66. I think that your speculative description fits the facts

While I think that your very speculative description of the events does fit into almost if not all of the facts of the case, I also think that this is far from how the evidence was presented and therefore quite different from any explanation that the jury ever heard.


For starters, many of the witnesses necessary to make the facts support this narrative never were called to testify.

For example Mary Cutcher, the roomate of one of the witnesses, who's testimony would support the fact that the fight started at one end of the sidewalk and moved down closer to the house that TM was trying to return to and there must have been other witnesses to corroborate that because the 911 calls came from that end of the building as the fight started and moved down the path, to where the fight came to it's tragic conclusion.


The prosecution failed to treat Serino or any of the original investigators, as hostile, and since they didn't have a chance to get Zimmerman on the stand, they really should have used Serino's initial doubts about Zimmerman telling the truth more in their presentations.

I always thought that it was important to highlight Trayvon's attempt to speak to Zimmerman at the vehicle, to show that he wasn't some kind of angry hot-headed kid, he tried to talk to Zimmerman first to see why he was being followed, George just decided not to identify himself and to say no, to TM and then to roll up his window. At least this story about TM approaching GZ at his car and asking him if he was following him is how Serino apparently told Tracy Martin, Trayvon's father that his son ended up dead. He told him there were two confrontations.

This demonstrates, that not only was TM more level headed than the defense tried to paint him as, but that after trying to be civil, and realizing that GZ was still following him, he now has more cause to be afraid. And what does a reasonable person who is afraid do, they try to flee and run away from what is causing the fear. Which is just what TM did.

I think it was a huge mistake for the prosecution not to create a self defense argument for TM to show the jury that only one party's actions that night appeared to be motivated out of fear, and it wasn't Zimmerman, he acted like a tough guy who was determined to make sure that his wrongly profiled suspect would not get away this time.


I don't disagree with this story of the events of that night and that it does seem to fit with most all of the witness testimony and even the physical evidence, but could you really expect the jury to put all of that together.

I think this verdict is a product of the prosecution failing to create arguments that could produce such a clear telling of events. I don't think they failed on purpose, but I don't know why the prosecution didn't spend a lot more time presenting their case and or arguing for both the lessor charges with the murder charge, instead of making them seem like an afterthought