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blowing the trial.
I mean why would the judge allow Martin's toxicology report showing he had marijuana in his system now in the middle of the trial when the prosecution can't bring on experts to testify that smoking grass actually makes you peaceful and hungry (Martin had the munchies so he went to the store for Skittles).
If the judge allowed this then why isn't turnabout fair play? zimmerman had issues and was taking adderall which has a side effect of aggressive behavior.
As far as the defense witness testifying that he saw Martin on top, I don't give that much credence to him. Another female witness testified that zimmerman was on top. Goode stated to police at the scene that he saw Martin "raining down blows, MMA style onto zimmerman (he later recanted that in court and said he only saw "downward movement"
. That kind of lessens his credibility, especially since Martin's body still had his Skittles bag clutched in his hand. The hands that Goode said he was "raining down blows, MMA style.
I've been following this since February. . . watched the videos, followed all the news reports of the poor police procedure that night (they didn't even check zimmy's blood), read the pdf statements of zimmy and all the witnesses, all of that. The following is from an earlier post of mine of what is, I believe, a likely scenario of what happened that night:
Zimmerman initiated the whole confrontation by most likely grabbing Martin and trying to do a citizen's arrest. That's when the struggle started, they probably rolled around on the ground and zimmy's head probably contacted the sidewalk that way (not from the 20-30 head bashes zimmy alleges happened. And remember the female Med. Examiner testified that those injuries were very minor and only needed a band-aid.
zimmerman, because he outweighed Martin by 40 lbs, had superior adult male upper-body strength, plus MMA training, used all of that as leverage to come out on top where he proceeded to continued trying to restraint Martin (that would account for the "downward movement" that Goode testified to. And remember, Goode at first told police he saw the Martin on top "raining down blows, MMA style", unto the figure on the bottom. He later recanted that to just "downward motion."
But let me ask you, who would be the most likely one to end up on top in a wrestling match like that? The stronger, heavier male with the adult male upper body strength and MMA training or a slim teen with Skittles still in his hand?
Martin continued struggling, maybe even got in an upward punch or two to zimmerman's face (the busted lip photo) which enraged the volatile zimmerman (remember a former security co-worker of his told about zimmy's Jeckel-and-Hyde level of temper that he saw displayed when zimmy aggressively manhandled a female party goer at an event they worked security for).
The physically stronger and now enraged zimmerman reacted to TM's struggles, which probably became even more and more desperate when zimmerman produced the gun, by firing.
It may have been just for the satisfaction of finally being able to shoot someone, but most likely, zimmerman, with his lack of police training in stressful situations, panicked and pulled the trigger.
Result: Dead teen body with Skittles still clutched in its hand.
