"i would bet the house and farm that the defense injects reasonable doubt into the eyewitness account. it's worthless, especially since the police were "correcting" other people's accounts, rather than just writing down what they said."
Take a breath, UB, and catch your bearings. The "defense" here will be representing Zimmer; they have no reason to "inject reasonable doubt" about the eye witness.
The prosecutor, if there is ever a charge, is going to have a very difficult time convincing a jury of this: Did Zimmer have no reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm? He was on his back taking a beating and that fact is corroborated by a policeman and an eyewitness. If a jury cannot be convinced that Zimmer had no reasonable fear, then Zimmer walks. The best a prosecutor could hope for in a case like this is a hung jury. Now, if more evidence emerges things could change.
lol.
you still don't get it.
there are two components to what you are citing, the reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm AND having exhausted all options of escape.
if you don't do both, you do not get protection under the law. he did not do both.
reasonable doubt will be thrown into an incomplete eyewitness account from through a screened window in the dark, the police reports will be brought into question since they tried to coach others into making statements they didn't want to make.
not a single picture of any injury to zimmerman? that doesn't boast well.
you can bet there will be a trotting out of a long and pathetic history of racial imbalance in handling of previous cases.
who does zimmerman have as his lawyer? some schmuck? who will be prosecuting him? the best in the country?
are they going to put trayvon's mom on the stand, play the 911 tape, and ask her if those screams of help are form her son? you bet they will.
we already have all the evidence we need to know that zimmerman's actions are not protected under the justifiable use of force law. the trial will be the real show.
zimmerman will lose every penny he has, too. not bad.