MyndMy
Active Member
All fine and good but and i hate to say this cause some won't understand and say I'm repeating myself. But to express my concerns I will say that if you are the antagonist in a confrontation who is openly carrying a fire arm, if you start a fight once you pull a weapon you escalate the event. If you kill someone then you have premeditated the act of murder.Zimmerman did have a right to pursue Martin, to what end is key to the legality. Could he not pursue him if he was trying to return a wallet he saw him drop? Pursuit in and of itself is NOT illegal.
Zimmerman absolutely has a right to ask Martin a question, verbal exchange is not illegal in almost any scenario.
You are correct in that Martin had every right to tell him to fuck off. You are also correct on Zimmerman having no right to detain him, but that is just the wild conjecture of a few posters on this thread, there is ZERO evidence that documents Zimmerman trying to detain Martin, so far. That could change, obviously.
this coupled with the actual facts of this case is what most jurys will take into consideration. let us not skew our views with what they may have been thinking, or what their mind-sets where at the time.