Originally Posted By: Pariah
This prosecutor is a fucking dirt bag. Every half second is an over-dramatized logical fallacy and mocking repetition of Zimmerman's remarks. I hope beyond hope this jury can see how full of shit he is.

Do closing arguments usually go on this long?




"ARMPITS! ARMPITS!"

That just sounded ridiculous. The prosecutor shouted and made a lot of noise, but his alleged pattern of "lies" from Zimmerman were ultimately just so much speculation and tea-leaf reading.
For example, that Zimmerman couldn't remember the name of the street where where Trayvon was, and walked out to look at the street sign to give to police. Later when Zimmerman spoke to police, he was able to list the name of the street. Well, there are streets a block from where I live that I used to know the name of, that I would (after years of not looking at the signs) have to read the sign to identify. And later when he was able to identify the street easily to police, it's because he'd just looked at the sign a few hours prior during his 911 call, and at that point it was fresh in his memory. Not at all illogical or difficult to explain.

Ultimately it comes down to this:
  • Zimmerman followed Trayvon from a distance to identify him. I've followed people, and been followed, and that is not a crime.
  • Physical evidence shows Zimmerman was assaulted, had a broken nose, two black eyes, and lacerations to the head, indicating he was assaulted.
  • Police on the scene immediately after reported Zimmerman's back was wet with grass stains from being on the ground.
  • A Witness identified Traayvon Martin as on top punching Zimmerman "ground and pound", "MMA" style.
  • Autopsy of Trayvon Martin showed no bruising signs that Zimmerman had punched him. Only on his knuckles, where he had punched Zimmerman. Evidencing that Trayvon did all the hitting, and Zimmerman did all the defending.


Put together, they overwhelmingly support Zimmerman's account of what happened. That he was taking a heavy beating from Trayvon Martin, and while he may not have been on the edge of death, if he had allowed Martin another 5 or 10 or 20 punches or slams into the sidewalk, he might have lost consciousness and ended up crippled or dead. And under those evidenced circumstances, he acted reasonably to defend himself.

The rest was just the prosecutor's smoke raised to cloud these facts.