walking while black - Trayvon Martin

[HairOfTheDog]

The trial will be televised, streamed, and analyzed to death on news/talk shows, so the public will get to see the whole process in action. That visibility is a very good thing in this case, imo.

That's wonderful to read & I agree with your opinion.

I hope the jury sees what I see & I saw what was presented to me in the form of news reports, whatever the police have released and the 911 call...George is the initial aggressor.

I think this is gonna be a really tough case for the jury.

But, even if the jury believes some pieces from both the defense and the prosecution sides - that George initially provoked the confrontation by following Trayvon and that Trayvon in turn was the initial physical aggressor, for example - if the state can prove beyond reasonable doubt that George did not exhaust all reasonable means before shooting Trayvon and/or that it was not reasonable for George to fear great bodily harm or death at the time, a self defense acquittal is unlikely, imo.

So much of the evidence (that we know about) to help the jury make those determinations is based on the word of the lone survivor (who may not even testify) and/or open to interpretation though.

Hoping the state presents forensic evidence that we haven't yet seen/heard which is less subjective in nature.