So as Trayvon was screaming for help in those last seconds

[BootinUp]

obviously because he did not have the advantage in the altercation at that point, how is it that Zimmerman is fearing for his life? I mean he WAS the only one armed with a deadly weapon. Just wondering how any judge can interpret that differently.

[SteveABG]

1. Zim's lawyers

Will try to attack the analysis, and call it "experimental technology" or something along those lines.

Whether they will succeed in that argument or not remains to be seen.

[seattleblah]

2. Guns are not experimental!

Damn lawyers always lie.

[slackmaster]

4. No, that particular voice analysis will never see the light of day in court

It was the product of a newspaper "investigation."

[SteveABG]

6. true

But they will say that about any that prove it isn't him.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. SYG: it doesn't matter.

These laws are just an open invitation for murder. Zimmerman "felt threatened". His defense need only establish enough plausibility to convince one or more jurors to not convict, and that is assuming he ever gets arrested and his case goes to trial. So far there has been no arrest.

[auburngrad82]

5. I think at this point there will be a ton of circumstantial evidence

If the prosecutor can find more examples of Zimmerman going ballistic on people, like he did at the underage drinking party a few years ago where he threw the young woman down and injured her because he "snapped", the prosecutor might be able to convince the jury that the man is unstable and that he lost control when he shot Trayvon.

We have several cases of Zimmerman snapping:

Domestic abuse charges against his girlfriend
assaulting an undercover police officer
throwing the woman to the ground at the party

If they can pile these on, and combine them with the video evidence debunking his broken nose and bashed head, and the eyewitness accounts saying that Trayvon was not attacking him, maybe there will be justice.

On the other hand, if his granddad is a former CIA agent who may have pulled strings to keep Georgie out of jail we might never know why they might let a killer off the hook.

Only time will tell, I guess.

[-..__...]

8. INAL, but I don't belive...

prior confrontations with the law, arrests or convictions can be brought up during trial.

Prior convictions can be taking into consideration at sentencing.

Domestic abuse charges against his girlfriend
assaulting an undercover police officer
throwing the woman to the ground at the party

[COLGATE4]

9. I doubt if Zimmerman's prior acts of violence

will ever see the light of day in court. The Prosecution is prohibited from introducing them, unless the Defense really f---s up and makes Z's character an issue (which any decent lawyer won't do). Prior bad acts from a Defendant are generally inadmissible unless they can be shown to be part of a 'pattern' (which requires that the previous bad acts be more than substantially similar to the act in question). Z's don't, so don't hang your hat on this fact to help put Z away.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

7. Zimmerman wasn't fearing for his life .

and the circumstantial evidence will back that up.