George Zimmerman released from Fla. jail

[thucythucy]

86. Well, we know Zimmerman "plugged" Trayvon--

we have Zimmerman's confession to that fact, and Trayvon's dead body.

As to whether Zimmerman "just up and plugged him" -- which I guess means deliberately stalked him (certainly he was following him--despite the instructions of the police dispatcher--hence the encounter) and then shot him in cold blood, or out of some exaggerated sense of his own (Zimmerman's) danger, or whatever other motive (do the words "f-king coon" ring any bells?) we shall see.

Between the 9-11 tapes, the dead body, Zimmerman's admitting he fired the gun, the accounts of witnesses (including Trayvon's girlfriend who was on the phone with Trayvon and is thus an aural material witness) plus whatever forensic evidence there might be, I think the prosecution may well have a strong enough case to require Zimmerman to testify in his own defense. Otherwise, how will the "Stand Your Ground" defense even enter into it? In that case Zimmerman's cross-examination should be interesting indeed--assuming the prosecutor knows what she's doing.

It will all come out in time. In the meantime, one unarmed teenager is dead, with Zimmerman apparently acting as police, judge, jury, and executioner for Trayvon's alleged crime of threatening and/or assaulting George Z. The sad fact is that in order to argue "Stand Your Ground" Zimmerman will have to accuse Trayvon, and Trayvon, so sad to say, is no longer around to offer us his side of the story.

One might consider that the ultimate denial of due process and the presumption of innocence.