ABC News has been given a photograph that might make the difference between life in prison and a walk. For weeks, we have been discussing the case and the application of the Stand Your Ground law. As discussed earlier, I think the case was over-charged and I remain doubtful of a conviction. This picture will likely be the single most important piece of evidence in the case. It shows Zimmerman with significant blood on the back of his head — an image that supports accounts from the scene and will be used to corroborate Zimmerman’s account of a struggle with Trayvon Martin where he feared serious bodily injury. [UPDATE: Zimmerman granted bond].
Unlike the photos of Zimmerman at the police station, this photo was taken a few minutes after the fight. Zimmerman’s shaved head could prove Godsend for Zimmerman. Had he had longer hair, the injury would have not appeared so stark.
The photo shows both cuts and a contusion — injuries that would normally be defined as serious bodily injury by many courts in torts cases where head injuries are treated as inherently potentially serious. The original police report said that he was bleeding from the nose and head and that his clothes looked like he had been in a fight. Zimmerman claims that it was Martin who jumped him, punched him, and pounded his head on to the concrete sidewalk.
The prosecutors can still argue that they do not contest the fight but that Zimmerman started it. However, with this photo, the charge of second-degree murder appears even more excessive and undermines Special Prosecutor Angela Corey’s claim that she was not affected by the political pressure to charge Zimmerman. I can understand a manslaughter charge, even with the photo, but no reasonable prosecutor would consider the second-degree murder charge as based on this evidence. Corey clearly must have seen this photo and the reports before her charging of Zimmerman.
The photo should also assist Zimmerman in his efforts to get bail.
Zimmerman, 28, is still being held on charges of second-degree murder of Martin, 17. In my view, a denial of bail would be an abuse and unwarranted given the fact that Zimmerman cooperated at the scene and voluntarily turned himself in.
Source: ABC
Matt,
Did I convict him without a trial? Did I say he was guility?
No.
Just like I didn’t call him “murderer” either.
That’s because he’s a confessed killer but he’s an “alleged murderer” until the trial is had.
You’re a terrible liar, but a liar nonetheless.
Matt,
“ELAINE – YOU ALL HAVE BEEN CALLING HIM A KILLER, MURDERER, RACIST, AND COLD BLOODED KILLER ALL ALONG THROUGHOUT THESE POSTS! LOOK BACK AND YOU WILL SEE. ALL I SAID IS THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION STATES, “INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY,” BUT YOU ALL HAVE CONDEMNED HIM!’
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Is Matty having a temper tantrum? Sheesh! Grow up! Your shouting at me will not intimidate me. Try another tactic.
You look back and then prove I called Zimmerman a “racist” and a “cold-blooded killer.”
Zimmerman admitted to killing Trayvon Martin. Doesn’t that make Zimmerman the “killer” of Trayvon Martin? Zimmerman will have an opportunity to present his case that he killed Trayvon Martin in self-defense in court.
Elaine – Good for him that he said he shot and killed Trayvon. As far as I can see you have already stamped “guilty” on his forehead. And by the way, how quick you were to label me a “racist, woman beating, less of a man” but once it’s turned around on you you don’t like it so much. What a pitty!
Gene,
Only some who have commented on this thread are “entitled” to express their own opinions and to draw their own conclusions in the Trayvon Martin case. You and I–I guess–are not among the entitled.
ELAINE – YOU ALL HAVE BEEN CALLING HIM A KILLER, MURDERER, RACIST, AND COLD BLOODED KILLER ALL ALONG THROUGHOUT THESE POSTS! LOOK BACK AND YOU WILL SEE. ALL I SAID IS THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION STATES, “INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY,” BUT YOU ALL HAVE CONDEMNED HIM!
Matt,
Zimmerman admitted he killed Martin. Good grief!
Where–in any of my comments–did I say that Zimmerman was a “cold blooded killer?” There you go again–putting words in other people’s mouths. Are you trying to make a case that those who disagree with you are biased? If so, don’t put “your” words in “our” mouths to make your case.
Gene – Did I ever ONCE say that he shouldn’t go to trial? All I said was stop saying he is guilty before you have all of the facts and before the trial is even 1/4 of the way through.
Nothing new here. Just more of Matt/Bosco’s innane bullshit about anyone who thinks Zimmerman should go to trial is anti-Zimmerman and somehow presuming him guilty. You boy(s) need to get a new act.
Very true Bosco, very true
Well Matt, as we all know there are entitlements to some not to others
Apparently there is a glitch in my last comment, ill say again.
They purposely left out that part of the accusation of being a
>COLD BLOODED killer, which could classify him or >PROFILE HIM< as a racist.
They purposely left out that part of the accusation of being a
>COLD BLOODEDPROFILE HIM< as a racist.
SlingTrebuchet – Your comment never supported anything against my quote.
Bosco – Maybe the United States Constitution is wrong too… lol
TonyC., Elaine – What happened to “a person is innocent until proven guilty?” Now all of a sudden he’s a “cold blooded killer?”
@Matt
“How do you know for a FACT that they didn’t start that investigation the same night or early next morning?”
Look at the timelines
Again (as with the timing of the “don’t need you” v the shooting)
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/20/us/florida-zimmerman-timeline/index.html
February 26th – The shooting
March 22nd: Police Chief Lee announces that he is stepping down temporarily as head of the department, which has been criticized for its handling of the shooting. Scott announces that he is appointing State’s Attorney Angela Corey
April 11th: Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder
Maybe the dumbest question here to date – “Do you deny that Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin?”
@Matt: No, I am basing my conclusion on the 911 recording, which I listened to, and on the girlfriend’s comments to ABC, which I listened to. That is not what the media has “fed” me, it is the raw evidence. If we saw a videotape of Zimmerman shooting Trayvon in cold blood, would you say that is what the media FED me? Of course not, or you are an idiot. I heard the tapes.
Besides that, it is also reported the prosecutor met with the girlfriend for several hours, and prepared charges AFTER that meeting. That is not what the media FED me, that is just a reported fact, not a fiction made up by the media.
Logic tells me that the prosecutor would not have gone forward so quickly after the girlfriend interview if the girlfriend had been lying, or was backing away from her interview with ABC. So, as I said before, what I think most probably will happen is the girlfriend will testify, and say the same thing and more as she said to ABC, and I think the jury will believe her, and think Zimmerman lied, and will find him guilty, as I think they should.
Matt,
Zimmerman killed someone. That makes him a killer.
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From The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
Definition of “killer”: One that kills.
Would you like to to provide you with the definition of the word “kill” too?
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Do you deny that Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin?
“..suspicious character in the neighborhood, although state investigators say that Martin was not committing a crime.”
You can look suspicious without commiting a crime as yet.