Both sides have rested in the George Zimmerman Trial, and I have listened to all the witnesses, questioned by both the State and the Defense. Included in all, I listened to George Zimmerman's statements, stress voice analysis, written statements and reenactments.
Although the public was privy to seeing parts of the animation created by the Defense, of which, is not in evidence, but can be used in closing and the "oops" moment when the State brought in the dummy, so State Attorney Guy can get on top of the dummy, leaving a very visual moment for the jurors to picture Trayvon on top of George.
As when O'Mara had his moment with the dummy, he also illustrated being on top of the dummy again showing the jurors Trayvon on top of George.
Sadly the jurors were not able to see Trayvon's cellphone texts with his back and forth conversations regarding a fight his lost in the first round, but won the second and third round and basically wanted more, he wanted to make this person bleed. Nor where they able to see the texts about selling guns or wanting to buy a gun when he gets to Sanford.
The Defense did not bring in that Trayvon had marijuana in his system, and not sure why they didn't, but I figure it was to be respectful to the parents.
The only part that I can consider regarding Trayvon is that he played football. Football players are trained to be able to defend themselves, stop and tackle another player. They go through daily routine work-outs on the football field pushing a heavy dummy on a track to build up their stamina.
I will say this though, should this be a hung jury for whatever reason, all that wasn't in evidence, is now public information, and has been made available for everyone to read or watch.
Now, where do I stand with my verdict regarding George Zimmerman. Since the decision has to be made solely on the George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin confrontation and whether George shot Trayvon in self-defense. In order for me to do this, the call has now ended with the dispatcher, and George started to head down the walkway in that open area behind the townhouses looking for an address to give the police when they call him when they arrive in the community.
In the meantime, while George is starting to go back, Trayvon is still on his phone with Rachael Jeantel telling her that George is getting closer, and it is known that George didn't see Trayvon just before he ended his call with the dispatcher, as George was concerned about giving his address to the dispatcher.
Now Trayvon, according to the State and Defense, was about 348 feet (116 yards) from the apartment where he was staying with his father and girlfriend. All that Trayvon had to do was stay right where he was and let George continue back to his vehicle, and at that point, George would have waited for the police to arrive, and Trayvon could have slipped into father's girlfriend's apartment, close the door, and it would have been a "moot" situation, because by that point, no one knew where Trayvon was any longer.
However, that didn't happen. Trayvon came out from hiding and came upon George, and while Trayvon was still on the phone with Rachael, asked George "why was he following him or what is your problem?" It is known that one voice was deep and had an angry tone, according to one of the witnesses, and the other voice was soft tone with a higher pitch,
As soon as George responds to Trayvon, although NOT heard by Rachael, if I recall correctly, Rachael then hears a bump. Now we know Rachael softened the word to "bump" since she used "punch" earlier in her deposition and I believe, but not 100% sure used it on the stand.
It is very obvious based on George's face and nose, based on Rachael saying she heard a bump, Trayvon punched George in the face and knocked him down on the ground.
Rachael claims she heard "wet grass", but we all know she actually meant that she could hear perhaps shoes or snickers sliding on the wet grass. Now Rachael stated she also heard "get off, get off", and I'm not sure she did, but if she did, they that would be George telling Trayvon to get off of him, because Trayvon is on top of George.
George had stated just as Trayvon confronted George, George put his hand in his pocket looking for his cellphone, but the phone was in another pocket. Remember, George was telling the dispatcher that Trayvon had his hand in his waist band at some point.
Of course we all know about the end with the Skittles & Arizona can of juice, but you can't put them in when deciding because at the moment, George may have thought Trayvon was packing a gun.
We also know George had a gun and could have taken out his gun and held Trayvon there until the cops arrived, However, there was no reason in those few seconds before the punch to hold Trayvon at gun point.
Once Trayvon punched George in the face, Trayvon attacked George, threw the first punch and now George was placed in a position to fight back. However, George is not a fighter, but Trayvon is, but again, I can't consider Trayvon's other fights.
With George on the bottom, and no injuries at all to Trayvon's face by scratches from George, or punches to Trayvon's face by George, it appears that all George was trying to do, IF, he did anything at all was protect his face from any further blows to his face, or perhaps try and protect his head from being pounded into the concrete, all by the abrasions on the back of George's head.
It is very clear to me that it was George screaming for help, and with the fear in George's voice, with people actually coming outside for seconds, George knew no one was going to help him. Once the shifting of hands and body during the one sided fight, George's gun became exposed. Once the gun was in view, it was a split-second decision that George took the gun out and shot Trayvon.
As an "in-home" juror, taking out that Trayvon was a 17 year old black male, and George a Hispanic adult male, there was a confrontation, started by one individual with the punch to the another individual, and in the end, Trayvon died.
My verdict would be "not guilty."
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