<p>I know for sure if I ever shot and killed someone I would lawyer up as fast as possible getting an experienced criminal attorney. Zimmerman was an idiot talking to cops before talking to a lawyer.</p>
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<p>Exactly. There are undoubtedly moms on the jury. Of course, George Zimmerman is someone’s son, too.</p>
<p>“Zimmerman was an idiot talking to cops before talking to a lawyer.”</p>
<p>Idiotic behavior pretty much sums up his whole night.</p>
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<p>Our first vote was 9-3 for the defendant. It took 10-2 to have a verdict. One of the three jurors for the plaintiff immediately asked that we re-vote. Although we were able to get 10 minutes of “discussion” when that juror pushed it to a vote, he switched his vote and we came out to announce the defense verdict in under 3 hours.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth:</p>
<p>[The</a> Quote that May End the Trayvon Trial - Esquire](<a href=“http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/trayvon-martin-trial-quote-police-interview]The”>The Quote that May End the Trayvon Trial)</p>
<p>Agree GZ’s behavior was idiotic, but also arrogant. I think GZ (inaccurately) saw himself as clever, and maybe smarter than the police he was trying to convince. Seems he believed he would “get off” as he had in the past. I do believe his father played a role in bailing him out, and may have contributed to GZ thinking he had more “authority/power” than he had.</p>
<p>Re: For what it’s worth:</p>
<p>Yes, they were good questions. But it’s generally acknowledged that GZ made consistently bad decisions that night. His responses during interrogation were simply an extension of that IMHO.</p>
<p>GZ seems to have behaved idiotically not just that night, but his whole adult life. He does not seem like the sharpest tool in the shed. He does seem like a product of his family, with an openly racist brother and father. Here are some gems from his brother…</p>
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<p>I did think the defense attorney’s response was good.</p>
<p>[Reporter</a> Says Robert Zimmerman ?Agreed? His Tweets About Trayvon Were ?Racist In Nature? | Mediaite](<a href=“http://www.mediaite.com/tv/reporter-says-robert-zimmerman-agreed-his-tweets-about-trayvon-were-racist-in-nature/]Reporter”>http://www.mediaite.com/tv/reporter-says-robert-zimmerman-agreed-his-tweets-about-trayvon-were-racist-in-nature/)</p>
<p>I do pick up a strong undercurrent of arrogance, too…both in his self-appointed vigilantism and his father’s publication of a book that purports to know the true story of what went on.</p>
<p>mini: WOW.</p>
<p>I was happy to see that the officer who interrogated him was so level-headed.</p>
<p>from mini’s link;</p>
<p>In Zimmerman’s angry mind, without trial or jury, even after he killed him and learned he was a 17-year-old who was legitimately staying in the complex, Martin was an ******* victimizing the neighborhood.</p>
<p>What was the provocation for punching you other than you were following him?” another officer asks.
By this time, Zimmerman is losing his patience. “I’ve gone through it a million times.” Despite his passion for justice, repeated questions about the death of a 17-year-old boy at his own hands annoys him.</p>
<p>Arrogance. Where was his remorse?</p>
<p>This too is telling:</p>
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<p>Esquire knows how to lay it on thick but that was quite dramatic. Three days after he killed an innocent person, his mind was still caught up with the supposed criminals that he was trying to stop. Wouldn’t at that point, you say to yourself, OMG, what have I done? I assume that is admissible in court.</p>
<p>^exactly ttparent</p>
<p>from same link;
Soon after, the interview devolved into pleasantries. Zimmerman says he’s taking his wife to the beach for the weekend, and the lead officer asks, “Which beach?”</p>
<p>he was not seemingly traumatized by killing an innocent 17 yr old. this speaks to GZ’s character.</p>
<p>There’s no remorse in this article. </p>
<p>I can’t imagine killing a 17 year old kid and having no remorse. </p>
<p>Has he seemed remorseful at any point in this process? He seems to have a story in his head, grounded in no reality at all, that HE was the victim here.</p>
<p>Any of you posters killed anyone you know of? How are you supposed to act afterwards? </p>
<p>I seem to recall that “she went partying” was an argument for proof that Anthony killed her child. I seem to recall that one juror specifically mentioned that she rejected that there was a “right way” that everyone reacts to anything.</p>
<p>That is not fair. We know because that is how most people with a tiny bit of humility would feel. No one said, it is proof, but it goes to his state of mind. You of all people should know.</p>
<p>his website seeking support and money struck me as the ultimate in seeing himself as a victim. I could not understand why people sent him money. there are so many just causes to contribute to, but GZ? His perception of self as victim was only reinforced.</p>
<p>…and because in our current sad state of affairs in this country, there are people who not only agree with him but who also are willing to send money for his defense against the “libs” and the “apologists for black thugs” and those who want to “take our guns away.” This, even though GZ has a history of racist behavior, domestic violence, assaulting police officers, and sexual assault of a family member. But yeah, HE’S the victim here.</p>
<p>(xposted with lindz)</p>
<p>07 Dad. I personally believed that the fact that she went partying was questionable. But I’m pretty sure whatever happened with Anthony was an accidental death and a bad reaction to an accidental death. I’m not even sure Anthony was there, based on the evidence I saw and I watched that trial. She is a bad actor, but I’m not sure she is a murderer.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that this guy put a bullet through the heart of a young man. I suspect he absolutely needs to keep Martin a “bad guy” in his mind in order to continue the story he has in his head about his law and order role in life. </p>
<p>This goes back to why this is a horrible law. Zimmerman himself needs protection from this law and the story he can tell himself about following a kid home.</p>
<p>as a mental health professional who has worked with people who have harmed others, even if by accident, it is common to ruminate over one’s actions, cry, isolate, sometimes to the extent that they can’t function, let alone go the beach.</p>