Loki™ wrote:Sniperwax wrote:Loki™ wrote:How likely is it that if the kid had been threatening Zimmerman would not have threatened with his gun and how likely is it that the kid would not have backed down after that? And even if he had a non-lethal shot to stop him would have been easy at such close range.
Only a suicidal person brings fists to a gun fight when they clearly could have evaded. You ever seen how fast a 17 year old can run versus an overweight sack of middle aged man. It is only logical to assume that the gun was tucked away in a holster when the physical confrontation started.
If this element of the defendant's story is logically assumed to be true then what else might he be telling the truth about? What are the chances his claims are 100% truthful? 99% truthful? Only 20% truthful?
Even the opinions of the most talented statistical nerds in the world would be irrelevant in this particular case. Condemning people on speculation is actually very common around the world but not everywhere luckily. If you convinced me there was a 98.72101827364% chance Zimmerman was lying about Statement A and a 41.01928374% chance he was truthful about Statement B and etc I would say DO NOT press charges until you have facts to argue.
People cry alligator tears 'What if that was your child!?'. I would have been overjoyed had there not been charges filed if this was my child. It would make it a thousand*infinity times easier to snuff him out myself.
Still why lethal? I think he should be convicted of involuntary manslaughter at the least.
That all comes down to Z's story about that moment in the conflict. There are really only a few possibilities here and they cannot be proven or disproven based on the evidence, eye witness accounts, etc. The possibilities are fairly obvious he either had to shoot to kill, didn't have to but chose to, or my favorite guesstimate didn't mean to but did.
A warning shot would have been nice but if it means tilting your barrel and getting disarmed, oh hell no, shoot the bugger. I like all the morons that are like "T's DNA wasn't found on the gun! Obviously Z lied!".
We have clearly been watching way too many crime dramas if we think that DNA can be collected easily from every surface especially in the rain. The only thing T's DNA not being located on the gun proves with certainly is that T's DNA was not located on the gun.
The only people that call 911 before they commit a homicide are the completely disturbed usually post-partum moms that kill their kids, etc. Z's sanity was never in question only his decision making.