Do you think Zimmerman will be convicted of murder?

I was surprised at the murder charge expecting a lesser charge like manslaughter based on the currently public information . This is all speculation here, of course, and only based on what little we currently know about this case, but when all is said and done do you think Zimmerman will stand convicted of murder?

The only problem I see with this article is that Zimmerman doesn't have any marks on his hands.
He didn't punch Martin from what we can tell.

The problem I have with that is that it suggests Zimmerman
made no attempt to defend himself beside using deadly force.

Why didn't Zimmerman fight back? Why was the use of deadly force necessary?

Just because someone punched him, even knocked him down, does not, in itself,
justify the use of deadly force in my mind.

If this is the case how can they try to claim that Zimmerman might have started the fight

Because Zimmerman pursued Martin, not vice versa,

and he might have provoked a defensive response from Martin
who quite reasonably might have feared what Zimmerman was going to do to him.
The entire avoidable episode was initiated by Zimmerman.

We also now know that there were drugs in Trayvon's system.
Seems he might have been smoking some weed sometime before the altercation.

According to the medical examiner, he might have smoked weed days before the incident with Zimmerman.
Weed is very unlikely to make someone aggressive. And Martin had no known history of aggressive behaviors.

On the other hand, the police did not test Zimmerman for either drugs or alcohol.
So, we don't know what was in his system.

He was prescribed Adderall--given for ADD/hyperactivity/impulsivity--and that is an amphetamine product--i.e. "speed".
We don't know whether that drug, or other drugs, were in his system when he shot Martin.

And Zimmerman was the one with a past history of aggressive behaviors that caused him run-ins with the law, as well as a history of calling the police to complain about black males walking around in the housing complex.

And, according to at least two witnesses the police interviewed, he had a history of making racist/ethnic negative remarks, and a confrontational bullying manner. All of that also suggests that Zimmerman might have started, or directly provoked, a fight with Martin.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/drop-george-zimmerman-murder-charge-article-1.1080161

Drop George Zimmerman’s murder charge
New evidence suggests Trayvon Martin's killer acted in self-defense

Good, we don't want someone like you in our fair country.

Again, as long as people like you are running England, it stays on my list of places to avoid. I just can't think of a reason to want to be in a place where people rot in prison for trying to defend themselves in their own homes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer)

A place where someone can't shoot an anarmed man and expect to get away with it.

We have different definitions of what is decent.

It would help if you actually looked at things the way they are,
instead of how you want them to be.

It would seems that some feel it is unfair to stopped an unarmed hoodlum from killing you
by using a firearm and the fair thing to do would be to allowed the hoodlum to beat y0u to death.

Of course if the unarmed hoodlum was trying to rape a woman instead of killing a man somehow I feel that Firefly
and some others on this website would have no problem with the used of a firearm to stop that attack.

You mean before we gave up our empire, at the insistance of you Americans?

That wasn't me, that was Churchill.

An unarmed 17 year old boy has been killed in cold blood,

but that's not enough for you, now you have to insult his memory.

He was not a 'hoodlum,' he was an innocent.

You mean before we gave up our empire, at the insistance of you Americans?

Oh my God, we're all gonna die now, those asshole yanks have just forced our beloved British masters to leave and we're not even gonna be able to make fire!!!!