Originally Posted by Bill8

technically, OP's question doesn't make a lot of sense, the whole point of investigations and trials is to determine wether or not a person is LEGALLY guilty or innocent.

Hundreds of thousands of both guilty and innocent people go thru the legal process every year, to determine wether or not they are offically guilty or innocent.

OFFICIALLY guilty or innocent does not mean the person was ACTUALLY guilty pr innocent - so zimmerman could be actually innocent but be declared guilty, or actually guilty but be declared innocent.

however, zimmermans life as it was is over, and was over when he pulled the trigger.

something for all those of us who carry and shoot to remember. There is a price to be paid for pulling that trigger on another human being. It is not glorious, it is not mas macho, it means the end of your life, as it was, just as much as it can mean the end of the life of whomever you are shooting.

there are consequences to pulling the trigger. it's not a tv show, where everything ends happily.