Originally Posted by Rochard

Baddog is right. I needed to listen to the evidience more. And watch the trial more.

I always thought Martin "jumped up from the bushes and punched Zimmerman for no reason" (I mean, no reason other than an armed man was following him around for seventeen minutes).

I was just watching the closing arguments. They played a tape of Zimmerman making a statement to the police and Zimmerman said "I walked up towards him as I was reaching for my cell phone"... So not only did Zimmerman follow the kid for seventeen minutes, he walked up to him and confronted him.