1) Zimmerman has no criminal history  Zimmerman has a RAP sheet. Resisting arrest with assault on an officer of the law, resisting arrest without assault, mutual domestic violence restraining orders between himself and a former girlfriend, several traffic court appearances for driving with license.  2)Travon has a long history already at 17....including drugs, thug mentality and fighting, expelled from school for drugs, etc.  Martin has no record with any law enforcement authority. He had never bee expelled from school, merely suspended. He was suspended at least twice, once for having a screwdriver and items of feminine jewelry in his backpack that the school believed might have been used to burglarize lockers, but those items of jewelry were never claimed by any girls and the screwdriver was never proven to have been used.The most recent suspension was for having an empty bag in his backpack that the school thought MIGHT have contained marijuana but it was never proven so law enforcement authorities were not called.  However, at the time of autopsy his body had trace amounts of THC, the main chemical in marijuana, though well below impairment level. Taken with the fact that marijuana can take as long as 2 weeks to leave a person's body, this indicates he consumed the drug at some point in the last couple weeks.  Zimmerman suffers from anxiety, depression, and insomnia and was, at the time of he incident, being treated for these disorders with prescription amphetamines and benzodiazepines, which have a stated side effect of causing aggression and lack of control over behavior.  3)Zimmerman is hispanic (with some white reportedly, but appears hispanic )  At the time the officers took his incident statement at the scene of the shooting, Zimmerman identified himself as Zimmerman, George Michael, DOB 10/6/86, white male, 5'9". He did not produce a drivers' license.  5)Travon was over 6'tall and muscled  The initial reports filed by the first officers to arrive at he scene stated the victim was a black male, 6'00" and 160 pounds, lying facedown in the grass with his hands underneath his body.  6)Zimmerman 5'7" and ....well, we see.  Zimmerman identified himself as a white male, 5'09, no weight given/recorded, as he did not produce a drivers' license.  7)Zimmerman was trying to protect his neighborhood  Neighborhood watch rules state no carrying of weapons while 'on duty'. Zimmerman was on his way to Target on an errand that night when he spotted Martin, not on duty. When he exited his vehicle to observe Martin, he was effectively placing himself on duty and he knew watch rules were to not carry a weapon. Therefore, he broke Watch rules when the weapon left his vehicle.  8)Travon was walking thru people's back yards and not from the neighborhood (had a lot of recent crime in neighborhood...perps not found, hmmmmmmm. Per speculation, but......)  The community has a sidewalk running down the rear grassy common areas between the rows of condo buildings. Martin's father's girlfriend lived in a condo toward the rear of the complex, and the shortest distance from the 7-11 to Tracy Brown's condo was down this sidewalk, which is considered a common/public walkway.  9)Zimmerman claims he was getting his butt kicked and fired in self defense at close range  Yes. Of note here--the coroner found none of Zimmerman's DNA on Martin's hands.  10) Coroner's report says Travon was shot at very close range (evidence in place)  11)Travon has a history of fighting.  12)Zimmerman has no record of fighting  Zimmerman has a prior arrest for resisting arrest by an officer of the law with assault/battery on said officer and a domestic violence restraining order.  13)Screaming for help recorded by 911...sounds like an older male in a high pitch (uhh, travon is 17!)  The official word from the experts say it is inconclusive and they can't tell who was screaming.  14)Now one saw the scuffle in place....  A 911 caller (the 911 call in which the shot is heard that ended Martin's life) tells the 911 dispatcher that she can see two men struggling. A short time into that call there is the sound of a gunshot, and the caller wonders aloud t he dispatcher 'Why would he shoot that man?' Seconds later she tell the dispatcher she can see flashlights, which the dispatcher informs her is the first-responding officers. The call ends shortly thereafter.  Also remember that he was ordered to surrender his passports at the start of legal proceedings and to disclose his finances, which he did not do--he did not disclose that he had another passport that he had declared lost previously but was in fact still in his possession. He did no disclose the dollar amount already collected for his defense by his lawyers via the website and both he and his wife did jail time for jailhouse comments to each other which strongly suggested to the judge at the time that Zimmerman knew about these finances but did not disclose them and that he endeavored to hide them in other accounts.  I am no judge. I was not there. It is not for me to say who was at fault, who is and is not guilty; I merely try, with this post, to clear up some misconceptions about the case. In my opinion, the timeline and facts don't add up to Zimmerman's assertion that Martin was beating him up so bad that 'one more impact would have put him in diapers for he rest of his life' as he told his family and his family subsequently told the media.  I do believe that two lives ended that night, Martin's and Zimmerman's. Martin is deceased, but Zimmerman will have to live the rest of his life wit the knowledge that he fired the bullet that ended another human being's life, and his life will never be the same. Whether he is found guilty in a human court of law or not, someday when the Great Equalizer comes for him, he will get whatever punishment or reward he deserves from Someone who knows exactly what happened and will not be swayed by lawyers' arguments.
Six women were selected Thursday to serve on the Florida jury that will decide if George Zimmerman is guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.  The jurors — five of them white and one who is black or Hispanic, according to prosecutors —  …