kept racial profiling out of the prosecution's case, but she allowed the defense to stereo type Martin in front of a predominately white jury. They totally ignored Trayvon Martin's rights to self defense. I still maintain there was no evidence presented Trayvon ever circled back or jumped Zimmerman, who had a loaded gun.
I also still maintain Zimmerman profiled Martin and used derogatory language would showed ill will towards him. People keep claiming manslaughter but the evidence for murder existed. The prosecution failed to bring in Zimmerman's past violent history for some reason also. Maybe it was due to the judge or intimidation from the defense about bringing up Martin's history where no criminal records of violence existed. The judge allowed the defense to look at Martin's social media accounts, which should have been private. All that stuff on twitter or facebook is just hearsay and not evidence of anything that actually occurred. Kids do that a lot on those accounts just to present an image. It was just a fishing expedition by the defense.
She should had never allowed one of the defense witnesses to testify about Martin's physical capacity either. I'm stunned the prosecution didn't vigorously object to even allowing that. I don't see how someone can testify to someone's capacity, when he had never met or examined Trayvon Martin but he did. The defense presented him as an expert I believe, when he compared Martin's physical capacities to Zimmerman's. This guy presented Martin as physically superior and Martin being soft but he has never gave Trayvon any physical or observed him in any activity. Coot's testimony essentially didn't serve any purpose or relevance. He could testify to Zimmerman's capacity but he can't make any assertions about Trayvon being soft or physically superior to Zimmerman. It was just another example of stereotyping Black males.
She shouldn't have allowed the defense to present that animation to the jury either. Whatever images they had on it representing Trayvon is not evidence and would have been another example of villifying Trayvon to the jury. It would also be unfair because it gave Zimmerman an advantage to not testify and be cross examined.
They should have bought in Police misconduct and the prosecution should have labeled detective Serina a hostile witness. He and John Good should have been the defense's witness. Good might have embellished his testimony with that MMA style description. There are two alleged witnesses that were not presented in that trial by both sides concerning a 13 year old boy and mother, concerning police misconduct. It seems to me the police investigators were trying to shore up weaknesses in Zimmerman's testimony instead of taking statements. That re-enactment seemed more like a rehearsal where investigators were pointing out weaknesses so they can be corrected. That is why I question their explanations about clarifying and adding in information, which Good asserts. For example, was it Serino suggested MMA style to Good or Good's words.
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