In Defense of George Zimmerman

I was pleased to finally see that George Zimmerman and his Family was beginning to put together a defense team because this signals, for me, his inevitable arrest.  Now we will get a chance to hear all of the evidence, for and against, instead of being spoon-fed tidbits here and there from the media.  This reminds me of the O.J. Simpson Trial where what we were hearing from the media, formed our decisions of guilt or innocence only to now learn that some of us was correct in assuming that O.J. was innocent and covering for someone else.  Many of us had him guilty and still today would repeat the same.  Many are assuming that George Zimmerman really has no case of self-defense.  I personally, take the stand that Mr. Zimmerman will be found guilty of murder but before he goes down, he will take many in the Sanford Police Department with him.

I look for his defense team to reflect the blame of this travesty of justice from Zimmerman to those in the Sanford Police Department and be justified in doing so.  The amateurish way in which this investigation was handled in the beginning will give certain rise to excuses that can be used in court by the Zimmerman defense team.  In the end, however, all those associated with this case, who did not follow proper procedures will be held responsible.  The damage to the City of Sanford and the Police Department will have been done.  His defense team will use the fact of very little forensic evidence because it was not properly collected.  They will use the fact of higher authority reasonably assuming that they did not have enough evidence to approve the lead investigator’s wish of an immediate manslaughter charge.  They will attempt to minimize the evidence by directing the jury’s attention to the evidence that is not there.

It makes me wonder, if part-time law enforcement or city administrators are powerful enough really control the happenings of any city.  Or maybe it’s more about the part-time, wanta-be investigators like me who really may be the problem.  Maybe projecting our own thoughts and feelings into an investigation is just as dangerous as allowing the responsible to go unpunished as is now the case in the O.J. Simpson case.