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Trayvon Martin And What The Defense Didn't Really See
By Charles P. Pierce
at 12:30PM

I realize that the only defense George Zimmerman has for killing Trayvon Martin for the crime of carrying snack food in a neighborhood where Zimmerman thought Martin didn't belong is that he was in fear of his life, and that, therefore, Trayvon Martin has to go on trial too next week, in absentia, of course, what with having been shot to death and all. But the defense team is simply going to have to get a little sharper .. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/02/18702011-george-zimmermans-attorneys-apologize-for-mischaracterizing-evidence?lite .

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Attorneys for George Zimmerman apologized Sunday for mischaracterizing evidence they said boosted their theory that Trayvon Martin was the aggressor in his fatal meeting with their client last year. Lawyer Mark O'Mara said during a hearing last Tuesday that the defense had obtained video footage of three fights, including one in which he said two of Martin's friends "were beating up a homeless guy."
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Let's stop right there. The defense has video of two of Martin's friends beating up a homeless guy so, therefore, Trayvon Martin, who didn't beat up a homeless guy, should have been confronted by a guy with a gun at some unspecified point in the future? Objection, Your Honor. Assumes facts not remotely in this universe.

But, of course, there's more.

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But Zimmerman's defense team corrected that statement on Sunday, saying O'Mara had unintentionally "misstated the nature" of the footage. In a statement posted on Zimmerman's website, the defense lawyers said the footage actually showed "two homeless guys fighting each other over a bike."
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I repeat what I have said all along. There is absolutely nothing good that can come out of this episode. Nothing.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/trayvon-martin-zimmerman-trial-060413