[Hoot Gibson]

I do not think a jury will convict him because there is enough reasonable doubt. You will have old people who think that Marijuana induces volatile behavior, which is a lie. There is so much gray area about who instigated the confrontation and that the only witness is the alleged "perp". The sad thing is that most of the posters on here want him to get off just to get back at what they perceive as the "liberal media" and activists in black neighborhoods. If this would have happened to the son of any poster on here, they would have been raising hell, and yelling for justice. Like his parents have.

Who has said that they want Zimmerman to "get off?" What I have said is that given the facts that are currently known, there is no way that Zimmerman should be convicted of murder. Second degree murder should never have been charged and the charge was "murder" instead of manslaughter because of political considerations, IMO.

I am not a legal expert but I can certainly see Zimmerman getting convicted of manslaughter. Whether he is or not depends on the effect of Florida's "Stand your ground" law on this case. I think that a jury could very well find him guilty of negligent homicide because of his decision to follow Martin and leave his vehicle.

The media has behaved shamefully in their coverage of this case and people like Obama, Sharpton, and Jackson have done their best to inject race into a place where it did not belong - but that is a separate issue from whether Zimmerman should be held criminally responsible for Martin's death. Considering the prosecution of a hates crime law against Zimmerman, based on the facts now known, seems like a real witch hunt.