I have to disagree. Defending himself was the only thing he did right. Everything else he has done related to his case, he screwed up. Honestly, the only reason to defend him is because his self-defense was legal and he is being lumped in with Whites that also want to defend themselves... other than that.. he is a moron, not a hero. He has acted like a guilty man throughout. Luckily, the case against him is breaking apart on its own, because he would be bound to do something that causes him to lose it. the media just wants you to think zimmerman screwed up at some point. in reality, it's either lies or other people screwing him. the whole purpose is to smear him and twist everything he does as evil.     for example, zimmerman never actually broke the law with the whole money fiasco. but the news was up in arms saying he was hiding money, and getting ready to leave the country, etc. despite the fact zimmerman has cooperated fully from day 1.     I mean, his wife is still on trial for perjury, even though when judge lester was kicked off the case, it was established that zimmerman had not lied nor mislead the court. at first they were trying to use her as blackmail to get him to plead guilty. that's how the prosecution operates. they've got to smear and twist everything about zimmerman and those affiliated with him to make it easier to say prosecute him. so they're actually pulling the same unlawful trial on his wife as they are on him.    I don't care if he isn't white, this is about justice. the thought that you can be tried in the same manner as zimmerman, especially since there was never any cause to proceed with a trial, is a scary sign of things to come. in fact, there's laws that exist solely to keep these things from happening, but it seems historical knowledge is at a premium these days.     I can't make this clear enough...the fact that zimmerman is even on trial is unprecedented. not just because he isn't guilty, but because the prosecution never even had grounds to start a trial in the first place. that's scary because if this became common practice, you'd have tons of people on trial who shouldn't be, for anything and everything. for zimmerman, it's become guilty until proven innocent. even if he gets found not guilty, he's going to have a long road to rebuild his life. although I'm sure the money he gets from sewing NBC will help.     dd is their star witness and she literally adds nothing to the case. they're trying to make it out like she has some revelation above all the other witnesses who backed georges story from the start, in completely separate accounts. this means they independently verified what happened without george telling them what to say. and dd wasn't even there! if you listen to her testimony, nothing she says would be useful against zimmerman. all it seems like she heard was only a tiny portion of the struggling; and she can't even say who started it or who was attacking who.     of course, we all know she probably knows exactly what happened. trayvon probably told her hold up, ima go beat this guy down, then she heard some of the struggle, then the phone went dead. I think it's convenient that she said the phone went dead though.     I think she possibly heard everything....or didn't hear anything at all. after all, she waited weeks to come forward. she probably didn't know trayvon was dead yet because he hung up before attacking zimmerman, because let's face it, she doesn't sound like the news watching type unless it's about beyonce, and that news was from a completely different state than she was in.. think about it. she heard her boyfriend get into a fight on the phone, but didn't call police. she doesn't hear from him for days....but again, doesn't call police....or anyone to try to find out what happened to him. keep in mind, the first week or so after it happened, it was only covered as a local news story, so I really don't see her knowing what happened right away.     so let's recap. she knows her boyfriend is in a fight, the phone goes dead, and she couldn't have reasonably known what happened to him right away.....yet she didn't make one phone call to the police at any time. makes zero sense. hell even trayvons own father didn't know until a bit later. this indicates she didn't even know trayvon was in a fight at all.     heck, she still admits she doesn't know who was yelling for help....the fact that she can't immediately say it was trayvon, just shows either didn't hear anything or she knows it wasn't trayvon.     dd has been coached what to say from the beginning, but they didn't want her story to be one that was too convenient, to keep it from looking like an obvious lie. crump technically broke the law just by taking her testimony and presenting it to the court. we all know why he did it though, so he can find out what she does or doesn't know, and have her twist it to cast a shadow of doubt.    crump had a huge conflict of interest. here he is, defending the martin family, while also finding and talking to witnesses privately, splicing up recordings to cut sections out (his excuse was that the 'audio' was bad so he had to redo parts). he literally had no legal authority to depose that witness. the legal course of action should have been turning the witnesses identity over to the court so they could interview her instead. in hindsight, it's also been proven that crump has been seeing lying on the news about minor things he said he didn't know at the time, but was proven to have already known at the time. there's soo many lies, he had trouble keeping track of them. and that's just the tip of the iceberg of what crump has done. there's hours of video out there pointing out all the fallacies.