I think it won't make a difference.

The question will be whether GZ's believed he was in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death after Trayvon hit him and whether that belief was reasonable.

All this business about who was where at what moment has nothing to do with what happened after TM hit GZ.

Following TM isn't a crime, it doesn't negate GZ's right to be wherever he was when TM hit him. Unless GZ provoked TM's punch, his use of lethal force was justified. Even if the judge or jury decides GZ somehow provoked the punches, the question is only whether GZ's belief he had no lesser means available to stop the attack was a reasonable one. John, W-6, has never wavered from his statement that GZ was struggling to get up from under TM. GZ has the evidence of injuries resulting from being hit by Trayvon. The injuries don't have to be life-threatening.

GZ's perception of danger doesn't have to be real, he just has to believe it's real, and the belief just has to be one an ordinary person, if confronted with the circumstances as GZ believed them to be, would find reasonable .

The people continuing to make arguments against GZ based on minute details of location are struggling to come up with an argument for guilt that won't matter a bit in the end, in my opinion.

GZ could take the stand and say yes, he was following Travon the whole time, he knew TM realized it and kept following him, because he thought TM was up to no good and didn't want him to get away, and it wouldn't defeat self-defense. TM still would not be justified in using physical force against GZ, and once he did, GZ had the right to respond -- including with lethal force.

Dee Dee's assumption TM was shoved is inadmissible opinion, she doesn't say Trayvon told her GZ shoved him (had he told her that, his statement might be a hearsay exception and admissible through her) and no other witness has suggested that GZ used physical force against TM before TM hit GZ.

George's inability to exactly recall the sequence of events during a traumatizing incident in which he was injured is not going to render him incredible on why he shot Trayvon, given his injuries, his contemporaneous statements at the scene that he cried out for help and shot TM in self defense, and the statements of witnesses as to what they saw, heard and didn't see or hear which don't contradict his version.

on 13 August 2012.
On July 13, the defense team filed a Verified Motion to Disqualify Trial Judge. Judge Lester responded on August 1 by issuing an Order Dismissing Defendant's Verified Motion to Disqualify Trial Judge on the basis that it was legally insufficient. Today the defense team will file a Petition for Writ of Prohibition with the 5th District Court of Appeal.

The Statute says that if attacked in an area you have a legal right to be in, you aren't required to retreat. George, being pinned on his back didn't have an opportunity to retreat so that part of the statute doesn't apply, but self defense still does apply and the statute gives him the right to have the immunity hearing to dismiss the charges on self defense.

PRESS CONFERENCE 8/13/12 1:45pm

O'Mara has submitted an Extraordinary Writ of Prohibition to Appeals Court. Expects it will be filed and accepted by Appeals Court today but has to wait for clearance from Court Clerk before anything can be made public. Decision can take several weeks - state may be asked to submit a brief on the case as well. O'Mara's writ was 30-40 pages long with 500-600 attachments. Asking for De Novo review (from day one)

Description of applicable writ:

http://www.floridabar.org/divcom/jn/jnj ... 060056CD8B

TM had missed school 53 times (for reasons that are not known to us). He was kicked out of school three times in five months. (He obviously did not give a damn about school.) He posted himself as “No Limit Nigga” – with the implications of a violent life-style. He was smoking “Blunts” and was wandering around – generally pissed off at the world. When he saw George, he though he could prove to the girl he was talking to how tough he was – by taking a swing at this “authority” person that was waking across the “T” – so he did. That is indeed assault and battery – which is a felony.

on 13 August 2012.
On July 13, the defense team filed a Verified Motion to Disqualify Trial Judge. Judge Lester responded on August 1 by issuing an Order Dismissing Defendant's Verified Motion to Disqualify Trial Judge on the basis that it was legally insufficient. Today the defense team will file a Petition for Writ of Prohibition with the 5th District Court of Appeal.

An order was entered today:

ORD-Writs Show Cause w/out Reply

The due date is August 23. It says the the case will not be stayed between now and August 23.

The order says "writs" rather than "writ." I think that means two writs issued, one to Judge Lester and one to the state. I assume the "w/o reply" means the defense cannot file a reply to whatever Judge Lester or the State files in response, but I'm not entirely clear on that.
The Orlando Sentinel reporter says the state was directed to reply, but I'm not convinced the court wasn't also so directed.

Thanks for the great links posted, and the honest discussion.