re: #5 Bob Dillon

A fight with another boy by itself would be not much. A thread of violence and ongoing negative behavior would be something else.

My fear is that the victim is being put on trial, and Zimmerman’s defense will do so without hesitation.

ZIMMERMAN’S got a history of violence. And he shot a teenager he’d been, by his own admission, following. If Martin punched him, he was well within his rights. Under goddamn Florida law.

Bleah. It punches all my buttons. It used to be routine to drag out a rape victim’s sexual history in court.