re: #37 Expand Your Ground

I have come to assume that the state prosecutors must have a pretty solid case, or they would not have pressed for second-degree murder charges.
Zimmerman’s jittery behavior tends to support that assumption.

Personally, I’ve come to the exact opposite conclusion, that the charges were motivated by an desire to either (A) Give Zimmerman the impression that the case against him was solid and so scare him into pleading to a lesser charge or (B) Appease the natives who had spent weeks growing restless at the fear that he’d be released upon the investigation’s conclusion.

Nothing in the evidence so far provides grounds for charges higher than manslaughter or negligent homicide, which means that Murder 2 is a serious overcharge. A lot of Zimmerman’s supporters declared on the day Corey announced the charges that she’d got for Murder 2 because it was the highest charge she could go for without impaneling a grand jury. I’m inclined to believe they were right on at least that count.