Bobert, I do understand what you're saying, and very much share your concerns.

My thought/hope is that the (potential) "silver lining" at this point, is that if Zimmerman is found "not guilty", there are grounds for a mistrial - on the basis that (as you put it) "the waters have been poisoned" - making a fair trial pretty near impossible.

Maybe it could even end up in the Supreme Court and set a precedent...

P.S.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm convinced they played extra dirty in our case because if we won, it would have set a precedent (about certain kinds of speed cameras set on curves being inaccurate - all over the country), and opened them up to possible lawsuits due to many previous fines, lost licenses, etc becoming questionable - which would have cost them huge amounts of £££. (BTW, £15,000 = $25-30,000)