1. There are national standards for neighborhood watches, bruce... The operative word in neighborhood watch is, ahhhhh, watch... That is the backbone of the program everywhere... The difference between a neighborhood watch program and armed security is night and day... Armed security are people who have specific training in weapons... If you can find one neighborhood watch group that arms untrained watchers please feel free to offer up your source... If not, then this argument of yours is null and void...

2. We agree but if Martin (the victim) gets a fair trial, Zimmerman has to be convicted of, at the very least, wrongful death...

3. There is a name for someone, other than a law enforcement officer, who gets out of his car with a gun because he is suspicious... It's called vigilante...

4. You miss the point yet again... If the conflict was initiated by Zimmerman then nothing that followed absolves Zimmerman from liability... Once Zimmerman made the initial contact, which BTW is not in dispute, then Martin had every right to defend himslef...

Bottom line, Part 649: The only way that anything that was on Martin's cell phone that could be relevant to this case would have to involved this case... Since Martin and Zimmerman didn't know one another at the time of the "encounter" there can be nothing on that phone that can be used as "evidence"... Zimmerman's attorney knows this yet he has used the media to try to poison the jury pool... The judge is negligent and derelict here in not imposing a gag order...

And, yes, I do know quite a bit of law... When I was in business I had the opportunity to represent my company in court well over 20 times against "real lawyers" and in all but one of those cases won the rest of them... Got to where the "real lawyers", most of whom I knew personally, would try to settle rather than litigate... No brag, just fact...

B~