Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.

[Tiberius]

Did you also love his blatant lies? I didn't post the video with any claims that I believed the whole thing to be irrefutable. It did, however, include some whopping lies told by Zimmerman.

Lies =/= Misremembering how things went after the event.

Can you recall everything you said in a conversation to someone yesterday, word for word? What exact steps you took?

Now, imagine you've been though a traumatic experience; shooting someone for instance. Do you think you'd remember specific details better or worse?

People are usually pretty good at explaining things live; they say what they see, and they can do it with a good degree of accuracy. Ask the same people to explain things even an hour later, and they are bound to get some details wrong. Ask them a day, or several days later, and they will likely misremember large and often important parts of it.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/20...of-memory/

This is why witness testimony is so dodgy, and also the reason the prosecution's key witness was so discredited on the stand. Luckily, the other witness we had a recording of because they were describing the events live to the police. Likewise with Zimmerman.

I get that people are angry about this event, and believe me, if there was actual evidence that Zimmerman intended to hurt Treyvon or even confront him, I'd change my mind about him. However, we can't just make up evidence to suit the conclusion we want; we have to go by the facts. Evaluation of the facts in this case simply does not lead to a conclusion that Zimmerman murdered Treyvon, but rather acted in self defense after being attacked.