this is a really deep dicussion lol I've read a few of the responses on here and in my opinion the verdict was wrong some may say it wasn't enough evidence but it was so much pointing towards him saying that he did kill an innocent young man out of spite not for self defense but like someone else said Florida can't even count its ballots so what could we have expected from this trial.
Truthfully, the jury had to go by the instructions given by the judge and by the definition of the laws. This is why he was found not guilty. He did not willfully kill Martin. It was a case of self-defense. There was no injustice except what Attorney General Corey tried to do by keeping evidence from the defense.
A lot of people were swayed by the media who portrayed Martin as a "young, innocent, little boy" while, in fact, he was suspended from school 3 times mostly for fighting, he was looking to by a gun, he loved to street fight, and he thought of himself as a 'gansta.' He was not a little boy, either. He was 6' tall and weighed 160 lbs, while Zimmernan was 5'8" and 195 lb. and wasn't a fighter.
The media forgot to mention that Zimmerman followed the dispatcher's orders. After Zimmerman got the street address for the dispatcher, he was turning around to go back to his truck when he was waylaid by Martin ("a punch in the nose will put anyone down quickly"). The one tape was also doctored, partly edited out for sensationalism. Al Sharpton did not help the matter, either by protesting 'No Justice, No Peace." That's race baiting and inciting a riot that happened in different places around the country after the verdict, but unless you really dig deep on line, you won't see anything about it on TV.
There were so many mistakes made prior to, and during this case that it has put a wedge between races and the years of "peace" (even though hidden) has been destroyed. Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Jackson, Angela Corey and the prosecuting team played a large part in this wedge and it will take many years (again) to heal the wounds caused by this case.
Sorry, I get carried away on legal matters and politics at times.