All the rest of it’s of passing interest to the public, but the jury will never hear it.Well, I guess anything can happen in this case, since so much of this case is "above the law"... but in a more normal case wouldn't the act of smoking crack 15 minutes before the incident (for example) have bearing on the question of whether or not an alleged attacker was actually aggressive or not?
Zimmerman alleges that Martin attacked him without provocation. How is Martin's mental condition (on drugs, not on drugs) not relevant to that allegation?
Again, I realize this case is "above the law" and normal considerations don't apply... but in any other case, where the alleged attacker hasn't been publicly elevated to Sainthood, wouldn't drug use, and drugged-state-of-mind, be relevant?
I like your reference to sainthood. In my opinion, which extends out about to the end of my nose, even if Martin was loaded to the gills, there’s no evidence that being loaded had anything to do with the attack. Loaded folks become violent at different levels, act out differently, etc. and there’s no evidence of his actual state at that moment of the assault. So, I just don’t see how it would ever get before the jury. I suppose that if the state claims (on the basis of no evidence) that Zimmerman provoked Trayvon so outrageously that any rational individual would assault him, then you might offer another possibility, but from what I’ve seen of the evidence, there’s simply no evidence that any such thing happened, so I don’t see how you get by the initial stage to get to that issue.