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The timeline Rachel established (he was already near home after the next to last call) is an excellent point, and establishes the likelihood that TM made a conscious decision to not go home and to confront Zimmerman, which is likely exactly what happened

Regarding your other point, also a good one, the defense would need to be careful about how they referred to his possible motivations for not going home, since once they start planting the suggestion that TM wanted to beat up on this creepy, cracker, gay rapist because of his sexual orientation, then I'm sure the judge would sustain an objection of this being highly speculative or something like that. But whatever they can get in before the objection is made may be worthwhile for the jury to hear. Sure, they're supposed to ignore it now, but we all know how that goes.

IMO it's too early to know how the prosecutor is going to play this....remember things seemed to be laughable with Casey Anthony's attorney as well, very early on and throughout...but he brought the gold home in the end.