Hey, it's easy. Call the EMTs to the stand. Show them whatever picture he claims he has and ask them if that's how Zimmerman looked the might of the murder.
Good advice. I echo that, as a lawyer.
Basically, you'd have to look at the Florida rules of evidence. I know that in family, law, in CA, we can use such photos. But family court i lax on rules of evidence.
Essentially, what would happen if such evidence is allowed, would be that whoever took the photos would have to take the stand to authenticate them. Then, evidence from whatever professionals witnessed injuries, would be presented to refute the photos if they showed something much different from what those professionals saw.
What I'm trying to say is the photos could come in (if they exist) and the jury would have to decide what weight to give them.
Oh, I'm sure Zimmerman loves westerns. He's a cowboy wanna be', IMO; fancies himself a John Wayne type hero.
Well, at a certain point, the contortions done to make Zimmerman the good guy, no longer make sense:
1. Zimmerman didn't go after the "a$$hole" he said always get away. He was looking fro a street sign and was jumped.
3. Oh wait, it sounds silly that this neighborhood watch captain didn't know the street name, so he wasn't looking for a street sign, no, he was jumped from behind as he looked for a residence number.
2. Zimmerman was viciously attacked but such injuries either don't always cause bleeding, don't swell right away, or don't cause bruising immediately.
3. Zimmerman shot Trayvon in the chest as Trayvon beat him, but there was no blood on Zimmerman's jacket because sometimes violent 9mm gunshots bleed
internally.
4. Zimmerman said the kid got shot and uttered, "You got me." But we all know that sounds contrived and fake, so really, he misheard and Trayvon said, "You shot me."
These are just some among many. IMO, common sense must prevail at a certain point.
After taking a year of constitutional law and a semester of criminal procedure, I know what constitutes an arrest. Criminal charges usually follow an arrest, but not always.
When you are handcuffed, placed in a squad car, taken to the police station and questioned, that is an arrest. There is a ton of case law on this. However, there have been cases where, under such circumstances, the court deems it not an arrest when it comes to gathering evidence (fruit of the poisonous tree) or throwing out confessions sue to Miranda.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/arrest
