You said that the story was according to Zimmerman's "testimony," but, in fact, Zimmerman never testified under oath. If he had done so, his statements and the description he gave of the incident would have been open to cross-examination and challenge by the defense. Since that did not happen [[as is quite common in criminal cases), Zimmerman's accounting of events remains largely unchallenged, which is why I, and many others, are unwilling to accept it as a gospel account of what happened that night.
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