

Featured letter: That night, Trayvon Martin was just defending himself

6:25 AM, Aug. 10, 2013  |  Comments

This is in response to a letter in the Asbury Park Press ("President, activists distort racial issues," Aug. 4). Trayvon Martin did not "jump" George Zimmerman. He was defending himself against an assault.

A reasonable man would fear serious bodily harm if someone followed him in a car on a dark night, and then the person exited the car and approached him.

This constitutes the legal definition of assault. Zimmerman was then guilty, not only of assault, a felony, but of felony murder. Committing a homicide while in the act of committing another felony is felony murder, the sentence for which is at least second-degree murder.

How could someone "talk things over" in such a situation? If the prosecution presented the case as one of felony murder, the jury would have had to find him guilty.

Michael Frischberg


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