Maybe he panicked when he found out that the suspicious black man in a hoodie he killed was really just a kid out for a walk and not a burglar or criminal? A kid from a good family who was a guest in the subdivision with every right to be there?
I think GZ was convinced that night he was justified in killing the unknown person and that SYG would protect him. Then he finds out that all the assumptions he made while on the phone to SPD were wrong and there was a good chance that SYG would not be a slam dunk defense and a get out of jail free card. I wonder if he thought the death would not be carefully examined so any lies he made in his statements to SPD would not be discovered. After all, after the Collison case, he thought SPD incompetent and unable to fairly handle investigations.
But when the dead kid turned out to have been an innocent bystander that put a different spin on GZ's lies even if at that point it was only in his own mind. I think once GZ found out the truth about the dead kid he knew the enormity of what he had done and his only thought was to run. If he'd had more resources, I bet he would have disappeared.
Then when Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton got representation and the case hit the national media, GZ's defenders - Joe Oliver, Frank Taaffe, GZ's brother and father - trot out to spam the media with their various versions of GZ's stories, still trying to cover his a**.
I think that last week when Sonner and Uhrig were 'representing' GZ, he was in full panic mode. He could see that public opinion was against him, that the attorneys who were supposed to be turning the tide were ineffective, that he was going to be arrested and going to trial. That's when he tried to contact SP Corey, to try to give her his version of events without his 'legal advisors'.
I believe JO when he said GZ thought this would 'blow over' - SPD and the use of SYG have a history that suggests that is what would have happened if Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton had not been diligent in seeking justice for their son. Without their attorneys' use of the public media to bring this case to the public, Trayvon Martin's death would have been just another young black man killed with little investigation into the circumstances.
Without Natalie Jackson and the firm of Parks & Crump, GZ would have gotten away with murder. He may still, due to Florida's bizarre laws and the vagaries of the jury system (if the case makes it that far), but if that happens, public opinion will demand changes in the laws and the system.
All of the above is completely IMHO, JMHO, :moo:, etc.
