And when you get hit hard in your nose, it tends to break.
So, what if he was only hit six times instead of more than a dozen? Does that really matter? Was he supposed to count the blows? I think it's undisputed at this point that Martin was on top of Zimmerman beating him up. You can call it a minor scuffle, but I don't think a reasonable person will believe a minor scuffle results in Zimmerman's injuries.
Where are the witnesses who will say Martin was not beating the crap out of Zimmerman? Or that Zimmerman was on top of Martin? Or that Zimmerman was pointing a gun at Martin?
I haven't seen the smoking gun yet. In fact, the medical evidence, witnesses, and 911 tape (with Zimmerman yelling for help), all support Zimmerman. Remember the autopsy showed Zimmerman shot him point blank, consistent with him shooting Martin during a hand-to-hand fight. Although it wasn't much of a fight (more like a beat down).
I agree with Dershowitz that Zimmerman should not be prosecuted.
It makes a difference whether he was hit 6 or 12 times because he is on record as saying he was hit more than a dozen times, during a severe beat down (as you put it), if the jury don't think his visual injuries coincide with that ,they will heavily doubt the validity of his story. and the photos from above along with any other taken in the police station will be shown to the jury in court.
We know for certain he shot the kid, it is only self defence if the jury believe the beat down he took would have led a "reasonable" person to believe their life is in grave danger.
Where our opinion differs is on what we think someone looks like that has just had the cr@p beat of their face.
if a friend of mine came to me with the injuries visible above, telling me they had just been beaten to cr@p so bad that they feared for their life, I would laugh and think they were being a drama queen and clearly exaggerating.
And I don't think you have been keeping up with the reporting of this case because from what I have read recently the witnesses that originally corroborated Zimmerman's account , seem to have changed their stories. from my reading there now doesn't appear to be any eye witnesses that are going to really influence the case either way.
The 911 calls have never been conclusive, as I don't think they have been able to establish who was doing the yelling, Zimmerman says it was him, Trayvon's mum has identified the screams as his.
And even if the screams were Zimmerman's, he screamed 14 times during one 911 call and ended up with the visible injuries above? reasonable response from a reasonable man?
To me all the circumstantial evidence points to murder, we know for certain he was pursuing this kid, we know he was very irritated, and had ill will towards him(describing him as a punk) all on the 911 transcript. We know this kid had no criminal record or history of violence and was just making his way home after visiting a 711 store. And contrary to what many believe, strong enough circumstantial evidence can be enough on it's own to secure a conviction.
His injuries(to me) are not consistent with his story that he was in the fight of his life. I know he has his private GP report that lists a whole load of facial/head injuries that makes him sound pretty beat up.
But unfortunately for Zimmerman the jury will know he never needed a single stitch for any cuts to his head and they have very clear photos showing very minimal facial injuries.