The Media, Trayvon Martin, and the Quest For Truth

espite the court’s evidentiary rulings, I fully expect the Zimmerman trial to turn into a complete fiasco, as high-profile criminal trials often do. That will happen, in part, because our criminal justice system bends over backwards to enable defendants to put on every legally recognizable defense available to them. Remember, the point of a criminal trial is not to determine guilt or innocence; it’s to determine whether the state can prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.