But if prosecutors do that, then the Zimmerman defense will counter with Trayvon Martin’s own social media postings on MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. On Twitter specifically, Martin looked significantly older than the young adorable photos that were immediately disbursed after his death. The fact that Martin wore wore gold covers on his teeth and that he often retweeted crude jokes riddled with foul language and posted offensive lyrics to popular rap songs won’t help Martin’s case. Of course, in the larger scheme of things, reposting crude jokes and wearing gold caps are innocuous, but the defense will surely latch onto anything to free their client.
Or, as the blogger David Weigel wrote on on Slate, the fact that Trayvon’s Twitter handle used the reclaimed racial slur and some of the racy language he used, “inspired a mini-surge of tsk-tsking on Twitter” by whites and conservatives. That is what the defense is hoping will happen during the trial.
