Will Zimmerman have to take the stand at his trial?

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 In the current climate it might make more sense if he didn’t.  After all, the public is following every bit of information with bated breath, see-sawing from one opinion to another, and him taking the stand will only feed the rumor mill- which is something that his attorney’s office seems determined to avoid.

“The O'Mara Law group stresses that while the George Zimmerman case will be explored deeply in the media and by the public, the only proper place to determine the guilt or innocence of George Zimmerman is in court,” a posting on Zimmerman’s legal defense website posted recently.  “And indeed only the jury will have all the evidence required to make such a determination.

But one of the prosecutors, Bernie De La Rionda, has hinted that Zimmerman’s story to the police varied, bringing up the possibility that he gave false testimony. And according to Miami attorney Kendall Coffey, this means that Zimmerman might very well have to take the stand.

“The most critical information in the trial could be his believability," Coffey says. "This defendant is asserting self-defense and it would be very difficult to assert self-defense without taking the stand to explain how it happened. All the more difficult if the police are holding in their hands contradictory accounts."