Great news for George Zimmerman

From the New York Times:

Judge Rules Trayvon Martin Files Can Be Used by Defense
A judge in the second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman, the Sanford, Fla., man who said he shot an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin, in self-defense, ruled on Friday that Mr. Martin�s school and social media records should be provided to the defense.

The judge, Debra S. Nelson of Seminole County Circuit Court, said Mr. Martin�s Twitter, Facebook and school records were relevant in the self-defense case.

In those instances, showing whether a victim �had an alleged propensity to violence� or aggression is germane, the judge said.

Mr. Zimmerman, 29, who attended the hearing, told the police that he shot Mr. Martin on the night of Feb. 26 only after the teenager attacked him, breaking his nose and hurting his head.

Mr. Martin, 17, was walking in the rain back to a house where he was a guest when he was spotted by Mr. Zimmerman, the neighborhood�s crime watch leader, who found him suspicious. The trial is scheduled to begin June 10.

Hoping to create a fuller portrait of Mr. Martin, Mark M. O�Mara, Mr. Zimmerman�s lawyer, argued that the teenager�s postings on Facebook and Twitter could reveal relevant details about his interests and attitudes.

Mr. Martin had posted, among other things, videos and pictures that suggested he was somehow involved in mixed martial arts, Mr. O�Mara said after the hearing.

The school records are important because Mr. Martin had been suspended from his Miami high school for 10 days for possessing a baggie with traces of marijuana; the teenager had been suspended twice before.

�The issue in this case is, who did what during those couple of minutes that we don�t know what happened,� Mr. O�Mara said. �Was the victim the aggressor?�

An interesting possibility can be found at The Last Refuge. From Part #1):

With a following of over 121,000 subscribers, the AMilonakis channel is a daily video log of a guy, looks like a kid, but he is officially 92 years old according to his u-tube profile. Anyway, this �Kid� is living a life of drug use, specifically (purple lean/sippin sippin), a very popular type of drug use in urban teen circles.

Trayvon began following this subscription in July of 2011 according to his U-Tube account.

Purple Lean (Drank) is an intoxicating beverage also known by the names lean, sizzurp, and liquid codeine. It is commonly abused by southern rappers and wannabe suburban teenagers. It is a mixture of Promethazine/Codeine cough syrup and sprite, with a few jolly ranchers and/or skittles thrown in.

Promethazine with codeine, consumed in such large amounts as is popular with such southern rappers as lil wayne, slim thug, and Big Moe, produces an opiate-like high that is potentiated by the Promethazine.

Promethazine by itself will not produce a high. The beverage must be sipped slowly, and not guzzled, in order to avoid unconsciousness and/or life threatening overdose.

Some of you right about now are saying HOLY SMOKE�.. Well I promise you, this ain�t nothing yet. Consider this post just a precursor, or warm-up for something that is going to explain a lot about the events surrounding the night of February 26th.

We are finishing up some exhaustive research, that will shed a new light into the �state of mind� for Trayvon Martin on that Sunday night, and will most certainly raise the demand for the release of the so far withheld toxicology report.

There is a good bit of information about Dextromethorphan cough syrup in Part #2):

According to Erowid�s �DXM Home Page�:

DXM is a widely available over-the-counter cough suppressant. When taken far above its standard medical dosage, it is a strong dissociative used primarily by teens.

Their �DXM Basics� page further makes clear that it is:

��a semisynthetic opiate derivative which is legally available over-the-counter in the United States. It is most commonly found in cough suppressants, especially those with �DM� or �Tuss� in their names. It is almost always used orally, although pure DXM powder is occasionally snorted��

At this point you�re probably thinking � as I did at first � �how bad can this stuff be if it�s available over the counter!� However, as we�ll see, it�s actually startlingly dangerous stuff!

Erowid begins to hint at DXM�s seriousness in their �DXM Basics� discussion:

��High doses � are sometimes compared to the effects of other dissociatives such as PCP or ketamine��

Much more at the site. Any death is tragic but Martin stopped at the local 7-11 and purchased two of the three ingredients of 'lean' before he attacked George Zimmerman. Let's hope for a speedy trial and a complete acquittal.