Makes sense.

The prosecutors railroading someone who legitimately defended himself under Florida's Castle Doctrine laws want his attacker's past--which would help build a picture of a dangerous criminal instead of the innocent, black choir boy facing a slavering, racist, gun-happy bigot that the media would prefer to see--kept out of the trial.

I am so sick of shit like this.  Throw it all out there: Zimmerman was an idiot, and Martin was a thug.  Let the law and the jury decide what is and isn't relevant.