He's eventually going to end up in jail, like OJ. It's funny these folks who claim that being found 'not guilty' is the end of discussion or thought on the issue when they are people who most likely believed the Simpson trial ending in a not guilty verdict was all wrong. Reality means nothing to these people: it's all about what they want to believe, not what is truth.
I think it's more than that. Sometimes the issue becomes bigger than the man.
In the case of OJ, the reason why he was acquitted was that he became a symbol of a racial divide in L.A. in particular, where you had the Rodney King beating, you had Chief Gates arguing choke-holding black men was okay because they were anotomically different, etc. So O.J., who pretty much at that point in his life was mostly hanging out with and having sex with white people was now seen as a symbol of "injustice", when in fact, he was guilty as a cat in a canary cage. once they proved that Fuhrman said one of the two words we can't use on USMB, evidence was irrelvant.
In the case of Zimmerman, we have a gun culture that sincerely believes that Guns empower them in a world they no longer control. Forget that a gun in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a member of your family than a bad guy. it's the ILLUSION they are in love with.
Zimmerman was living the dream. Ignore the fact he had been arrested a number of times before and after the incident for violent acts. Forget the fact that Trayvon had no crimnal record. He was a Second Amendment enthusiast defending himself against an urban thug.
If Zimmerman is guilty, people might have to question the gun culture.