The way the Florida law is written, as I understand it at least, nothing really matters up to the point when TM was punching GM and GM shot him. You are absolutely right that the situation could have been avoided, by both of them, but I don't think the jury should find him guilty the way the law is written...even of the new lesser offense. The outcome should then be Florida legislators trying to re-write/revoke the "Stand Your Ground" statute, if they haven't started working on that already.