By noon on Saturday the six women that will decide if George Zimmerman committed a crime when he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin entered their sixth hour of deliberation in Sanford, Fla., according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Protesters who showed up to the Seminole County courthouse to hear a verdict were outnumbered by members of the media also anticipating a verdict. Only 20 demonstrators showed up with three of them showing up to support Zimmerman, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

Now that all of the evidence is in and both sides have made their cases people across the country are making prognostications as to what decision they think the jury will make, or in the case of the more fiery opinions out there, what decision they think the jury should make. Was the state able to prove that Zimmerman is guilty of a crime? 

The following snippets represent solely the opinion of the authors. Feel free to share your thoughts on the case in the comments.

In a piece in the Orange County Register Marc Steyn argues that the Zimmerman trial has exposed how absurd aspects of the judicial system can be.

"In real justice systems, the state decides what crime has been committed and charges somebody with it. In the Zimmerman trial, the state's 'theory of the case' is that it has no theory of the case: Might be murder, might be manslaughter, might be aggravated assault, might be a zillion other things, but it's something. If you're a juror, feel free to convict George Zimmerman of whatever floats your boat."

Miller Francis wrote an article for CNN asking the same question that prosecutor John Guy asked in his rebuttal to the defense's closing argument, why couldn't Martin stand his ground against a man stalking him?

"We're told over and over that if Zimmerman was afraid of Martin, according to Florida law, he had the right to put a bullet in the chamber of his concealed handgun, get out of his car after being told not to by the 911 dispatcher and follow and confront Martin and shoot him to death. At the same time, we are told that Martin, who had far greater reason to fear Zimmerman, practically and for reasons of American history, did not have the right to confront his  stalker, stand his ground and defend himself, including by using his fists. We are told that this was entirely unjustified and by doing so, Martin justified his own execution."

In an article for Politico Rich Lowry argues that the Zimmerman case never should have taken on the political and racial overtones that it did. Lowry calls it "a morality play that failed."

"The most poisonous interpretation of Zimmerman's conduct - that he sought out and assassinated a black kid for being a black kid - was never plausible. Assassins generally don't call the police before closing in and gunning down their targets. But it looks positively ridiculous in light of all the evidence suggesting that right before Zimmerman fired, Martin was beating Zimmerman, not the other way around."

 An opinion piece printed in the New York Daily News argues that Mark O'Mara's theory that Martin could have prevented the murder if he had just decided to go home was brazen and that it was Zimmerman who is to blame for the altercation, regardless of who threw the first punch.

"Since no one else alive witnessed the fight, the only word anyone has is the killer's. Plus his lawyer's blame-the-victim contention that everything went wrong because Martin didn't just walk home. After Zimmerman groundlessly presumed the worst about a teenager who was doing nothing wrong. After Zimmerman took it upon himself to play cop after the real cops told him to stand down. After Zimmerman brought a gun to a confrontation that could easily escalate to a fatality. Whatever the jury's verdict, Zimmerman started it that night - and finished it with a bullet."

The jury will continue deliberating until they have decided on a verdict. There are three possibilities that the jury can come up with: guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of manslaughter, or not guilty. HNGN will have complete coverage once a verdict is announced.