My opinion:

1) I think it would be appropriate for him to either do jail time, or wear an ankle bracelet for a year or so.
With giving him anything less than the maximum sentence (dependent on him getting court-appointed counseling) with regular evaluations that determine whether he remains out of jail.
And possibly the condition that he has to live with his parents or relatives, to insure he has proper supervision until he has resolved his clear issues.

2) The more likely outcome, he has set up a situation where it is a "he said/she said" that gives him plausible deniability, and this will get him acquitted, or off with a very minor sentence, and his deeper issues will be left unresolved.
Meaning we'll see him back in court on another charge in a few months.



If I were Zimmerman, after his acquittal for the Trayvon Martin shooting, I would have moved to Idaho or Alaska or North Dakota, someplace far away from black America, where I wouldn't even need to carry a gun in self defense.
Or maybe his native Ecuador, or Europe, someplace where no one knows him, where he could let his notoriety in the U.S. die down for a few years, before coming back with a new and unrecognizable look.

But then, I wouldn't go out looking for punks who always get away with it, or slapping women around, in the first place.