Source: Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel Defense attorneys in the George Zimmerman case today released evidence they discovered onTrayvon Martin‘s cell phone, including text messages in which he wrote about taking part in organized fights. The new evidence also includes texts in which he wrote that his mother had just kicked him out of the [...]
Source: Rene Stutzman / Orlando Sentinel Defense attorneys have just released scores of new photos as they prepare for the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial, including new photos of the clothes he and Trayvon Martin wore the night they got into a fight and Zimmerman killed the teenager. Those new photos were taken by Zimmerman’s defense team in August [...]
Source: CBS Miami SANFORD – The prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder case requested that some of Trayvon Martin’s personal information stay out of the courtroom. Zimmerman faces second-degree murder charges for the shooting death of Martin, 17, in a Sanford housing community. Zimmerman claims the shooting was in self defense. Martin was unarmed at the [...]
Source: Erin Donaghue / CBS News George Zimmerman told a judge in court Tuesday morning that he will not seek a “stand your ground” immunity hearing before his trial on charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, is accused of shooting Martin in a gated Sanford, [...]
Source: John Bacon and Yamiche Alcindor / USA Today A Florida police officer fired for bringing targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a gun range apologized to the shooting victim’s family “for being used as a pawn in somebody’s political agenda” but said the targets are a valuable training tool. Police Sgt. Ron King denied claims by [...]
Source: Lauren Effron / ABC News The parents of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin clashed with emotional statements today, the one year anniversary of the Zimmerman’s arrest for shooting the unarmed Florida teenager. Zimmerman’s mother Gladys Zimmerman posted a two page letter online saying that her son was innocent and was arrested “solely to placate the masses.” Hours [...]
Source: Julia Dahl / CBS News The older brother of George Zimmerman, the man accused of killing Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, posted an image on Twitter comparing the deceased teen to an alleged Ga. baby-killer. On March 24, Robert Zimmerman, Jr., tweeted an image of Martin alongside one of De’Marquise Kareem Elkins, the 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting one-year-old [...]
RACIAL INEQUALITY IN THE LGBT EQUALITY MOVEMENT, HAZING DEATH OF ROBERT CHAMPION AND BANKERS TOO BIG TO JAIL ARE AMONG THE TOPICS ON MARCH 10 WASHINGTON WATCH WITH ROLAND MARTIN Topics to include: the hazing death of Robert Champion; inequality within the LGBT community; prosecuting big banks and George Zimmerman waives his right to ‘Stand [...]
Source: Vivian Kuo and Josh Levs / CNN The state’s chief witness in the Trayvon Martin murder case lied under oath, prosecutors say. The young woman who says she was on the phone with Martin when he encountered George Zimmerman lied about her whereabouts at another time, the prosecution told a judge Tuesday. The woman, whose name has [...]
Source: Scott Hiaasen / Miami Herald Lawyers for George Zimmerman on Tuesday canceled an expected hearing to try to have his murder charge dismissed under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law — all but ensuring that Zimmerman will go to trial in June for the shooting death of Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, the neighborhood [...]
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