The Department of Justice will reportedly announce that it will not bring federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman over Zimmerman’s self-defense killing of Trayvon Martin, reports ABC News. This decision comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the actual facts of the case. ...
And though I am not a lawyer, I just got the sense that whenever the judge did rule in favor of the defense she was legally forced to do so because of case law precedent.Just a layman’s observation. God Bless George Zimmerman and win,lose or draw, this guy’s life going forward ...
On February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. Martin was an African American teenager and 28-year-old Zimmerman is a man of mixed ethnicity (Latino and white American). Martin, who was unarmed, had been walking to the home of his father's girl...
While O'Mara said they would actually like to move the case ahead more quickly, one of the other things complicating that desire is a lack of money in Zimmerman's legal defense fund. O'Mara said the fund had about $60,000 in it, with $20,000 in bills that need to be paid. If Z...
The apology came after Zimmerman's defense attorney, Mark O'Mara, questioned an investigator for the special prosecutor, sentence by sentence, about a probable cause affidavit the investigator signed outlining certain facts in the case. Investigator Dale Gilbreath testified that he does not know wheth...
If the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case is to have value beyond its immediate facts, it is important to consider the case through a broad lens that enc... TF Lawson - 《Social Science Electronic Publishing》 被引量: 11发表: 2012年 Narrations of the Shooting Death of Trayvon Martin and...
Recently, I was struck by Eric Holder’s comment on the George Zimmerman versus Trayvon Martin case in Florida. Talking about his son and the fears of African-American fathers for their teenage sons, Holder said: "I am his father and it is my responsibility, not to burden him with the ...
“It’s been hard to really digest the verdict,” Turner Clayton, president of the Seminole County branch of the NAACP, located in Sanford. Sanford has essentially been a town divided since Martin’s death, and perhaps more so since Zimmerman’s acquittal. Clayton said the NAACP will sponsor...
Until the murder of George Floyd I really don’t think that most of White Americans paid little attention to years of violence committed against Blacks: the murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, the massacre at Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by Dylan Roof, the...
And he told them nothing that could be used against Zimmerman. OR there was no call and he’s making it all up. Flimsy witness to build a case upon. – But, of course, the point is NOT to indict George, but rather to remind black voters that Whitey is out to get them and they ...