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*New developments in the Travyon Martin murder trial have sent the court up in a frenzy. According to reports, the slain teen was texting a friend about fighting and smoking marijuana. Texts also included photos of a gun and what appeared to be a marijuana plant. The information comes from George Zimmerman’s camp, in a [...]
*George Zimmerman’s attorney is asking the judge permission to use Trayvon Martin’s marijuana use in the case. Previously, the presiding judge declared the slain teen’s recreational drug use off limits. George Zimmerman’s attorney filed a motion Monday claiming that Martin likely was under the influence of marijuana at the time of his death in February [...]
*In an attempt to prove his innocence, George Zimmerman’s attorneys are now challenging the science of state voice recognition experts. In a new motion, defense attorney Mark O’Mara wrote that those unnamed experts may be using phony science, so the judge should hold a hearing, listen to evidence about how they did their work, then decide whether [...]
*As expected, former neighborhood watchman and killer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, waived his right to the stand your ground law to claim self-defense. He was asked in a series of questions whether or not he understood that he was giving up the right to a hearing before his second-degree murder trial in June. [...]
*Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called out a variety of media outlets on Tuesday for trying to “do to Dzhokhar [Tsarnaev] what they did to Trayvon Martin,” reports Mediaite. He said that showing images of Tsarnaev at 14-years-old is an effort to humanize him and frame him as a “normal” or “mixed-up kid,” rather than [...]
*A Florida police officer accused of bringing targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a gun range has been fired. He has since released a YouTube video responding to the allegations against him. [Scroll down to watch.] Port Canaveral Interim Chief Executive Officer John Walsh told WFTV on Saturday that Sgt. Ron King was leading a target [...]
*The parents of Trayvon Martin have settled in a wrongful-death suit against the homeowners association of the Sanford, Fla. gated community where neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, gunned down the teen. Rumors say the settlement is more than $1M, but the amount has been redacted on public documents, reports the Chicago Tribune. Tracy Martin and Sybrina [...]
*Robert Zimmerman Jr.’s at it again. People who say ignorant things think that it’s Ok to say them and then later get a spot on television to later apologize? If you’re really sorry, you wouldn’t have said it in the first place. Robert, the eldest brother of accused killer, George Zimmerman, got on CNN’s “Piers [...]
*George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert Zimmerman Jr., has created a firestorm on Twitter with his bizarre defense on behalf of his sibling, comparing Trayvon Martin to an alleged baby killer. Robert Zimmerman took to the social network on Sunday, sharing a photo of De’Marquis Elkins, a teen charged with the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old in [...]
*George Zimmerman feels his life is in danger so he wears a disguise or body armor in public. According to his attorney, he doesn’t feel safe without it. Zimmerman remains in hiding and “can’t go out in public without wearing a disguise or body armor,” defense attorney Mark O’Mara told CNN. Zimmerman admitted to shooting [...]
*On April 18, 2012, I started writing a editorial on the murder of Trayvon Martin. It had been almost 4 months since Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. I waited so long because I initially refused to write a single word on the affair because it hit so close [...]
*In June, the Trayvon Martin trial against George Zimmerman will begin and hopefully this tragedy will come to a conclusion that will appease the country. But, trial or no trial, the Martin family will never see their child again and even a conviction will not bring their child back. The Martin family has planned a [...]
*Trayvon Martin’s mother is a model of hope and strength as she awaits the verdict of trial against her child’s killer, George Zimmerman. Sybrina Fulton told an audience at a town hall meeting on violence and racial harmony in Cincinnati that she’s prepared for anything. “My son’s life was cut down short. He had a [...]
*This morning on the Tom Joyner Morning Show (TJMS) contributor Roland Martin spoke with Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother, the teen who was fatally shoot by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. Fulton spoke about keeping “her son’s legacy alive” in her first interview since her son’s posthumous 18th birthday. Family attorney Ben Crump provided [...]
*This trial for the killer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin could be delayed even further. It’ll be almost a year ago that the black teen was walking home on a dark evening in Stafford, Fla and was fatally shot. George Zimmerman is the gunman, a neighborhood watchman who initially claimed he was defending himself, despite orders [...]
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