The jury who has been deliberating over the case of Michael Dunn, who has been accused of killing teenage boy Jordan Davis and injuring other minors, requested evidence for review on Wednesday, a CNN report said.
Crime stories inundated "the headlines in 2013 like no year in recent history," according to The Huffington Post. "In the past 12 months, we've seen the Boston Marathon bombing, the release of three kidnapped women who were held in Cleveland, and the verdict of George Zimmerman,"
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the Stand-Your-Ground laws in Florida must be amended and reviewed.
Former NBA superstar Charles Barkley said that he agrees with the not guilty verdict handed out to George Zimmerman last week, but blasted the media for giving platform for racists to "vent" their ignorance.
One of the six female jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman on Saturday night said she had 'no doubt' the neighborhood watchman feared for his life before shooting and killing Trayvon Martin, she said in an interview with CNN. The woman, who was identified as Jury B37, is the fist juror to speak publicly about the case
Several protesters were arrested over the weekend as demonstrators expressed outrage over George Zimmerman's acquittal in his second degree murder trial.
George Zimmerman's attorney Mark O'Mara told jurors Friday in closing argument that his defense team has proven the neighborhood watch volunteer's "pure, unadulterated innocence" of second-degree murder when he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
As the end of the second week approaches in the George Zimmerman trial, Seminole Court Judge Debra Nelson asked the defendant whether he will testify as part of the courtroom drama. After consultation with his defense team, Zimmerman decided that he will not take the stand. His defense team also planned to rest later on Wednesday afternoon.
A forensic expert testified on Tuesday that 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's gunshot wound indicated that he was likely on top of George Zimmerman when the neighborhood watch volunteer shot and killed him
The George Zimmerman Trial on Friday involved testimony from the associate medical examiner Shiping Bao, an expert in forensic pathology who has performed more than 3,000 autopsies during his career
During the George Zimmerman trial on Friday, Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton said she recognized the screaming on the 911 audio call was coming from her son on the night of the shooting, CNN reported. The defense attorney Mark O'Mara asked Fulton if she had no doubt that it was her son screaming.
On Monday, jurors heard George Zimmerman tell police what happened the night he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Also on Monday, the two investigators who questioned him about why he followed Martin and why he never told him he was with the neighborhood watch, CBS News reported.
Jonathan Good, a neighbor of George Zimmerman who says he may have had the best view of the tussle leading up to Trayvon Martin's murder, began his testimony at the neighborhood watchman's trial on Friday, saying that it appeared the unarmed teen was straddling Zimmerman during their confrontation
Rachel Jeantel, a teenage friend of Trayvon Martin, was forced to admit that she did not write a letter that was sent to the victim's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with him moments before he was shot.
Jurors in the George Zimmerman trial saw photos of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's body on Tueusday during police testimony about the night of the shooting, the Orlando Sentinel reported. The first state witness called this afternoon was Sanford police Sgt. Anthony Raimondo, one of the first officers to arrive at the scene after the shooting.
Opening statements began on Monday morning in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial. More than a year after the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin sparked controversy across the country, prosecution and defense lawyers will finally get to outline their cases to a Florida jury. The proceedings have now begun, following nine days of jury selection, in hopes of finding objective candidates.
Round two of jury selection for George Zimmerman's trial began on Wednesday, with attorneys questioning a group of 40 potential jurors in the hope of finding a panel to try the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. For the first time since the trial began, Zimmerman's parents and sister were present in the courtroom.
Jury selection in George Zimmerman's murder resumed in Sanford Florida on Friday, following four days of interviews with different potential jurors, the Huffington Post reported. Zimmerman began his second-degree murder trial earlier this week for the the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, which occurred late February last year.
Attorneys trying to seat a jury in George Zimmerman's trial for shooting an unarmed teen stopped questioning a man in his 20s Wednesday after he gave answers that indicated he would not be impartial, the Associated Press reported. The juror, known as "R-39," said that "murder is murder," even if it's self-defense.
Jury selection entered a second day on Tuesday in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial in Sanford Florida. Zimmerman was charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, as was walking back to the home of his father's fiancee from a convenience store on February 26, 2012.
