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27 Mar 2018, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
A big piece by Mike Spies in the New Yorker on the history of Florida as a battlefield on gun issues asserts that 1) Florida enacted the nation’s first Stand Your Ground law in the early 2000s, and broadly hints that 2) the law resulted in a jury’s 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 8:18 pm by Pate & Johnson Law Firm
I think the state,… The post George Zimmerman Trial Analysis appeared first on Pate & Johnson Law Firm. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 9:29 am by Steve Gottlieb
Trayvon Martin never threatened George Zimmerman even if he convinced a bizarre jury that he was in reasonable fear, but Zimmerman had a gun which made it easy to shoot a man in the back. [read post]
11 Feb 2018, 9:08 am by Jonathan H. Adler
By this standard it would be defamatory to express the opinion that George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson is a murderer, even if one also argued that the reason either was exonerated was because of structural racism in the criminal-justice system. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 11:56 am by Kevin
As the report mentions, this is the same law invoked (successfully) by George Zimmerman after he shot Trayvon Martin in 2012, allegedly in self-defense. [read post]
10 Oct 2017, 6:02 am by Damon Kitchen
In July 2013, much of the nation – particularly central Florida – was reeling from the controversial verdict acquitting George Zimmerman of murder in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 11:18 am by Shorstein, Lasnetski & Gihon
Most people are aware of the Florida Stand Your Ground law as it received a lot of notoriety during the George Zimmerman case and other cases in Florida since then. [read post]
24 Aug 2017, 7:30 am by Joy Waltemath
Around that same time, George Zimmerman was being tried in a neighboring county for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. [read post]
24 Aug 2017, 3:30 am by Eric B. Meyer
Shortly after the County adopted a zero-tolerance policy and right around the time of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman trial, Mr. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 8:45 am by Harold O'Grady
In the introduction, Davis invokes the names of numerous dead black males, placing special emphasis on the killing of Trayvon Martin five years ago by George Zimmerman. [read post]
11 May 2017, 6:39 pm by Benson Varghese
Gary Winter, Michelle Harris, Michael McHugh and George Baluzy are the editors. [read post]
5 May 2017, 3:00 am by SOG Staff
 According to WRAL, Florida attorney Mark O’Mara, best known for representing George Zimmerman, is representing the owner of the restaurant. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 8:00 am by Daniel Perlman
It came as the result of the Florida state acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. [read post]
2 Jan 2017, 7:03 am by Howard Iken
  Firm Partners Howard Iken and Alberto Ayo finished up a divorce case for one of the more iconic individuals of the decade – George Zimmerman. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 6:10 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and the Resistance to Blacks as Neighbors. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 10:40 am by Jonathan H. Adler
By this standard it would be defamatory to express the opinion that George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson is a murderer, even if one also argued that the reason either was exonerated was because of structural racism in the criminal-justice system. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 4:39 am
But the nation hung transfixed about the trials and acquittals of George Zimmerman and Casey Anthony, cases that are not the norm in criminal court.There was an old time circuit judge  who used to mentor new judges by telling them they could rule however they wanted in 98% of the cases that came before them, but in the other 2% of the cases, they had to satisfy the public, the police and the prosecutors with favorable rulings and a stiff sentence.The character of a judge… [read post]
25 Nov 2016, 6:05 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Under Mann’s theory, George Zimmerman could sue anyone who claimed he “got away with murder” after killing Trayvon Martin. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 2:53 pm by Leigh Swigart
Using as a point of departure the problematic 2013 criminal trial of George Zimmerman – tainted, according to language scholar John Rickford, by jury ignorance and bias around African American language and culture – I examine the potential for similar “mismatches” between fact-finders and persons appearing before the court in processes of international criminal justice. [read post]