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8 May 2016, 5:08 am
A third factor listed in the Senate study advocating for the SB 228 is questions raised concerning Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law that grabbed intense scrutiny following the George Zimmerman case in the shooting Trayvon Martin. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 8:40 am
Harris (University of Pittsburgh - School of Law) has posted The Dangers of Racialized Perceptions and Thinking by Law Enforcement (In DEADLY INJUSTICE: TRAYVON MARTIN, RACE, AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, Devon Johnson, Patricia Y. [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 4:23 am
The movement by hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, was born following the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 7:03 am
Clinton is set to campaign with the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, unarmed African-Americans who died in incidents involving law enforcement officers and a neighborhood watch representative, respectively. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 6:36 am
And so we turn to South Carolina. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm
Juror B29 said that, after the verdict, she felt a lot of sympathy towards the family of Trayvon Martin and reportedly felt like “she owes Martin’s parents an apology. [read post]
30 Dec 2015, 10:48 am
And it will follow the same track as the George Zimmerman trial, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in 2012. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 9:58 am
University of Texas, the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of Trayvon Martin began in Florida. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 12:54 pm
So just like Trayvon Martin and all those other souls who got what the NRA reserved for them, we have to be ready to shoot first and ask questions later. [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 12:09 am
When that protestor was pepper sprayed by an abortion supporter for exercising his First Amendment rights, the Criminal Section did nothing.Consider as well the 2012 case of Trayvon Martin, a young man who was shot in an encounter with a neighborhood watch member. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 5:01 am
Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and the Resistance to Blacks as Neighbors, 95 B.U. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 8:08 am
The volunteer neighborhood watchman shot teenage Trayvon Martin. [read post]
6 Sep 2015, 5:46 pm
Brodin (Boston College - Law School) has posted The Murder of Black Males in a World of Non-Accountability: The Surreal Trial of George Zimmermann for the Killing of Trayvon Martin on SSRN. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 5:00 am
Just a year earlier a Florida jury had acquitted a white vigilante for the murder Trayvon Martin, and much of the public debate on Martin’s killing centered on the news media’s choices of images: a hooded menace or a sweet kid. [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 8:44 am
These mishaps began to enter the public consciousness with the Rodney King video release, and continue through situations like the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 4:32 am
With the dash-cam video of Sandra Bland being forcibly removed out of her car, simply because she refused to put out a cigarette, some context is needed in regards to similar tragedies spanning from Rodney King and Trayvon Martin to Eric Garner and John Crawford. [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 2:16 pm
Gowdy said, [relevant remarks being around 6:15] “the president said that he saw Trayvon — in Trayvon Martin, he saw his son. [read post]
19 Jul 2015, 10:16 am
We have seen this time and again -- for example, when Obama reflexively (and, he later acknowledged, inappropriately) blamed the white police officer in the confrontation with black Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates; and when he said that Trayvon Martin, "could have been my son" well before all the facts of that episode were known. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 11:30 am
Michael Heyman Lost in Translation: Criminal Jury Trials in the United States Abstract: Two features of the jury instructions in the Trayvon Martin case combined to make acquittal a virtual certainty: The court's failure to instruct the jury on the aggressor limitation on self-defense and its instruction on the so-called Stand Your Ground rule. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 6:51 am
The mass murder of parishioners at the historic Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina law week, by a young white supremacist intensified the already profound national conversation about racism and violence that has been building since the killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012. [read post]
