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Famous Trials: George Zimmerman ("Trayvon Martin") Trial (2013)

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Trayvon Martin was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Walking back from a 7-Eleven to the Sanford, Florida townhouse of his father's fiancee on a dark and rainy February evening in 2012, Martin aroused the suspicions of neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Martin's death and one of the most intensely followed trials of the twenty-first century--a trial that provoked arguments about America's gun culture and racial profiling. The trial was a debate over whether Martin's death was murder or a justifiable use of force by a man fearing for his life.

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