December 17, 2013 Comments Off on Md. beating defendant on path to clearing record
A former member of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group who was convicted in the 2010 beating of a black teenager in Baltimore is on a path to having his record expunged after a hearing Tuesday. Eliyahu Werdesheim received a ...
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Read More »November 26, 2013 Comments Off on Zimmerman’s weapon inventory: shotgun, rifle, 3 handguns, 100 rounds
SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman had five guns and more than 100 rounds of ammunition with him when deputies arrested him earlier this month on domestic violence charges, according to court documents released Tuesday. A search warrant made public by ...
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Read More »August 28, 2013 Comments Off on George Zimmerman’s wife pleads guilty to perjury
SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman’s wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying during a bail hearing after her husband’s arrest, and she was sentenced to a year’s probation and 100 hours of community service. Shellie Zimmerman, ...
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Read More »July 22, 2013 Comments Off on Law blog roundup
The George Zimmerman case is not over for its prosecutors.
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Read More »July 18, 2013 Comments Off on James B. Astrachan and Elizabeth Kameen: Trayvon Martin debate has not ended
The verdict in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial means different things to different observers. Lawyers, other than the prosecution team, have pretty much universally declared that the state of Florida produced insufficient evidence at trial to convict Zimmerman of any crime, let alone second-degree murder, which required the prosecutors to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman murdered Martin evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life.
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Read More »July 18, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: We’re not ‘there’ yet on race in America
Attorney General Eric Holder says we need a national conversation about race. He wants to seize the moment provided by the death of Trayvon Martin and by the trial of George Zimmerman.
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Read More »July 18, 2013 Comments Off on You should write a book about it
Are you OK with jurors publishing books about their experiences?
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Read More »July 17, 2013 1 Comment
What to do when every social media account now seems to come with a shiny new law degree.
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Read More »July 16, 2013 Comments Off on Feds to sift through evidence in Zimmerman case
MIAMI — The Justice Department will sift through trial testimony, interviews and other evidence during what is likely to be a months-long investigation into whether George Zimmerman violated Trayvon Martin’s civil rights when he shot the black teenager. The key ...
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Read More »July 16, 2013 Comments Off on Juror: Zimmerman jury was initially split
MIAMI — As they began deliberating in George Zimmerman’s murder trial, three of the six jurors wanted to acquit him while the other three wanted to convict him of either murder or manslaughter, one of the jurors said. The six-woman ...
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