New evidence Thursday in Trayvon Martin shooting
More evidence in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin is set for public release Thursday morning, prosecutors said Monday.
A recent court filing shows the documents include statements from several new civilian witnesses, reports generated by the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Zimmerman's prior calls to police and his application for a concealed weapon permit
The evidence also includes a sketch of the crime scene, as well as notes and memos from various investigators.
Defense attorney Mark O'Mara received the evidence last month. It will be released to the media 10 a.m. Thursday. George Zimmerman faces a second-degree murder charge in the Feb. 26 shooting. He says he shot the Miami Gardens teen in self-defense.
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Sanford, Fla., police took one position on Trayvon shooting in public, another in paperwork to prosecutors
SANFORD, Fla. While publicly saying one thing that they did not have enough evidence to arrest George Zimmerman Sanford, Fla., police did essentially the opposite: filing paperwork saying they had enough to charge him with manslaughter.
Its something the department kept secret for two months, according to documents recently released by the special prosecutor in the case.
Here are their words versus their actions on three key dates, all from one tumultuous week about two weeks after Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old:
At 4 p.m. March 12, Sanford police Chief Bill Lee Jr. stood in City Hall plaza in front of a hostile crowd and dozens of reporters and insisted his agency could not arrest Zimmerman because investigators had failed to establish probable cause, the minimal standard of evidence to justify filing a criminal case.
The next day, however, his agency sent prosecutors paperwork saying it did have probable cause and asked that they charge Zimmerman with manslaughter
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