Breaking: Jurors Start Deliberations in George Zimmerman Case [View all]
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Source: Associated Press
@AP: BREAKING: Jurors leave courtroom to start deliberations in George Zimmerman murder trial.
JURORS START DELIBERATING GEORGE ZIMMERMAN CASE
By MIKE SCHNEIDER and KYLE HIGHTOWER
— Jul. 12 2:44 PM EDT
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A jury began deliberating George Zimmerman's fate Friday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a wannabe cop who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin because he feared for his life.
Before the jury got the case, Zimmerman's lawyers put a concrete slab and two life-size cardboard cutouts in front of the jury box in one last attempt to convince the panel Zimmerman shot the unarmed 17-year-old Martin in self-defense.
Attorney Mark O'Mara used the slab to make the point that it could be used as a weapon. He showed cutouts of Zimmerman and Martin to demonstrate that the teenager was considerably taller and he displayed a computer-animated depiction of the fight based on Zimmerman's account.
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In a rebuttal, prosecutor John Guy accused Zimmerman of telling "so many lies." He said Martin's last emotion was one of fear as Zimmerman followed him in a neighborhood of townhomes on a rainy night Feb. 26, 2012.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/final-arguments-wrap-zimmerman-trial
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