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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"stand your ground" law that allowed a person who reasonably believed it necessary to use deadly force to prevent serious injury to himself, famous trials, george zimmerman ("trayvon martin") trial (2013), murder or a justifiable use of force by a man fearing for his life, trial courts

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• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)