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Second week of Zimmerman trial begins tomorrow SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The first week of George Zimmerman’s seconddegree murder trial closed Friday. At the start of the week, prosecutors and defense attorneys outlined their cases for the jury of six women. Then prosecutors began putting on their case. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty. He has said he fatally shot 17-yearold Trayvon Martin in February 2012 in self-defense. Beginning Monday, prosecutors will continue presenting their case for a second week. They are likely to call forensic experts and other investigators before defense attorneys get a chance to put on their witnesses. Here are five key moments from the past week. EXPLETIVES AND A KNOCK-KNOCK JOKE Both came in opening statements. Prosecutor John Guy repeated racially charged words Zimmerman allegedly had uttered under his breath to a police dispatcher as he followed Martin. In the courtroom, jaws dropped and spectators looked around at one another.
Defense attorney Don West began his statement with a knock-knock joke about the difficulty of picking a jury in the case. Even he admitted the joke sounded weird. RACHEL JEANTEL VS. DON WEST Jeantel was on the phone with Martin moments before his confrontation with Zimmerman and is considered a key prosecution witnesses. She testified that Martin told her he was being followed by “a creepy-ass cracker.” But it was her testy cross-examination exchanges with West that commanded the most attention. Each asked the other to repeat what they were saying many times. At one moment, Jeantel urged West to move on to his next question: “You can go. You can go.” On her second day on the stand, she seemed more subdued. West asked her, “You feeling OK today? You seem different than yesterday.” ‘GROUND AND POUND’ Even though he was called Friday by the prosecution, John Good, a former neighbor of Zimmerman, gave testimony that seemed to bolster
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Sanford police officer Timothy Smith holds up the gun that was used to kill Trayvon Martin, while testifying in the 15th day of the George Zimmerman trial, in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Friday.
the defense contention that Martin was on top of Zimmerman in the fight. Good said he saw Martin straddling Zimmerman in manner similar to a mixed-martial art maneuver known as “ground and pound.” 911 CALLS The 911 calls made by neighbors were repeatedly played for jurors. Neighbors asked police to respond as
moans for help followed by a gunshot are heard. A series of neighbors testified about what they heard of the fight, and then prosecutors played corresponding 911 calls as witnesses sat on the stand. Some neighbors teared up as they heard their panicked voices. MARTIN’S PARENTS ON RACE Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, Martin’s
parents, held a news conference Thursday in which their attorney said they didn’t want race injected into the trial. Some reporters asked why the nation’s most prominent black civil rights had been invited to Sanford to demand Zimmerman’s arrest if race wasn’t an issue. But attorney Daryl Parks said at this stage of the case, it shouldn’t be a factor.
Third suspect in Steelers lineman stabbing back in Pa. PITTSBURGH (AP) — A third suspect in the late-night stabbing of Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Mike Adams who was apprehended in Florida has been returned to Pennsylvania to face charges in the case. Authorities said 26-year-old Jerrell Whitlock arrived at Pittsburgh police headquarters Friday afternoon. Police said officers in Florida used a stun gun on Whitlock after he tried to flee through a back door in his Gainesville motel room earlier this month. He was being sought on charges of attempted robbery, aggravated assault and conspiracy since Adams was stabbed twice in a June 1 attempted carjacking on Pittsburgh’s South Side.
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Difficult to determine size of spill NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal judge presiding over a trial arising from the nation’s worst offshore oil spill said Thursday that it could be difficult to determine how much crude spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s blownout well in 2010. “That is not an easy task,” U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier noted during a hearing. “There was no meter on that well.” Barbier heard testimony earlier this year for the trial’s first phase about the possible causes of the deadly disaster. Determining how much oil spilled into the Gulf is a topic for the trial’s second phase, set to begin Sept. 16. London-based BP PLC and the federal government have very different estimates on the size of the spill. The federal government estimates more than 200 million gallons spewed from the well, including more than 34 million gallons that were collected. BP expert Martin Blunt, a professor of petroleum engineering at Imperial College in London, claims the government overestimated the size of the spill by 26 to 42 percent. The April 20, 2010, blowout triggered an explosion that killed 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. BP finally stopped the flow of oil after 86 days. Earlier this week, BP placed a full-page advertisement in three of America’s largest newspapers as the company mounted an aggressive campaign to challenge what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts.
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Members of the gallery cheer and chant, Wednesday, as the Texas Senate tries to bring an abortion bill to a vote as time expires, in Austin, Texas. The damage left by the raucous scene of an out-of-control Senate broadcast to world via the Internet and social media has made Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst a target for blame among political rivals within his own party who wonder why the presiding officer of the chamber let it happen.
Dewhurst: Abortion bill won’t fail again GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst promised Saturday that a bill toughening abortion restrictions would not be derailed again after screaming protesters this week drowned out state senators and ran out the clock on a vote. In a new special session that starts July 1, lawmakers will take up the anti-abortion bill again after failing to pass it by midnight Tuesday. Political rivals have questioned Dewhurst’s leadership in the Senate and blamed him for the bill’s collapse — a chaotic scene broadcast over the Internet. Dewhurst said Saturday after speaking at
the National Right to Life Convention that next time, he’ll move to have protesters thrown out if they become disorderly. He said he had tried to get them out Tuesday, though outnumbered troopers in the Capitol were not seen removing most protesters until the early hours of Wednesday. “Believe me,” Dewhurst told reporters. “I have spent most of my time between about 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning and through yesterday making sure that when I give the order ... to clear the gallery, it gets done.” The bill would place new restrictions on abortion clinics and ban the procedure after the 20th week of pregnancy.
In his speech, Dewhurst ripped the crowds opposing a vote as driven by “hatred” and “mob rule.” He called on antiabortion activists to fill hearing rooms and galleries during the next session as their opponents have done, and use social media to broadcast their support using the hashtag “#stand4life.” As for State Sen. Wendy Davis, whose 11-hour filibuster delayed the vote on the session’s final day and put her in the national spotlight, Dewhurst said, “No human being can talk for two weeks. This bill is going to pass.” He told reporters he would move quickly on the bill to keep it out of “filibuster range.”
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