Orlando, Florida: The lawyers of George Zimmerman, accused of killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, have launched a “witch-hunt” by seeking the victim’s school and social media records, the family layer said on Monday.
“I think certainly it is a witch-hunt to try to find something to attack the character of a dead child and it’s completely irrelevant because his school records had nothing to do with him (George Zimmerman) shooting Trayvon Martin in the heart on February 26,” said Martin family attorney Ben Crump.
At the time of his death, Martin was spending a week with his father and father’s fiancée in a gated town-home community in Sanford, just north of Orlando.
He was walking back from a convenience store when Zimmerman called a 911 dispatcher and said the teen looked suspicious. Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense after he was attacked and Martin repeatedly slammed his head to the ground.
Barring a court order prohibiting the release of Martin’s school records, school district spokesman John Schuster said the records would be turned over to O’Mara.
“We will honour any subpoena, but we also notify the parents ahead of time before we do that,” Schuster said.
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