exactly what george zimmerman knew about florida s stand your ground law and when he knew it were the focus of today s murder trial. phil keating has the latest from sanford tonight. you see george over here? how you doing, george? reporter: george zimmerman s former criminal professor took the stand today after the judge ruled they can bring back his past passion for pursuing a career in law phone respectment due to zimmerman s own words played for the jury yesterday from a sean hannity interview a year ago. prior to this night, this incident, had you even heard of the stand your ground? no, sir. you d never heard about it before? reporter: but zimmerman s former professor who gave zimmerman an a says he lectured stens differen extensively about the self-defense laugh. the students were very much engaged in class discussion regarding the issue. reporter: but on
burnett. breaking news, george zimmerman is behind bars after weeks of protest, outrage and demands for action, he s been arrested and charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. florida state attorney and special prosecutor angela corey announced the charges against the 28-year-old neighborhood watchman in sanford, florida. today we filed an information charging george zimmerman with murder in the second degree. a capias has been issued for his arrest. with the filing of that information and the issuance of the capias he will have a right to appear in front of a magistrate in seminole county within 24 hours of his arrest and thus formal prosecution will begin. corey has been conducting her own investigation into the shooting separate from that of the sanford police department and shortly after she announced the arrest, trayvon martin s family spoke. thank god. we simply wanted an arrest. we wanted nothing more, nothing less, w
information and the issuance of the capias he will have a right to appear in front of a magistrate in seminole county within 24 hours of his arrest and thus formal prosecution will begin. corey has been conducting her own investigation into the shooting separate from that of the sanford police department and shortly after she announced the arrest, trayvon martin s family spoke. thank god. we simply wanted an arrest. we wanted nothing more, nothing less, we just wanted an arrest and we got it. and i say thank you. thank you, lord. thank you, jesus. secondly, i just want to speak from my heart to your heart, because a heart has no color. it s not black, it s not white. it s red. and i want to say thank you from my heart to your heart. zimmerman according to the prosecutor turned himself in and is in custody, being held without bail although she would not say where. martin savage is in sanford tonight. good evening. what are people saying there tonight? is there any real r
admits to shooting and killing trayvon martin will be arrested and charged. special prosecutor angela corey has chosen not to use a grand jury to investigate the florida teenager s death. it is up to her to figure out whether to file charges against george zimmerman or drop the case altogether. as you can see there, peaceful protests and unrelenting protests marching to the sanford police department demanding an immediate arrest. david mattingly is live in sanford tonight. a lot of people say this was an unexpected move but not the family attorney. let s listen. anticipating that there will be no grand jury because the family has always been hopeful that they would there would simply be an arrest. we believe from day one that they had enough evidence to arrest the killer of trayvon martin. help us understand, david, why do they think this is good news? well, by going to a grand jury, it could have given off signals the prosecutor in this case wasn t 100% certain tha
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