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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): And we turn to the latest on the Trayvon Martin case and a charge just brought in that killing. Martin was shot and killed in a gated community in Sanford, Fla., in late February during a confrontation with George Zimmerman. The 17-year-old was unarmed. Zimmerman told police he'd acted in self-defense.
A short time ago, special prosecutor Angela Corey said she was charging Zimmerman with one count of second-degree murder and that he was now in custody.
Here's an excerpt from her press conference.
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"Prosecutor Files Charge of 2nd-Degree Murder in Shooting of Martin" by LIZETTE ALVAREZ and MICHAEL COOPER, New York Times 4/11/2012
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More than six weeks after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old with no criminal record, George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch coordinator at a small gated community in Sanford, Fla., was charged by a special prosecutor on Wednesday evening with second-degree murder and taken into custody.
The charges, which Mr. Martin’s family praised but called overdue, opened a new chapter in a case that set off a searing national discussion of racial profiling, Florida’s expansive self-defense law and the fairness of the criminal justice system.
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