{"id":7114,"date":"2013-07-14T02:38:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T02:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2013-07-14T02:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T02:38:27","slug":"zimmerman-acquitted-of-all-charges-in-trayvon-martin-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7114","title":{"rendered":"Zimmerman acquitted of all charges in Trayvon Martin murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7115\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/george_zimmerman_130711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7115\" alt=\"George Zimmerman\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/george_zimmerman_130711-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/george_zimmerman_130711-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/george_zimmerman_130711-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/george_zimmerman_130711.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Zimmerman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges on Saturday for the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in this central Florida town in February of last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If he had been convicted, the 29-year-old former neighborhood watch volunteer, who claimed he acted in self-defense, could have been sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder or up to 30 years for manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A panel of six women jurors rendered its verdict in the case, which sparked a national debate on issues including race and profiling, after a trial that began in Seminole County court on June 10. Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges on Saturday for the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in this central Florida town in February of last year. If he had been convicted, the 29-year-old former neighborhood watch volunteer, who claimed he acted in self-defense, could have been sentenced to life in prison for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zimmerman acquitted of all charges in Trayvon Martin murder case&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[325,40,65,324,2936],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-george-zimmerman","tag-murder","tag-race","tag-trayvon-martin","tag-trial"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/george_zimmerman_130711.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7117,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/7117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}