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Race and reasonable doubt: Notes from the Sanford, Fla. verdict

Jonathan Simon, professor of law | July 15, 2013

The official media narrative is in.  The acquittal of wanna-bee neighborhood guardian George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin reflects the impenetrable wall that the law and the trial judge set up between the narrow legal questions of culpability and the broad social issues that had animated passions in the case: gun carrying … Continue reading »