Police had declined to arrest him that night, saying there wasn't enough evidence to refute his self-defense claim.
"If you're the first aggressor, if you are pursuing, you cannot avail yourself of this self-defense claim, " she said.
First, while the prosecution was unconvinced by Zimmerman's self-defense claim, he is still entitled to present it to the jury at trial.
"This (fighting) evidence is admissible in support of Mr. Zimmerman's self-defense claim regarding the abilities and capacity of Trayvon Martin as an experienced fighter, " Zimmerman's attorneys wrote.
The family's attorney, Benjamin Crump, calls the self-defense claim preposterous.
'" She contends that a vast amount of evidence released since the shooting supports her son's self-defense claim, but most media outlets have avoided its publication and turned him into a "mythological monster.
In addition, although Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder, even if the jury rejects the self-defense claim and believes the killing was homicide, they may choose to convict of a "lesser included offense" such as manslaughter.
Martin's family and the special prosecutor appointed to investigate the case have rejected Zimmerman's self-defense claim, saying they believe Zimmerman disregarded the police dispatcher who advised him to stop following Martin, racially profiled the young man and unjustly killed him.
And if you are thinking you would just claim self-defense, that is not likely to work if you set up the duel ahead of time.
"The police claim self-defence but the evidence was crystal clear, he was shot in the back and the evidence presented by the police is not at all credible, " she said.
But Druker said that he believes Gonzales' claim of self-defense fell apart because he already had subdued the boys.
If there are no comparable bruises or grass stains and if the bullet wound and powder residue establish that the gun was fired at very close range, this too might support a claim of self-defense.
Sanford police initially declined to arrest Zimmerman, saying there was no evidence to contradict his claim of self-defense under Florida's "stand your ground" law, which allows people to use deadly force anywhere they feel a reasonable threat of serious injury or death.
But for McCain, the move is another gamble for a candidate in need of a game-changer and one that lends credence to the self-proclaimed maverick's repeated claim that he's unafraid of bucking his own party.
Under the changes, a self-employed worker who contributes to the social security system in one EU country, and then moves to another member state that does not have unemployment insurance for the self-employed will be able to claim unemployment benefit from the country where the worker was last based before becoming unemployed.
Lord Glasman - self-styled creator of the "Blue Labour" philosophy - made the claim at a fringe meeting at the Labour conference in Liverpool.
There is an element of self-pity there, of course: many blue-collar workers have a better claim to disposable-android status.
Karin called the DOL again and says this time she was told that the state considered her self-employed, which would require her to claim earnings each time she received an AdSense check.
We'll forgive the extremely nice folk behind the PDJ when they claim to have the first fully self-contained portable DJ set-up.
The local police did not arrest Mr Zimmerman, saying they had no evidence to dispute his claim that he had acted in self-defence.
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"That was Travis' stunt to make me look self-serving, " Armstrong said, reiterating his claim that it was unfair that riders who testified against him received reduced sanctions while he was given a life ban.
That labor-intensive effort will lower Diamond's profit margin and could undercut a favorite firm claim: that its advice is free of self-interest because it doesn't entail hiring a platoon of Diamond techies.
Here is an example: one of the orgs cited in this article is run by a bevy of former major health insurer employees and largely governed by major insurers who claim to be advocating transparency on behalf of self-insured employers.
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But while Mr Buchanan explains all this well, he also makes a sweeping claim: that human society too is an example of self-organised criticality, and that it is therefore possible to use science to explain the patterns of history.
And while executives may claim these line improvement strategies are primarily to entertain guests, they offer several self-serving benefits.
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Mr Finkelstein's central claim is that American Jews' feelings about Israel were always guided more by self-interest and personal values than by Jewish solidarity.
She insists that Jesus of Nazareth made no claim to be divine: a famous New Testament passage that expounds both his self-abasement and divine glory does not mean what Christians think it means, she adds.
In August, Chile's Supreme Court had rejected General Pinochet's claim that he was immune from prosecution, both as a senator-for-life (a self-bestowed title) and under a 1980 amnesty law.
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