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  • Juror B29 speaks exclusively with ABC News
  • Juror B29, who recently moved to Florida from Chicago, said she feels George Zimmerman got away with murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.
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  • As they began deliberating in George Zimmerman's murder trial, three of the six jurors wanted to acquit him while the other three wanted to convict him of either murder or manslaughter, one of the jurors said.
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  • Four of the six jurors from the murder trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman have distanced themselves from statements another juror made in a televised interview.
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  • After a year and a half of living as a hermit, George Zimmerman emerged from a Florida courthouse a free man, cleared of all charges in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
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  • Juror B37 on the George Zimmerman trial said the six-woman jury was initially split before voting to acquit him in the death of Trayvon Martin.
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  • Will George Zimmerman face civil rights charges following Saturday's not guilty verdict in the Trayvon Martin murder case?
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  • The Chicago woman who was on the George Zimmerman jury had just moved to Florida a few months ago and found herself on the highest-profile criminal case in years.
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  • George Zimmerman appears in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Monday, June 24, 2013.
  • Trayvon Martin's DNA was not found on the grip of George Zimmerman's gun, and Zimmerman's DNA was not found under the unarmed teen's fingernails, a law enforcement expert said Wednesday.
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  • A Florida judge has ruled that jurors at George Zimmerman's trial may be told that Trayvon Martin had small amounts of marijuana in his body when he died.
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  • The mother of Trayvon Martin has testified that screams for help captured on audio of a 911 call came from her 17-year-old son.
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  • An expert on gunshot wounds hired by the defense testified Tuesday that George Zimmerman's account of how he fatally shot Trayvon Martin is consistent with the forensic evidence.
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  • George Zimmerman sits in the courtroom during his trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013
  • Defense attorneys have rested their case in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial after calling 18 witnesses over less than a week.
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  • A judge said Thursday that jurors in the George Zimmerman case can consider the lesser charge of manslaughter, but she denied a request for the jury also to consider third-degree murder after a defense attorney called the proposal "outrageous."
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  • A prosecutor in George Zimmerman's murder trial has ended his rebuttal, saying the neighborhood watch volunteer told a series of lies in his statements about shooting Trayvon Martin.
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  • The jury in George Zimmerman's murder trial began a second day of deliberations Saturday morning, weighing whether the neighborhood watch volunteer committed a crime almost a year and a half ago when he fatally shot Trayvon Martin.
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  • It's a case that's drawn national attention - Trayvon Martin was killed by a neighborhood watch captain who says it was self-defense.
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  • George Zimmerman blinked and barely smiled as a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.
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  • After a year and a half of living as a hermit, George Zimmerman emerged from a Florida courthouse a free man, cleared of all charges in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
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  • From New York to California, outrage over the acquittal in George Zimmerman's murder trial poured from street demonstrations and church pulpits Sunday as protesters called for justice for the unarmed youth he killed and demanded federal civil rights charges against him.
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  • FILE - In this March 21, 2012 file photo, demonstrators pray during the Million Hoodie March in Union Square, N.Y.
  • Thousands of demonstrators from across the country - chanting, praying and even fighting tears - protested a jury's decision to clear neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager while the Justice Department considered whether to file criminal civil rights charges.
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  • Police escorted a large group peacefully marching through San Franciscos Mission District to protest the George Zimmerman verdict.
  • Groups in San Francisco and Oakland protest after a jury finds George Zimmerman not guilty.
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