With Racial Roles Reversed, Three Self-Defense Cases That Went The Other Way

With Racial Roles Reversed, Three Self-Defense Cases That Went The Other Way: George Zimmerman was acquitted in the murder of Trayvon Martin over the weekend, successfully using a claim of self-defense to convince six jurors that he was right to shoot and kill the 17-year-old Martin. The case centered around the question of whether Martin was physically aggressive toward Zimmerman in any way — the defense claimed [...]/p