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April 9, - Corey announces that she will not present the case to a grand jury. April 10, - Attorneys Uhrig and Sonner announce that they have lost contact with Zimmerman and no longer represent him. April 11, - Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder. April 18, - Seminole Circuit Court Judge Jessica Recksiedler, who is assigned to Zimmerman's case, approves a motion to disqualify herself from the criminal case because her husband works as a CNN legal analyst.

April 20, - Zimmerman's bond hearing is held. During the hearing, Zimmerman apologizes to the family of Martin for the loss of their son. April 23, - Zimmerman is released on bail at a. Later in the day, Zimmerman enters a written not guilty plea and waives his right to appear at his arraignment. May 8, - Judge Lester accepts Zimmerman's written plea of not guilty. May 15, - A medical report by Zimmerman's family doctor, taken a day after the shooting, shows Zimmerman was diagnosed with a fractured nose, two black eyes and two lacerations on the back of his head.

June 1, - Judge Lester revokes Zimmerman's bond and orders him to surrender within 48 hours after the prosecution argues that Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie Zimmerman, misrepresented their finances when Zimmerman's bond was originally set in April. June 3, - Zimmerman surrenders to authorities and is taken into custody. June 12, - Zimmerman's wife is arrested and charged with perjury. June 20, - Sanford Police Chief Lee is officially fired. June 25, - Zimmerman's attorney files a motion requesting a "reasonable bond" be set for Zimmerman's release from jail.

July 13, - Zimmerman's legal team files a motion requesting Judge Lester step down from the case. The motion claims Zimmerman cannot get a fair trial because Lester used "gratuitous, disparaging" language in the previous week's bail order. July 18, - Zimmerman, appearing on Fox News' "Hannity" show, does his first television interview since the shooting.

He says he would not do anything differently. August 9, - A photo of Martin's body and Zimmerman's school records are mistakenly released by prosecutors. Special Prosecutor Corey's office issues a statement asking reporters to "please disregard and do not use the information contained in the initial e-mail. It was inadvertently attached.

August 13, - Zimmerman appeals Judge Lester's refusal to recuse himself. August 29, - A Florida appeals court grants Zimmerman's request for a new judge, saying Judge Lester's remarks in a bail order put Zimmerman in reasonable fear of a fair trial.

December 7, - Zimmerman sues NBC Universal for allegedly editing the call he placed on the night of the tragic event. He states in the lawsuit that NBC unfairly made it appear that "Zimmerman was a racist, and that he was racially profiling Trayvon Martin.

It takes place four days after what would have been Martin's 18th birthday. April 5, - Martin's parents settle a wrongful-death claim against the homeowners' association of the Florida subdivision where their son was killed. April 30, - Zimmerman waives his right to a "stand your ground" pretrial immunity hearing. Zimmerman's attorneys decide they will instead try this as a self-defense case.

If there had been a pretrial immunity hearing, a judge would have ruled whether Zimmerman's actions were protected under the "stand your ground" law. If the judge had ruled in favor of Zimmerman, it would have meant that no criminal or civil trial could proceed. May 28, - Judge Nelson rules on several motions brought by the defense. Nelson rules that Martin's familiarity with guns, his marijuana use, and fights he may have been in cannot be brought up in Zimmerman's trial.

She also denies a request to take the jury to the crime scene. Nelson rules that jurors will remain anonymous and will be referred to by numbers only. June 20, - An all-female jury is selected. June 24, - The trial begins with opening statements.

July 13, - The six-woman jury finds Zimmerman not guilty. They had three choices: find Zimmerman guilty of second-degree murder; find him guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter; or find him not guilty. The jurors deliberated for more than 16 hours total.

Five things that led to Zimmerman's acquittal. August 28, - Shellie Zimmerman pleads guilty to a misdemeanor charge of perjury. Prosecutors say she lied during an April bond hearing for her husband when she told a judge that the family was indigent. February 24, - The US Justice Department announces that no federal civil rights charges will be brought against Zimmerman.

The chief allegation in the lawsuit is that the attorney helped to swap out a reluctant witness, Brittany Diamond Eugene, for her half-sister, Rachel Jeantel, and helped prepare her to deliver false testimony. The suit accuses Trayvon's parents, prosecutors and state authorities of going along with the alleged ruse.

Photos: Photos: Zimmerman trial. Key moments in the Zimmerman trial — George Zimmerman is congratulated by members of his defense team, Don West and Lorna Truett, after the not guilty verdict is read on Saturday, July 13, in Sanford, Florida. A jury of six women found him not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

View photos of the public reaction to the verdict. How do you know? Although the speech is relatively short, only 15 minutes, I chunked out the viewing because I wanted students to pause to write and talk after significant points instead of waiting until the end. Also, because I was teaching this in September, I wanted to model how to take notes and discuss texts. I stopped the video about four minutes in, just after Obama relates his own history with racial profiling.

What do agree with? What do you argue with? After students wrote, they talked. They, too, had experiences being followed or viewed as suspicious. I remember one time I was in the mall with eight of my friends, and the mall security told us we have to separate into groups of three because they thought we were a gang.

Although the speech is short, this activity took most of the minute period. When we returned the following class, I distributed a two-column handout. I asked them to use the right-hand column to write an analysis of each quote: what it meant, why they chose it, why it was important, why they agreed or disagreed with it, what issues it addressed, what issues it missed.

I wanted them to practice that skill. Since they had watched the video and read along, they could go deeper in a second reading. After I noted that most students had one quote but some students were struggling with the analysis, I asked a couple of students to bring their papers to the document camera and to share their quote and analysis. We looked at why their analysis worked and what could be added. In this analysis, Trina demonstrates an understanding of why Obama includes this section in his speech and also who his speech was aimed at.

Could she have said more? But as we discussed her analysis, the students began to understand how to move beyond summarization and into locating audience, context, and the purpose of the speech. We stopped writing and analyzing 10 minutes before the end of the period. At that time, I asked a few more students to come up to the document camera to share one of their quotes and the related comments.

They fell in love with him and insisted that we watch the entire interview, not just the clips I had selected. This interview is not easy. West speaks rapidly and makes many historical and contemporary allusions without providing context. Amy developed a cheat sheet so that students could have some background about the people West discusses as they followed along with his talk.

How did he critique? What did he say about the segments that we had discussed on previous days? We followed the same protocol of stopping after each segment to discuss it. George Zimmerman is a criminal, but President Obama is a global George Zimmerman because he tries to rationalize the killing of innocent children, so far, in the name of self-defense, so that there are actually parallels here.

If you are concerned about black boys being part of our society. Those are the kind of things hardly ever talked about. But we can only talk about transpartnerships in terms of global training for capital and multinational corporations and big banks. I agree with West because as much as Obama talked about what African American boys go through, what is he doing for them?

When I reviewed student essays from last year, I noticed that I had not done a good enough job of teaching evidence paragraphs. After the discussions, students wrote letters to their district superintendent offering solutions to the problems the film raised.

Because of the immediacy of the issue, most of the letters were articulate and passionate, and the students took the assigment more seriously than their typical English-class writing assignments. This year, unfortunately, Scott has not had the opportunity to depart from the standard curriculum to discuss the Trayvon Martin case.

During his K teaching career, Jeffrey P. Carpenter found that his occasional departures from the curriculum to address contemporary issues resulted in powerful learning experiences. For example, on Sept. It was not easy teaching. Some students had relatives living in Washington, where the Pentagon had been targeted, and others were worried about the prospect that our country would be going to war.

All of that still would have been the case even if class time had not been spent discussing the events of the previous day. Students were upset by the tragedy unfolding around them, but they also wanted to talk and learn about it. Teachers, your students will thank you if you can put aside a lesson plan or two and talk about the Trayvon Martin case or other controversial news events with them.

Let us avoid further tragedy by engaging our students in discussion about the world in which they are growing up. Perhaps these discussions can motivate some of our youths to contribute to building a better vision of our society, one in which a young life is not so sadly wasted.

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