Manuel Roig-Franzia
The Washington Post
July 13, 2013
A Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of charges of second-degree murder
and manslaughter Saturday night in a case that alternately fascinated and
appalled large segments of a spellbound nation.
Zimmerman bowed his head in the moments before the verdict was read. As the
judge confirmed the verdict with jurors, one of the six women in the jury sat
with a face flushed with emotion.
After the jury filed out of the courtroom, the defendant’s brother, Robert
Zimmerman, sitting in the second row, hugged his mother, Gladys Zimmerman. The
row became a swirl of tears and hugs. A man sitting next to Zimmerman’s brother
slapped his hands together in joy and sobbed.
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