States Are Quietly Resurrecting a Law That Makes It Easier to Kill Blacks

On July 12, 2013, the Honorable Judge Debra S. Nelson addressed the jury in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman in Florida and read her instructions to the jury (pdf). They included the following:

States Are Quietly Resurrecting a Law That Makes It Easier to Kill Blacks

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