Politics Covid U. News World Opinion Business. Share this —. Follow NBC News. Charges were dropped. He was arrested again in when he was accused of throwing a wine bottle at his girlfriend. Charges again were dropped. Facebook Twitter Email. Karl Etters Tallahassee Democrat. Show Caption. The neighbourhood watch volunteer was cleared of the year-old's murder in one of Florida's most-high profile criminal cases. US law allowed him to say he shot Trayvon in self-defence, but the teenager's family and friends always insisted it was murder.
The lawsuit claims the Martin family and lawyers used a fake witness against George Zimmerman. The lawsuit accuses Trayvon's parents and the family's lawyer Benjamin Crump of forcing Brittany Diamond Eugene, 16, who was reportedly the teen's girlfriend, to make a recorded statement that implicated George Zimmerman as the person who started the row with Trayvon. Brittany was on the phone with the year-old moments before it happened, the suit said.
It also alleges that Brittany's half-sister, Rachel Jeantel, pretended to be Brittany when she was interviewed by prosecutors and provided false statements to incriminate George Zimmerman based on coaching from others in court during his trial. Benjamin Crump said in a statement, on behalf of himself and the Martin family, that he has confidence that the "unfounded and reckless" lawsuit will be revealed as "another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others.
Trayvon's uncle, Ronald Fulton, 56, claimed the lawsuit was no more than a publicity stunt to promote a forthcoming documentary titled the "Trayvon Hoax" that claims Rachel Jeantel was an impostor. Man who was cleared of murdering unarmed black teenager launches lawsuit against family, their lawyer and prosecutors. Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, 17, following a nighttime altercation between the two at his gated community in Sanford in February
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