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1A list of George Zimmerman's past run-ins with the law. 
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3http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/18/list-george-zimmerman-past-run-ins-with-law/
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5— July 2005, Zimmerman was arrested and accused of resisting an officer with violence near the University of Central Florida campus after a scuffle with police. The charges were eventually dropped after Zimmerman entered an alcohol education program.
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7— August 2005, Zimmerman's former fiancee filed for a restraining order against him, alleging domestic violence. Zimmerman responded by requesting a restraining order against her. Both requests were granted. No criminal charges were filed.
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9— February 2012, Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin during a confrontation in the community where Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch volunteer. Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder but acquitted after a trial in July 2013.
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11— July 2013, police in Foley, Texas, stop Zimmerman for speeding in a 60 mph zone. Zimmerman is let go with just a warning.
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13— September 2013, Zimmerman is stopped by police in Lake Mary, Fla., and given a ticket for doing 60 mph in a 45 mph zone.
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15— September 2013, Zimmerman's estranged wife, Shellie, dials 911 and tells a police dispatcher that her punched her father and threatened her with a gun. She later decides against pressing charges and authorities announce in November they are dropping the case.
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17— September 2013, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper stops Zimmerman along Interstate 95 and issues a warning because the vehicle's tag cover and windows were too darkly tinted.
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19— November 2013, Zimmerman is arrested by Seminole County authorities after a disturbance at a home in Apopka.
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21http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/18/list-george-zimmerman-past-run-ins-with-law/
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23July 2013: traffic stop in Texas
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25What allegedly happened: Police pulled Zimmerman over for speeding in Forney, Texas, outside of Dallas. Dashcam video of the stop shows the officer warning Zimmerman, “Don’t play with your firearm, okay?”
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27The result: Zimmerman got off with a verbal warning. Nobody ever really explained what he was doing in Texas.
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29It’s also worth mentioning that Zimmerman was accused of assault and abuse twice prior to Martin’s death.
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31August 19, 2013: traffic stop
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33What allegedly happened: A Florida Highway Patrol officer in Brevard County pulled Zimmerman over for having too-dark window tints and an obscured license plate.
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35The result: Nothing much. He told the officer he had tinted his windows because he was receiving death threats. The stop was filed as a “courtesy warning,” and Zimmerman didn’t have to pay any fines or change his tints.
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37September 4, 2013: speeding ticket
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39What allegedly happened: Police in Lake Mary clocked Zimmerman going 60 in a 45-mph zone.
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41The result: Not much. This time around, he didn’t have a weapon in his car.
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43September 9, 2013: domestic disturbance with his estranged wife and father-in-law
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45What allegedly happened: George’s estranged then-wife, Shellie Zimmerman, called police saying George had punched her father, smashed her belongings, and threatened her and her father with a gun.
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48The result: Authorities claimed Shellie’s iPad, which she was allegedly using to record video of the incident, was damaged irreparably during the fight, killing most of the concrete evidence. Shellie also decided not to pursue the case further, claiming she wanted to just be done with the divorce and end her marriage “with a whimper and not a bang.”
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50November 18, 2013: domestic disturbance with a girlfriend
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52What allegedly happened: Zimmerman’s then-girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe, called police in Apopka, Florida, saying he had entered her home, breaking her things, and pointing a shotgun at her during an argument.
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54The result: Scheibe decided she wanted the case dropped.
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56September 10, 2014: a road rage fight
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58What allegedly happened: After an ostensible slight in traffic, Zimmerman allegedly pulled up next to a fellow driver and threatened him, then followed him to a Circle K parking lot. He allegedly asked the other driver, “Do you know who I am?” Two days later, that other driver called police when he noticed Zimmerman in his truck outside his workplace.
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60The result: The other driver involved, who wished to remain anonymous, decided not to press charges, and Zimmerman again escaped arrest.
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62Friday, Jan. 9, 2015: domestic disturbance with a girlfriend
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64What allegedly happened: Early last week, according to the Orlando Sentinel, Zimmerman got in a fight with his current girlfriend and allegedly threw a wine bottle at her. This happened in Lake Mary, Florida, just a few minutes from Sanford, where Trayvon was shot. For the most part, Zimmerman has remained in a small geographical radius in Central Florida .
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66The result: The story is still developing. But so far, even though the incident didn’t involve a gun, Volusia County judge John Galluzzo has ordered Zimmerman to turn over his firearms. The next court date for this charge is on Feb. 17.
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68http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/zimmermans-appalling-and-irrelevant-alleged-sexual-assault/2012/07/17/gJQAceoGrW_blog.html
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70http://thegrio.com/2012/07/16/zimmerman-relative-witness-9-accusations/
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72http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12218/alecexposed-george-zimmermans-criminal-history-includes-alleged-violence-and-temp
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74http://www.salon.com/2015/01/12/george_zimmerman_arrested_for_domestic_violence_again/
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76http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/18/new-trayvon-martin-evidence-10-things-you-should-know/
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80Trayvon Martin was suspended 3 times from school. Once he wrote “WTF” on a school door with a marker. Martin was also found with 12 pieces of women’s jewelry and a flathead screwdriver. He was suspended during the time to his death because he was caught with an empty bag, suspected of containing marijuana. 
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82• George Zimmerman may have been profiling black males.
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84In the months before the Feb. 26 shooting, George Zimmerman called the police several times to report suspicious persons. In all of these calls, he identified the subject as a black male. The calls were made on August 3, 4, and 6, 2011; October 6, 2011; and Feb 12, 2012.
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86• Trayvon Martin may have been running from Zimmerman at first.
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88The Seminole County Sheriff’s Department’s Computer Aided Dispatch shows that Zimmerman called police to report a suspicious person, then told them the subject was running from him. The exchange between the dispatcher and Zimmerman shows that he was advised not to continue to follow Martin. One witness interviewed said she saw one of the subjects chasing the other, but could not see who was who. A recording of a female identified as Martin’s longtime friend who was on the phone with him just before the shooting said he began to run when he realized Zimmerman was following him.
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90• The lead investigator felt that there was enough evidence, based on what he saw, to charge Zimmerman.
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92Although much of his statement is redacted, Sanford PD investigator Chris Serino questioned witnesses over the course of weeks, listened to audio of 911 calls and analyzed information from the general practitioner Zimmerman went to the day after the shooting. He felt that based on his investigation, whose details he forwarded to Brevard/Seminole Country State Attorney Norm Wolfinger, there was enough to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter. According to the police capias request, or request for charges to be filed, another official felt that Zimmerman could have avoided any trouble if he had either stayed in his vehicle or at least identified himself to Martin.
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94“The encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman, if Zimmerman had remained in his vehicle and awaited the arrival of law enforcement or conversely if he had identified himself to Martin as a concerned citizen and initiated dialogue to dispel each party’s concern,” the report said. “There is no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any criminal activity at the time of the encounter.”
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96Chris Ray Gun
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98I vehemently disagree with your stance on Zimmerman. The guy had a myriad of violent altercations before he murdered Trayvon Martin. He is a certifiable lunatic and he always had been, at the very least WAY before the media storm. This is not the result of a (justified) media condemnation. This is a violent man getting what's been coming to him.
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100Mundanematt
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102A myriad? I'm going to have to see sources on that one Chris. He was an overzealous neighborhood patrolman, but outside of the arrest for pushing a cop, I don't remember many "violent altercations" leading up to the shooting in 2012
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106He was arrested in 2005 and had to take anger management classes after the altercation. He also had a restraining order set against him in the same year. He also had quite the online history well before the Trayvon Martin incident. My issue here lies with the overwhelming sympathy going his way. The guy was clearly guilty when the trial was going on (if not made obvious by the countless attempts at physical violence we already know him to be capable of committing AFTER the fact), he's had multiple altercations since then, he's gone on record saying, "Do you know who I am, I will kill you." Forgive me if my sympathy doesn't lie with him. You cannot say "The media did this to him," because that takes the responsibility off of him. It ultimately absolves him. The only person responsible for what Zimmerman does is Zimmerman. 
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110He pushed a cop in 2005. That was why he had to take an anger management class. Harly indicative of a cold-blooded killer. The restraining order was by his ex wife, and he filed one against her at the same time as well. 
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112His altercations have been very odd because no one has actually pressed charges against him. His ex wife and her father dropped their claim, and his ex girlfriend did the same thing. Kinda odd isn't it? 
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114Other than that, its all hearsay, and I don't know if I'd trust the word of the guy who took a pot shot at Zimmerman's head this morning. That guy doesn't seem all that stable to me in the first place.
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116You are right, Zimmerman is responsible for Zimmerman...and his responsibility should be to get help for himself.
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118http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/trayvon-martin/article1953286.html
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120Zimmerman waived his right to the Stand Your Ground immunity hearing, a pre-trial event that’s not spelled out in statute. But he was afforded the protections of Stand Your Ground, which is embedded in Florida’s self-defense laws. Its language, found in statute 776.013, was tailored to the Zimmerman trial’s jury instructions and said the following:
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122“If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in any place where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
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124Despite the language on the jury-instruction form and B37’s comments about Stand Your Ground, some commentators have said it had nothing to do with the case because it was a standard self-defense case.
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126But Stand Your Ground is standard self defense in Florida.
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128The juror, a gun-rights supporter whose interview indicated she admired Zimmerman, said she was ready to acquit the defendant at the beginning of deliberations when the six-member jury held a vote.
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130“We had three not guilties, one second-degree murder and two manslaughters,” said the juror. “There was a couple of ’em in there that wanted to find him guilty of something.”
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132The law wasn’t a model of clarity.
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134One of the jurors wondered about how self-defense law applied in Zimmerman’s situation when he got out of his car and followed Trayvon. The jurors asked the court a question about it, but B37 didn’t recall the specifics.
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136Zimmerman said he thought the 17-year-old looked suspicious in the burglary-prone neighborhood. B37 said none of the jurors thought Zimmerman was motivated by racial animus.
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138“George Zimmerman is a man whose heart was in the right place, but just got displaced by the vandalism in the neighborhood,” she said. “He went above and beyond what he should have done. But I think his heart was in the right place. It just went terribly wrong.”
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140Was he guilty of something? Cooper asked.
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142“He’s guilty of not using good judgment,” she continued. “When he was in the car, he had called 911, he shouldn’t have gotten out of that car.”
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144On Tuesday, she partly faulted Trayvon for his own death because he stood his ground and didn’t retreat: “Oh, I believe he played a huge role in his death. He could have... when George confronted him, he could have walked away and gone home. He didn’t have to do whatever he did and come back and be in a fight.”
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146The prosecution argued that Zimmerman hunted Trayvon down because the neighborhood watch volunteer was armed with a Kel-Tec 9mm handgun, his “equalizer.” Trayvon was unarmed.
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148The jury ultimately didn’t buy prosecutors’ argument or feel they provided adequate proof.
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150Jurors also didn’t have all the court instructions for self-defense cases. The judge withheld instructions that the jurors could have used to determine that Zimmerman was an “initial aggressor,” a finding that could have denied him a self-defense defense. But the defense successfully argued — and the state did not forcefully protest — that prosecutors failed to show how Zimmerman was an aggressor.
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152“Losing the initial aggressor instruction may have been the moment the state lost its case,” criminal-law professor Alafair Burke wrote in the Huffington Post.
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154http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/stand-your-ground-george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin
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156An armed Zimmerman knew about Stand Your Ground years ago: Aswitnesses testified during the trial, Zimmerman had for years pursued an interest in a law enforcement career. At a Florida college in 2010, he earned an A in a criminal-justice class taught by an Army prosecutor whose course work included the state's Stand Your Ground law. That same year, Zimmerman applied to participate in a police ride-along, writing that his motivation was "solidifying my chances for a career in law enforcement." (However, Zimmerman's ability to retain certain law enforcement knowledge apparently vanished after he killed Martin; the self-styled neighborhood watchman, who obsessively called 911 to report suspicious activity, told Fox News' Sean Hannity last summer that he'd never heard of Stand Your Ground.)
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158How Florida authorities let Zimmerman walk: For nearly six weeks after the killing, Zimmerman remained a free man; he was arrested and charged only after a national outcry and after the case was handed over to a special prosecutor. A subsequent New York Times investigation revealed that the Sanford PD's handling of the case was marred by serious lapses—in tandem with letting Zimmerman go the night of the killing based on his claim of self-defense, police investigators failed to secure key evidence. Bill Lee Jr., then Sanford's police chief, told the Times: "We were basing our decisions, which were made in concert with the state attorney's office, on the findings of the investigation at the time, and we were abiding by the Florida law that covers self-defense."
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160Lee, who was forced to resign in the wake of the killing, went on to tell CNN this month that Stand Your Ground had no bearing on the investigation. But there arereams of evidence that the law has hamstrung Florida authorities for years and kept them from effectively pursuing homicide prosecutions.
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162The jury instructions—and a reason for their verdict: Just because Zimmerman's defense team didn't bring up Stand Your Ground in the trial (more on that below), that doesn't mean the law was irrelevant to the jury's decision. To the contrary, Judge Debra Nelson made clear in the jury instructions (PDF) that they should consider the law:
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164If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in any place where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
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166And consider it they did. According to the most outspoken juror, known only as Juror B-37, Stand Your Ground was key to reaching their verdict. She told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an interview that neither second-degree murder nor manslaughter applied in Zimmerman's case "because of the heat of the moment and the 'stand your ground.' He had a right to defend himself. If he felt threatened that his life was going to be taken away from him or he was going to have bodily harm, he had a right.”
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168— "I was on my way to the grocery store when I saw a male approximately 5' 11" to 6' 2" casually looking into homes."
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170— Zimmerman left his vehicle, he says, to look for a street sign so that he could give police his location. In a phone conversation with a police dispatcher, he was told "not to follow the suspect and that an officer was in route."
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172— "As I headed back to my vehicle, the suspect emerged from the darkness and said 'you got a problem' [?] I said 'No.' The suspect said 'you do now.' "
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174— As he was trying to phone 911 again, "the suspect punched me in the face."
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176— He was knocked to the ground, Zimmerman says, and a struggle began. At one point, he writes that the suspect said "you gonna die tonight [expletive]."
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178— Trayvon tried to get to Zimmerman's gun, Zimmerman writes. "In fear for my life," Zimmerman says, he "fired one shot."
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180— He adds that Trayvon said, "you got me.”
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182http://politicalblindspot.com/what-about-the-drugs-zimmerman-was-on-when-he-shot-trayvon/
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184Aggression, anxiety, delusions, depression, hallucination, hostility… These are some of the most notorious effects of the drugs that George Zimmerman was on the night that he shot and killed Trayvon Martin. “Worsening mental or mood problems,” is also how the effects of the often abused prescription drug Adderall are described. Why then did this not play a major role in the prosecution of George Zimmerman, who was known to be on both Adderall and
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186The media made a big deal out of Trayvon Martin having marijuana in his system, but they continue to discount what George Zimmerman had in his body.
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188When Zimmerman’s medical records were released, it was revealed that he was also on the prescription drug Temazepam the powerful antidepressant classified as a Hypnotic, Benzodiazepine category of drug.
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190Temazepam, also known as Restoril, is known to cause insomnia and anxiety. There are even more important – and overlooked – side effects of the drug. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the drug is also known to cause “aggressiveness” and “hallucinations,” among other problematic symptoms. The U.S. NLM reported the following:
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192After taking Temazepam, patients should not be walking around trying to watch anything or anyone. They are cautioned that if they do not sleep for at least 7-8 hours after taking the drug, they may experience memory loss.
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196According Newsone who spoke with Steven J. Topazio, Attorney-at-Law, voluntary drug use does not excuse criminal acts:
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198“Defendants who commit crimes under the influence of drugs sometimes argue that their mental functioning was so impaired that they should not be held accountable for their conduct.
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202Generally, voluntary impairment does not excuse criminal conduct, since people know or should know that drugs affect mental functioning, and they should therefore be held legally responsible if they commit crimes as a result of their voluntary use.
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204An exception to this rule may exist in cases involving a crime that requires “specific intent,” in which the offender must have intended the precise result that occurred but arguably could not have formed that intent in his or her drugged state.
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206The prescription drugs that Zimmerman were taking had an extremely dangerous affects than the tiny little bit of marijuana that was found in Trayvon Martin’s system. By contrast, that marijuana has side effects that including not wanting to fight, sitting at home watching television, or maybe getting the munchies for some candy – like Skittles – and then going back home to watch some more television. That is, of course, assuming that one is not shot on the way home for being the wrong color and wearing a hoodie in the rain. These things are known to be potentially suspicious to armed individuals experiencingaggression, hostility and possible hallucinations due to the powerful Hypnotic class of drugs they were taking.
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208http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-medical-report-sheds-light-injuries-trayvon/story?id=16353532
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210Temazepam side effects
211Temazepam may cause a severe allergic reaction. Stop taking temazepam and get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat. Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat. Stop using temazepam and call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects:
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213weak or shallow breathing;
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218restless muscle movements in your eyes, tongue, jaw, or neck;
219pale skin, easy bruising or bleeding, unusual weakness;
220fever, chills, body aches, flu symptoms;
221problems with urination; or
222nausea, stomach pain, low fever, loss of appetite, dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes).
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225daytime drowsiness (or during hours when you are not normally sleeping);
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227amnesia or forgetfulness;
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229muscle weakness, lack of balance or coordination;
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231numbness, burning, pain, or tingly feeling;
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233headache, blurred vision, depressed mood;
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235feeling nervous, excited, or irritable;
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237nausea, vomiting, stomach discomfort; or
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239dry mouth, increased thirst.
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241http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/20/nation/la-na-nn-trayvon-martin-cell-phone-conversation-20120320
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243Florida teen Trayvon Martin was apparently chatting on a cellphone with his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was confronted -- and then killed -- by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain. That call, says the attorney for the slain 17-year-old's family, is proof that the man did not fire in self-defense but was actually the aggressor.
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245Martin's Feb. 26 shooting death has been propelled onto the national stage, fueled in part by social media outrage over the unfolding facts in the case. The latest details to emerge are likely to fuel that outrage.
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247An attorney for the slain teen's family held a news conference Tuesday to present cellphone records that he says prove Martin was on the phone with his girlfriend at the time he was confronted in a gated community in Sanford, Fla., by George Zimmerman, 28.
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249The girl, whose family did not want her to be named, told ABC News that she was talking to Martin when he said he believed he was being followed. "He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on," the girl said. She then heard Trayvon say to the man, "What are you following me for?" The man then reportedly said, "What are you doing around here?"
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251The girl said she believes somebody then pushed Martin because she heard his earpiece fall, and then the line went dead.
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253The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have launched a probe of the shooting, and Seminole County state attorney Norm Wolfinger announced Tuesday that he would bring the case before a grand jury next month. If Martin's girlfriend testifies about what she heard that day, it could potentially undermine Zimmerman's claim to police that he opened fire on Martin because he feared for his own safety.
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255The case has taken on racial overtones because Zimmerman had contacted police to alert them to Martin's presence in the neighborhood, reporting him as a young black male who was acting suspiciously.
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257Benjamin Crump, the attorney representing the Martin family, urged immediate action. He said at the news conference that he wants Zimmerman arrested -- now -- for "killing Trayvon Martin in cold blood."
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259"The dots have all been connected," Crump told the media. "We don't understand how he's not arrested. The family worries that the more time passes it will be swept under the rug.”
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261https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia0w_dOj7R4