Judge in George Zimmerman Trial Will Allow Previous Phone Calls to Police as Evidence
Prosecutors trying to depict Zimmerman as unhinged
A Florida judge ruled Wednesday that audio recordings of non-emergency calls George Zimmerman made to police in the months before he shot Florida teen Trayvon Martin could be admitted as evidence in the neighborhood watch volunteer's second-degree murder trial.
Zimmerman, 29, called the police close to 50 times over an eight-year period to report such things as slow vehicles, loitering strangers in the neighborhood and open garages.
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And never shot anyone before that. Exonerating, hooo