George Zimmerman Jury Hears Key 911 Tapes in Start of Trial

Defense lawyer Don West in a considerably less fiery opening used a map of the Twin Lakes Retreat Subdivision where Martin was killed. He told jurors about recent crime in the community, and how Zimmerman and others in the neighborhood were instructed to report suspected crime.

“Residents would ask him to phone in something and to report something,” said West. “There was an attempted break-in just a couple weeks before.”

West played the infamous non-emergency made by Zimmerman to police as he reported a “suspicious” teenager. The jury listened intently as the call was heard in the courtroom.

The lawyer tried to explain away Zimmerman’s comments about “these a**holes always get away” as words made not by a man consumed with ill intent, but as someone who had been the point person in a community dealing with rising crime.

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