Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re likely familiar with the infamous George Zimmerman trial. To refresh your memory, Zimmerman was accused of second degree murder and manslaughter of young Trayvon Martin in February of 2012. Accusations of racism were at the forefront of this spectacle. Zimmerman being a caucasian-looking latino and Martin being an African American youth wearing a hoodie. Zimmerman claimed he shot the unarmed Martin out of self-defense, a claim that much of the country found difficult to believe. Still, eye-witness accounts supported his claim of self-defense and Zimmerman was found not guilt by a jury on July 13, 2013.
Prior to trial, a judge ordered that Zimmerman be tracked with a combination of GPS technology, as well as physically monitored by several officers from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. He was tracked from July 6, 2012 until he was found not guilty. Recently, journalist Matthew Keys got ahold of Zimmerman’s tracking records and uploaded them to Scribd for public consumption. With such a high profile case, public curiosity is only natural. Unfortunately for the public, Zimmerman’s activities were quite unremarkable.
While being monitored with the GPS device, George Zimmerman was mostly cooperative. Four days after the tracking program started, he was issued a Cuff Leave violation. He called police to let them know he had accidentally left his tracking device in his vehicle while he went into Target to buy flowers for his wife. He had already put the device back on by the time he called the officers to report the mistake. Records show Zimmerman was without the GPS device for 10 minutes and 13 seconds, given a warning about future mistakes and issued a violation. On July 16th, he was given a new tracking device that vibrates “when cuff leave is imminent.”
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