JACKSONVILLE, FL — Circuit Judge Russell Healey announced today that the jury in the murder trial for Michael David Dunn has reached a verdict on four of the five counts against him. After nearly 30 hours of jury deliberations jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict on Count 1, first-degree murder, or any of […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 47-year-old Florida man reacted viciously to an argument over loud music with teenagers in a store parking lot and fired multiple shots into their vehicle, killing one of them, and then drove away as if nothing happened, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments at the man’s trial. Defense attorneys […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys will make closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of a Florida man charged with fatally shooting teenager Jordan Davis after an argument over loud music. Both sides were to sum up their cases in the first-degree murder trial of 47-year-old Michael Dunn. Jurors could begin deliberating Wednesday […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Nine bullet holes were found in an SUV after an argument over loud music at a Florida convenience store that left a teen dead, an investigator testified Saturday at the trial of the man charged with opening fire. Also Saturday, the defendant’s fiancee, who was with him the night of the […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Witnesses have recounted how a Florida man fired at an SUV outside a Jacksonville convenience store, killing a teen, following an argument over loud music. More witnesses and police officers will take the stand Friday in 47-year-old Michael Dunn‘s first-degree murder trial for fatally shooting 17-year-old Jordan Davis in 2012. An […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors are presenting their opening statements in the trial of a Florida man charged with fatally shooting a 17-year-old teen during an argument over loud music at a Jacksonville gas station. Michael Dunn‘s trial is getting under way Thursday, a day after a panel of 12 jurors and four alternates was […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A white software developer is about to go on trial in Florida in the death of a black teenager — in a case that raises comparisons to the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of 47-year-old Michael Dunn. Police say Dunn fatally shot […]
Roland Martin talks with the TJMS about Sybrina Fulton, the mother of the late Trayvon Martin, and Lucia Holman McBath, the mother of the late Jordan Davis, and their fight to have stand your ground laws amended.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trayvon Martin‘s mother told a panel of senators Tuesday that state stand your ground self-defense laws do not work and must be amended, reviving the politically charged gun control issue a year ahead of the 2014 midterm elections. But little besides politics emerged from the session, held in the Senate’s made-for-television hearing […]
The TJMS talks with JET‘s Editor in Chief Mitzi Miller about taking a stance against the Stand Your Ground Law on this month’s issue of JET Magazine which has slain teen Jordan Davis on the cover.
The TJMS talks with JET‘s Editor in Chief Mitzi Miller about taking a stance against the Stand Your Ground Law on this month’s issue of JET Magazine which has slain teen Jordan Davis on the cover.
JET Magazine has a long history as Black America’s news magazine. It’s a tradition they take seriously under new editor-in-chief Mitzi Miller. In a sad postscript to 2012, Jet’s first cover story of 2013 is about 17-year-old Jordan Davis, the latest victim of Florida’s notorious “Stand Your Ground” law. “Standing Our Ground” written by acclaimed […]
