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George Zimmerman suffered two minor cuts to his scalp but no serious head trauma during his fatal confrontation with Trayvon Martin, according to his medical report.

A Florida judge will decide whether to set a second bond for the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin.

A confidential report released Tuesday from Florida prosecutors shows that George Zimmerman passed a lie detector test the night he shot Trayvon Martin.

The legal team for George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, has released Mr. Zimmerman's written statement and several audio and video interviews with investigators, in which Mr. Zimmerman says he was ambushed and then pummeled so violently by Mr. Martin that his head “felt like it was going explode” and that the teenager had covered his nose and mouth before reaching for Mr. Zimmerman’s firearm.

Trayvon Martin's killer George Zimmerman used money raised for his defence fund to pay off credit cards and other personal debts, recordings of prison conversations released by prosecutors Monday suggest.

A man who appeared at a murder trial at the Old Bailey in a hospital bed is jailed for murdering his ex-wife and her mother.

An attorney says George Zimmerman has returned to Florida so he can turn himself in to police after having his bond revoked.

A witness in the Trayvon Martin case gives a clear account of the fight just before a fatal gunshot was fired: a black man with a hoodie on top of a white man. But another witness recalls it quite differently: a man with a white shirt on top of another. The stark contradictions from witnesses are not uncommon and underscore the difficulties prosecutors will have in trying to portray the final moments of Trayvon's life to a jury. Whether George Zimmerman will go to prison for killing Trayvon will probably rest on troublesome witness accounts and the inherent unreliability of human memory, experts say.

A judge on Friday revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned to jail within 48 hours, saying George Zimmerman and his wife misled the court about how much money they had available when his bond was set at $150,000.

Four witnesses in the Trayvon Martin case changed their accounts of the night he was killed by George Zimmerman, the Orlando Sentinel says. Three revisions may damage Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 shooting, the paper says. A fourth witness "abandoned her initial story" about seeing one person chasing another, stating she saw only one person.