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hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 05:12 PM Mar 2012

Is there a detailed account of what happened to Trayvon Martin?

I've read so many accounts and counterclaims, I'd like a clean version of what everyone is agreed on; time of day, weather conditions, etc. I'm curious about a couple items:

1. Was his younger brother was at home, and did Trayvon go out to get the Skittles for him, or was Trayvon on his own?

2. What was the time line of his father realizing he was missing, and the police getting around to contacting the family? (caveat: I had a teenage daughter go missing one time - we thought she was upstairs and she'd gone out to a movie with friends. I t happens.).

3. On every episode of Law and Order, the police "canvass the neighborhood". I think Trayvon was shot down 70 yards from his back door. I figure that makes it what, maybe 5 doors down at most? Yet no police officer was knocking on the door asking about the shooting?

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Is there a detailed account of what happened to Trayvon Martin? (Original Post) hedgehog Mar 2012 OP
Press doesn't have rules of evidence like a court One_Life_To_Give Mar 2012 #1
wikipedia has been keeping a pretty good summary pokerfan Mar 2012 #2
Thank you hedgehog Mar 2012 #3
There isn't one and won't be until the State Attorney releases more data ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #4

One_Life_To_Give

(6,036 posts)
1. Press doesn't have rules of evidence like a court
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 05:18 PM
Mar 2012

Reviewing any case based upon press reports. Or expecting real world forensics to be anything like what is on CSI. Both destined to lead to disappointments.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
4. There isn't one and won't be until the State Attorney releases more data
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 07:37 PM
Mar 2012

Wikipedia has one, but it still has holes that have been filled by conjecture

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