The trial is over, George Zimmerman has been acquitted, and the earliest demonstrations after the Florida verdict Saturday night came and went mostly in peace. Yet if the high drama has ended over the legal question of whether Zimmerman would be punished for the 2012 slaying of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., writers have begun confronting the legal and moral implications of a not-guilty verdict. Here's a sample of some of those early reactions. At BuzzFeed, Elliot Felig, a former assistant district attorney, focused on the legal mechanics of the prosecution. "Zimmerman’s acquittal came as no surprise because of a number of things that happened at this trial,...
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