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NBC seeks dismissal of Zimmerman suit over 911 tape edits
Very comprehensive article. I don't think NBC is going to get out of this one.
Lawyers for NBC News in March urged a Florida circuit court to dismiss the defamation suit filed in December 2012 by George Zimmerman, who was acquitted last July of second-degree murder in the Trayvon Martin case. The suit centers on NBC News broadcasts that misportrayed a 911 call placed by Zimmerman on Feb. 26, 2012, as the neighborhood watchman pursued Martin through a Sanford, Fla., subdivision. Edits to the tape made it sound as if Zimmerman had volunteered a comment that Martin is black, when in fact the dispatcher had asked him whether Zimmerman was white, black or Hispanic? Another contention in the complaint was that NBC News had knowingly reported the false claim that Zimmerman had uttered a racial epithet in the 911 call.
The case was stayed for about a year in deference to Zimmermans criminal trial, but motions are now flying back and forth between the parties.
Very comprehensive article. I don't think NBC is going to get out of this one.