SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Florida jurors on Tuesday saw the gun that neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman used to shoot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin and graphic pictures of Martin's body as prosecutors pressed for Zimmerman's murder conviction. The pictures shown to the six-member, all-female jury included a close-up of the bullet hole in 17-year-old Martin's chest which prompted his father, Tracy Martin, to abandon the courtroom overcome with emotion. At the request of the prosecution, Diana Smith, a crime scene technician, also brandished for jurors the Kel-Tec 9mm semi-automatic that Zimmerman used to shoot Martin at point-blank range. Zimmerman, 29 and part Hispanic,...
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