SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida judge ruled on Wednesday that jurors should hear evidence about volunteer watchman George Zimmerman's criminal justice studies because it was relevant to his murder trial for fatally shooting unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Seminole County Circuit Judge Debra Nelson overruled strenuous objections from Zimmerman's lead lawyer in ordering that the evidence was admissible, siding with prosecutors in deciding that Zimmerman's education was relevant. "The court makes the determination that the testimony bears directly on an issue in the case. Therefore the testimony is substantive and the objections...
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