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Trayvon Martin Case: 'George Zimmerman Could Walk'

Gov. Rick Scott's hand-picked prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case, State Attorney Angela Corey, told ABC News this weekend that convicting Martin's killer, George Zimmerman, could prove difficult.

"The 'Stand Your Ground' law is one portion of justifiable use of deadly force," veteran State Attorney Angela Corey told the network. "And what that means is that the state must go forward and be able to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. So it makes the case in general more difficult than a normal criminal case."

Zimmerman claimed self-defense all along, and this weekend the lawyer counseling him, Craig Sonner, also told ABC News he was likely to invoke Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law in his defense.

Floridas Stand Your Ground law provides broad latitude to claim self-defense. Sonner said Zimmerman felt "one of them was going to die that night," when he pulled the trigger.

Read the ABC report here.

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