On Saturday night, a Jacksonville jury handed defendant Michael Dunn guilty verdicts on three charges of attempted murder for shooting at three minors in a vehicle and one count of shooting into the vehicle, a CNN report said. However, the jury was at a deadlock on the one charge that perhaps was the most resonant of all - the murder charge for killing teenager Jordan Davis.
Prosecutors said during the trial that Dunn fired 10 shots at the teenagers recklessly due to the volume of the teenagers' music in their car at a convenience store parking lot. Three of the ten shots Dunn fired cost Davis, one of the passengers, his life, cutting through his vital organs, CNN said.
Dunn testified in his defense, claiming that Davis caused him to react in self-defense as the latter supposedly threatened him, and he thought he saw a gun sticking out of the SUV during his confrontation with the victims.
CNN said that Dunn's trial echoed another famous trial, which is that of George Zimmerman's. Zimmerman claimed that he fatally shot 17 year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on the basis of the state's "stand your ground" law, which is basically having people resorting to deadly force to protect themselves from danger in their own homes.
The news outlet said Dunn is set to face 60 years in jail or more for the attempted murder charges filed against him. On the other hand, CNN legal analyst Paul Callan said that Davis' family could request for a retrial if they feel that Jordan's reputation has been besmirched during the initial trial. "On the other hand if you're the parents of Jordan Davis and you believe, as well you should, that your son's reputation has been besmirched by this self-defense claim, the family (might) want a retrial, and that's something that a prosecutor has to consider carefully."
CNN said that Florida state attorney Angela Corey will be pursuing for another trial in Duval County to bring justice to Davis' family.
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