Judge John Cooper in Tallahassee wrote that Zimmerman did not show 'any fraudulent representation.'
The defamation and conspiracy lawsuit against Trayvon Martin's parents, filed by the man who fatally shot the Black teen nearly a decade ago, has been dismissed by a judge in Florida.and others had been named in the lawsuit, according to the Associated Press. Judge John Cooper in Tallahassee wrote that Zimmerman did not show"any fraudulent representation."
Zimmerman is a former neighborhood watch volunteer whose shooting of Martin, who was unarmed at the time, drew widespread attention and spurred a national conversation on civil rights and racial profiling, the. He was acquitted in 2013 of second-degree murder and the lesser charge of manslaughter. In addition to Martin's parents and Crump, who represented the family, the lawsuit also named Brittany Diamond Eugene, Rachel Jeantel and HarperCollins Publishers, which published a book by Martin's parents about the case, according to the AP.
The lawsuit also alleged that because Eugene didn't want to testify in the murder trial that she had been talking to Martin before he was killed, her half-sister, Jeantel, pretended that it had been her talking to him instead. Jeantel did end up testifying during the 2013 trial in Florida.
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