A Florida judge has thrown out George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC Universal.

Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson ruled that Zimmerman, a former Sanford, Fla., Neighborhood Watch volunteer, is not entitled to money from NBC following his defamation lawsuit against the media organization.

Nelson said that Zimmerman failed to show the network acted with malice, according to The Associated Press.

She said the malice standard was appropriate because Zimmerman became a public figure after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, inside a gated community in Sanford, Fla., in 2012

Zimmerman "voluntarily injected his views into the public controversy surrounding race relations and public safety in Sanford and pursued a course of conduct that ultimately led to the death of Martin and the specific controversy surrounding it," said Nelson, who presided over Zimmerman's criminal trial last summer.

Zimmerman had filed the suit two years ago, accusing the media giant of falsely depicting him as a racist in a series of broadcasts NBC ran shortly after Zimmerman shot and killed Martin. In the lawsuit, Zimmerman accused NBC of defaming him by airing edited clips of a 911 call he made on the night of the shooting -- claiming NBC practices "yellow journalism."

His suit is finished unless the ruling is reversed by an appeals court, according to the newspaper.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/30/flo...tcmp=latestnews

I thought he has a slam dunk case due to the editing done by NBC that shaded public opinion.

Was any explanation ever given for this gross incompetence on their part?

They improperly colored the conversation by the way they did their editing.

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Zimmerman "voluntarily injected his views into the public controversy surrounding race relations and public safety in Sanford and pursued a course of conduct that ultimately led to the death of Martin and the specific controversy surrounding it,"

How did Zimmerman do that? Wasn't it NBC (and others) who did that?

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