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   JACKSONVILLE — Jurors have begun a second day of deliberations   
   in the first-degree murder trial of Floridian Michael Dunn,   
   charged in the 2012 shooting death of a 17-year-old in a dispute   
   over loud rap music.   
      
   Dunn, a 47-year-old software engineer, says he feared for his   
   life and was acting in self-defense on Nov. 23, 2012, when he   
   fatally shot Jordan Davis in a gas station parking lot.   
      
   Dunn testified that music coming from the Dodge Durango where   
   Davis sat with three friends, all black, was "obnoxious," and   
   said he fired 10 shots at the SUV. Davis was hit three times and   
   died a short time later. The case has been compared to the   
   racially charged Trayvon Martin case, in which neighborhood   
   watchman George Zimmerman said he killed the Florida teen in   
   self-defense during a February 2012 altercation. Zimmerman was   
   later acquitted of second-degree murder.   
      
   Dunn testified in court this week that he felt threatened as   
   Davis hurled insults at him from the SUV. Dunn also testified   
   that Jordan reached down, picked something up and slammed it   
   against a rear passenger door of the Dodge Durango where he sat.   
      
   Assistant State Attorney General John Guy testified that Davis   
   never was a threat. Prosecutors said no weapon was found in the   
   Durango.   
      
   Dunn and his fiancée were in Jacksonville to attend the wedding   
   of Dunn's son, Christopher.   
      
   Assistant State Attorney Erin Wolfson told jurors in closing   
   arguments Wednesday that Dunn should be convicted of murder   
   because he "went crazy" and systematically and methodically   
   fired "round after round after round" — 10 bullets in all — into   
   a Dodge Durango containing four black teenagers.   
      
   "Let me be very clear. On Nov. 23, 2012, this defendant shot and   
   killed Jordan Davis. There was no gun in that Durango. There was   
   no stick. There was no bat. There was no lead pipe. There was no   
   gun," Wolfson said, kicking off closing arguments at the Duval   
   County Courthouse in downtown Jacksonville.   
      
   "What was in that Durango was four teenage boys," Wolfson said.   
      
   Dunn's defense lawyer, Cory Strolla, told jurors that his client   
   had every constitutional right under the law to defend himself   
   that night, and he attacked the prosecution's evidence against   
   his client — "garbage in is garbage out."   
      
   Jurors can consider lesser charges of second-degree murder,   
   manslaughter, second-degree attempted murder and attempted   
   manslaughter.   
      
   http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/13/michael-   
   dunn-jordan-davis-murder-trial/5438345/   
      
       
      
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