In Ahmaud Arbery Shooting, a George Zimmerman-Style Defense May Resonate With Georgia Jurors

Gregory and Travis McMichael, the father and son charged in the shooting death of Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, appear likely to invoke a defense similar to that raised by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman when he won acquittal of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old African-American who was shot to death while visiting his father in Sanford, Florida. Arbery, an unarmed, 25-year-old black man, was...