Trayvon Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. Since then Martin's death has sparked a wave of outrage, support and protests against racial profiling. However new evidence released by the defense team paint a dark picture of Trayvon Martin.
When word broke of Trayvon Martin's murder the US was outraged and demanded the head of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed the 17-year-old. Zimmerman has maintained since day one that he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense, a claim many have seen as racial profiling.
New evidence in the Trayvon Martin case shows texts and photos taken from the victim's cell phone where the teen admits to drug use, fighting in school and takes a photo of a gun.
CNN reports that in one of the texts Martin sent he was complaining to a friend about his mother kicking him out of the house because the police caught him cutting school.
Other texts Travon Martin sent out talk about getting into fights at school and smoking weed.
One of the people Trayvon Martin was texting with asked him if he was becoming a hoodlum. Martin replied that he wasn't a hoodlum he was a "gangsta."
The prosecution wants the Trayvon Martin texts and photos omitted from evidence because they feel the images are not relevant to the case. George Zimmerman's lawyers want to be able to use the texts and photos at trial in case the prosecution attacks Zimmerman's character.
The Daily Mail reports defense attorney Mark O'Mara as saying,
"If [the prosecution] has suggested that Trayvon is non-violent and that George is the aggressor, I think that makes evidence of the fighting he has been involved with in the past relevant."
On Tuesday a judge will decide if the Trayvon Martin texts and photos can be used in the trial of George Zimmerman. In June Zimmerman's trial for second-degree murder will begin.
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