Perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the notorious Florida murder trial of George Zimmerman came when the lawyers opted to question a witness using a social media technology they did not know how to operate.

The trial, in Orlando’s Seminole County Courthouse, concluded in July when the jury acquitted Zimmerman of the second-degree murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. The jury’s decision ignited frustration in many, relief in others, and rekindled the conversation about race relations in the United States.

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