State Attorney Angela Corey released a statement Thursday night regarding the Trayvon Martin investigation. Corey, of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, was appointed last week as the lead prosecutor in the case.
On March 22, Gov. Rick Scott announced his appointment of Corey as the outside prosecutor to investigate the shooting death of 17-year-old Martin, and formed a task force that will review the state’s controversial “stand your ground” law.
Scott made the announcement amid a national furor about the Feb. 26 shooting death of the unarmed black teenager by Sanford neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Black lawmakers called on Scott to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the case.
Norman Wolfinger, the state attorney in Seminole County, which includes Sanford, had sent a letter to Scott requesting that another prosecutor be assigned.
The statement from Corey’s office:
“It has been one week since the Governor’s appointment of State Attorney Angela Corey, of the Fourth Judicial Circuit. Her team of prosecutors and investigators are diligently working to investigate the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
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