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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-04T08:37:53.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "spoke with a strong accent of her ethnic group"
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  "textContent": "George Zimmerman may have escaped conviction for shooting Trayvon Martin because an important witness for the prosecution spoke with a strong accent of her ethnic group. I wonder whether courts ought to offer accent interpreters for witnesses whose accents might lead jurors to misunderstand or devalue their testimony, or simply make it a struggle to know what the witness said.",
  "title": "Important witness in George Zimmerman trial"
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