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Acquiring any object for our museum involves rigorous consultation with a team of museum historians and curators. Any items connected to the Trayvon Martin case – should they even become available – would have to go through that lengthy process." Curators can't plan for specific evidence from the case to be included yet because it was all transported to the FBI for the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into whether Zimmerman violated Trayvon's civil rights. "Trayvon will probably be a bigger history maker than the men before him, because President Obama addressed the situation," said Francis Oliver, curator of the...

Many people in Seminole County are right now getting jury notices that could lead them to the huge role of deciding George Zimmerman’s fate. But are some people talking about getting a notice too much? And could that affect how fair of a trial Zimmerman could get? “They’re all excited, everybody’s watching the mailbox every day to see if they’re going to get one of those letters that come through the mail,” said Francis Oliver, the Curator of Sanford’s Goldsboro Museum.And when people do get them, some are talking about it a lot -- even on Facebook. There’s a post...