Attorneys clear issues before opening statements
By MIKE SCHNEIDER and KYLE HIGHTOWERBy MIKE SCHNEIDER and KYLE HIGHTOWER, Associated Press?
?George Zimmerman's family members, including his father, Robert Zimmerman Sr., center, mother Gladys Zimmerman, second from right, and wife Shellie Zimmerman, right, stand as the selected jurors enter the courtroom during the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Thursday, June 20, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary Green, Pool)
George Zimmerman's family members, including his father, Robert Zimmerman Sr., center, mother Gladys Zimmerman, second from right, and wife Shellie Zimmerman, right, stand as the selected jurors enter the courtroom during the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Thursday, June 20, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary Green, Pool)
Tracy Martin, second from left, and Sybrina Fulton, left, parents of Trayvon Martin, and their attorney Benjamin Crump, center, stand as the selected jury enters the courtroom during the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Thursday, June 20, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary Green, Pool)
Garry Jones, left, of Atlanta, Ga., and H. Alexander Duncan, of Eatonville, Fla., an attendee of the George Zimmerman trial, discuss the trial outside the Seminole County Courthouse in Sanford, Fla., Thursday, June 20, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Judge Debra Nelson reads the law to potential jurors during George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Thursday, June 20, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary Green, Pool)
Defense attorney Mark O'Mara, left, talks with assistant state attorney Bernie de la Rionda, right, during jury selection in the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Thursday, June 20, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary Green, Pool)
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? Prosecutors in opening statements may say that George Zimmerman profiled Trayvon Martin but they may not say the Miami teen was racially profiled by the neighborhood watch volunteer.
Judge Debra Nelson made that ruling Friday ahead of Monday's expected opening statements in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial.
Zimmerman is pleading not guilty, claiming he fatally shot Martin last year in self-defense.
Defense attorneys had objected to prosecutors saying Martin was racially profiled. Martin was black and Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.
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