Trayvon Martin's Mom: ‘This Will Be My First Mother's Day Without My Son'

Mother of shooting victim makes video against Stand Your Ground laws

The mother of Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin has posted a video asking people to push for reexamining Stand Your Ground laws across the country.

"This will be my first Mother's Day without my son Trayvon," Sybrina Fulton says in the minute-long video, posted on Youtube and other sites Friday. "I know it will be hard but my faith, family and friends will pull me through."

Fulton makes a plea for supporters to "spare other mothers the pain that we will feel on Mother's Day and every day for the rest of our lives.

"I'm asking you to join Florida by calling upon the governor of your state to reexamine similar Stand Your Ground laws throughout the nation to keep our families safe," she says.

Martin, 17, was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who maintains he acted in self-defense. Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder following weeks of protests.

Florida Governor Rick Scott formed a task force in the wake of the Martin shooting to examine the state's controversial law which allows citizens to defend themselves with deadly force.

The task force met for the first time in Tallahassee earlier this month.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, said he expects to receive the first round of documents related to the case Monday, according to his website, GZlegalcase.com.

O'Mara said the public release of the new evidence may be delayed because he'd like to review it before it's released.

"Public release of the of the discovery may be delayed as we may be filing a motion to further redact information, and an opportunity to review the discovery is necessary to determine the applicability of that motion," he said.

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