Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson has thrown out George Zimmerman's lawsuit against NBC Universal, according to Fox News.

Nelson ruled that Zimmerman is not entitled to money from NBC following his defamation lawsuit against the media company.

Judge Debra Nelson stated that Zimmerman failed to prove that NBC News acted with malice when it aired an edited version of his 911 call after shooting Trayvon Martin, according to press reports.

George Zimmerman filed the suit in December 2012 after NBC editors cut out portions of audio recordings of his 911 call, which reportedly made it sound like he had volunteered the race of shooting victim Martin unsolicited, according to Deadline.com.

Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin. In his lawsuit against NBC, Zimmerman reportedly claimed that NBC saw the death of Martin "not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so set about to create the myth that George Zimmerman was a racists and predatory villain."

The judge reportedly stated that the malice standard was appropriate because Zimmerman became a public figure after he shot and killed unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

George Zimmerman "voluntarily injected his views into the public controversy surrounding race relations and public safety in Sanford and pursued a course of conduct that ultimately led to death of Martin and the specific controversy surrounding it," stated Nelson.

NBC News fired three producers over the incident and insisted that there was no intent to portray Zimmerman "unfairly."

"NBC News is gratified by the court's dismissal of this lawsuit, which we have always believed to be without merit," the network said in a statement this morning.