ORLANDO — The neighborhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin can be released from jail while he awaits trial on a second-degree murder charge.
A Florida judge on Thursday granted bond for a second time to George Zimmerman. Bail was set at $1 million.
Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester had revoked Zimmerman's $150,000 bond last month after prosecutors told the judge Zimmerman and his wife misled the court about how much money they had during an April bond hearing.
Prosecutors said a website Zimmerman created for his legal defense had raised $135,000 at the time of his first bond hearing. Zimmerman and his wife did not mention the money then, and Shellie Zimmerman even said the couple had limited resources because she was a student and he wasn't working.
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Comments » 48
romneygate writes:
He must be the NRA's "million dollar baby".
HAL9000 writes:
A switch on STAND YOUR GROUND in Phoenix case:
http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-ne...
wonderful (Inactive) writes:
Give credit for community service hours and put him on the streets of chicago to help organize it, eh?
WadeGarrett (Inactive) writes:
...and you the booby prize.
Captian_Cataracts writes:
Let's just make a deal with him...he can leave prison when the kid he killed can leave his grave.
That's fair isn't it?
Max_Headroom writes:
'Elephanttamer' returns!
AmericasTrueRecoveryBeginsIn2016 writes:
And, Arizona law has what to do with Florida law, exactly?
AmericasTrueRecoveryBeginsIn2016 writes:
Lucky for Zimmerman and the rest of the citizens of this country that our legal system doesn't work that way.
He hasn't been convicted of anything in a court of law yet, just in the court of public opinion by narrow-minded people like you.
romneygate writes:
Oh, did that ruffle your feathers? Poor baby!!!
romneygate writes:
Exactly. O.J. Simpson would agree with you 100%.
CoolridenJoe (Inactive) writes:
Obama wants to take away every persons right to keep and bear arms in an up treaty signing, that way only criminals, police and the military w
ill have guns.
CoolridenJoe (Inactive) writes:
Correction
Obama wants to take away every persons right to keep and bear arms in an up coming treaty signing, that way only criminals, police and the military will have guns.
wonderful (Inactive) writes:
HU?
Someone said they found him in the 'Bushes' at the beach, eh?
Does just about the same job as present obama as the elephants are running wild on the way to victory in NOvember!
G-----
romneygate writes:
Have you ever passed any exam?
romneygate writes:
C'mon Joe, when did Obama say he wants to take your gun away? Where and when is this "treaty" going to take place? Has Rush or the NRA set the date?
voltihs writes:
The media continues to put up pictures of the victim showing him as a 12 year old sweet little boy when in fact he was a 17 year old 175 lb tatted up thug whose Face Book name was "Wild N---a." The media can't be trusted at all.
munchkinsdaddy2 writes:
THIS IS PURELY PUNITIVE. This is just wrong on so many levels clearly an abuse of power by a sitting judge
NDNisLame writes:
He was 5'11 and 158 pounds. And that FB page, wasn't HIS...
NDNisLame writes:
Bobby, come on now, the thug ATTACKED HIM, he HAD to defend himself...EVERYONE knows this, it's FACT.....
/sarcasm off
NDNisLame writes:
Bobby, I agree with you 100 percent, see the /sarcasm?
joeblow writes:
Free Zimmermann!!!!!!!
BOFTW writes:
Seriously loving this judge. If I were Z, I'd be sweating the whole "really, I'm not a liar" thing at the hearing where he's supposed to convince said judge that he was "reasonably in fear" before he took T out.
7654321 writes:
I call B.S. on you. Is that a fact you can back up with a quotation or are you just repeating something someone told you.
AmericasTrueRecoveryBeginsIn2016 writes:
I doubt it.
O.J. Simpson is in prison, isn't he?
goodview writes:
Is it breaking the law to follow someone who you believe to be suspicious? Is against the law to put a "beatdown" on someone when asked a question by someone who is involved in that community's watch program? Is it against the law to protect yourself when someone is beating the crap out of you simply because you asked him what they are doing in a neighbor hood who has had numerous crimes in the previous months? I believe Travon should have been cool, kept his hands to himself and answered Zimmerman in a polite tone he would be alive today. I think he chose to act all big and bad and now he's dead. It is a terrible shame for both. Based on what I have heard,read and watched I believe Zimmerman will be found NOT guilty.
NDNisLame writes:
I believe you have no idea what happened...
keekee writes:
I think the bail set for Casey Anthony, who as we all know did end the life of a truly innocent human, was only set at $500.000, right?
I’m afraid Mr. Zimmerman should just strap himself to that wooden stake, douse himself in gasoline, strike the match and get it over with because this blood thirsty crowd obviously will not accept anything less.
When are we going to stop allowing the media to create the story?
goodview writes:
No one really does. All we can base our beliefs on is what we have been told. Does not "innocent until proven guilty" still hold true in this country. Or should be rush the jails and prisons and hang everyone who we think deserves it. Is stealing a car today any worse then stealing someone's horse a 100 yrs ago? The folks back then hung/hanged/whatever alot of horse thieves without benefit of a trial. Either way, this is just a dang sad story
romneygate writes:
Right, on another matter all together, but that little factor escaped your "reasoning", right?
puckdog writes:
Two liberals that are so "out of touch" that they argue with the people that AGREE with them!!!......LOL!!!!......
WadeGarrett (Inactive) writes:
Trying to rationalize with hypocrites is futile.
puckdog writes:
Wow BoobyD......You are sure all over this blog!.......Typical liberal.....An expert in something they know nothing about!...YOU were not there,you don't know!!.......hope that you are on the jury...save the taxpayers money....the trial would be over before it starts!!.........LOL!.....
AmericasTrueRecoveryBeginsIn2016 writes:
No, not at all.
But, whether you agree or disagree with the verdict in his murder trial, he was found "not guilty" (as opposed to "innocent", which is something entirely different).
Whether you like it or not, that's how our legal system works. And, it protects people like Zimmerman from vigilantes like you.
Until we come up with something better (which isn't likely), it's the only system we have, like it or not.
In the meantime, liberal extremists like you are welcome to continue picking and choosing how we apply our laws in accordance with your political beliefs.
WadeGarrett (Inactive) writes:
And the murders in Chicago recently ( this year & 4th of July 2012) are who's fault?
http://newsone.com/2020339/chicago-mu...
romneygate writes:
Oh, now I see. When you are said to be not guilty, that doesn't mean you'er innocent, right? Yes sir (or ma'am) that's perfectly clear speaking "conservatively". Say, would you call the Obama haters, "VIGILANTES"?
goodview writes:
Typical, throw race into. I did not say or imply "Uppity". And yes, if a person asked a question either answer it or don't. But you just don't open a can of azzwhoop because you don't like the question. Nor do you shoot someone because you didn't like the answer or lack of one. Has not a thing to do with obeying anyone. And FYI- we ALL answer to someone. I don't care what color you are or where you live.
NDNisLame writes:
Ouch....
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06...
Ruger writes:
This is correct but it doesn't support the liberals anti-Stand Your Ground agenda.
In all States you have the right to Self Defense if you are brutally attacked like Zimmerman was.
Apparently, the liberals have a problem with that too..
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-...
he retains traditional self-defense if he reasonably believed his life was in danger and his only recourse was to employ deadly force.
Thus, if Zimmerman verbally provoked Martin, but Martin then got on top of Zimmerman and banged his head into the ground, broke his nose, bloodied his eyes and persisted in attacking Zimmerman — and if Zimmerman couldn’t protect himself from further attack except by shooting Martin — he would have the right to do that. The prosecution has already admitted that it has no evidence that Zimmerman started the actual fight.
martinm_1 writes:
Total bullcrap,there using him like a political football.he is not guilty of any crime.
silverback writes:
When he (Zimmerman) is found innocent, that yo yo judge should be relieved of his position, disbarred (cuz you know he is a POS attorney and playing politics), and sent to the slug gulag. He has no more business being a judge than Roberts does.
NDNisLame writes:
That's Zimmerman's event...doesn't mean it's true....
just because he said "ok" doesn't mean he stopped.... lol
you may want to look at the link i posted a few up, it shows someone, with a flashlight, like Zimmerman said he had, walking around looking for something/someone, there are multiple cameras showing this.
it's going to quite the hoot when he is found guilty....lol
Cherieo3 writes:
Oh, come on..kid? You looking at the sweet little boy of 10-12 yrs....not the tatooted big one on his way to drugs and robbery?
NDNisLame writes:
Right, because you know how his life was headed. You must be special to know this.
Cherieo3 writes:
You really are not staying abreast of all the Executive orders are you fellow..yes, wants ALL guns taken from private citizens..and next will be the military too..sooo alll people will live happily ever after....under a full dictatorship.
Can't believe you people aren't staying on top of all these Executive Orders that our fearless leader keeps making in the night when everyone is asleep and when some are still not awake! hehehe
philsco writes:
Joe here is afraid of the boogeyman. Run away Joe, run away.
HAL9000 writes:
Just for the record, the shooter in Phoenix was black and the victim Hispanic. No arrest was made even though Stand Your Ground didn't seem to apply in this case. And btw, the Collier County case has been followed nationwide... not just in FLA.
naplestimes writes:
how about the waitress killed this week by three black thugs for her tip money ? Where is all the liberal outrage ???
WadeGarrett (Inactive) writes:
THEY ARE LIBERALLY BLIND!
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