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Title: Martin attorney: Zimmerman misled court about money
Source: CNN
URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/27/justi ... man-money/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Published: Apr 27, 2012
Author: CNN Wire Staff
Post Date: 2012-04-27 06:42:50 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 9561
Comments: 30

(CNN) -- The attorney for Trayvon Martin's family says George Zimmerman should be back in jail because he failed to tell a judge he had $204,000 during a recent bond hearing.

"They tried to portray themselves as indigent that they did not have any money," said Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump. "We think the court should revoke his bond immediately, and he should be held accountable for misleading the court."

Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Martin, has been given about $204,000 from supporters his lawyer Mark O'Mara said Thursday.

The donations Zimmerman received will be discussed Friday at a court hearing in Florida, O'Mara said.

O'Mara told CNN's "AC360" that Zimmerman told him Wednesday of the donations as they were trying to shut down his Internet presence to avoid concerns about possible impersonators and problems with his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

"He asked me what to do with his PayPal accounts, and I asked him what he was talking about," O'Mara told Anderson Cooper. "He said those were the accounts that had the money from the website he had. And there was about ... $204,000 that had come in to date." Discussing Zimmerman's finances Zimmerman raises over $200,000 online The gun laws where you live Will Sanford politics affect case?

O'Mara had said earlier this month that he believed Zimmerman had no money. "I think he's indigent for costs," he said, adding that Zimmerman's relatives had few assets.

Zimmerman, 28, was released Monday on $150,000 bail, 10% of which his family put up to secure his release. He is accused in the February 26 death of Martin, who was African-American.

Critics have accused Zimmerman of racially profiling Martin and unjustly killing him. Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense.

Asked whether knowledge of the money might have made a difference to Judge Kenneth Lester Jr., who presided at Zimmerman's bond hearing, O'Mara said, "It might have."

O'Mara continued, "I'm certainly going to disclose it to the court tomorrow -- coincidentally, we have a hearing."

The hearing was originally scheduled to discuss issues about the unsealing of Zimmerman's criminal file, but the donations could overshadow that issue.

Crump said Zimmerman's failure to reveal that he had the money shows that he is being dishonest.

"If his testimony at the bond hearing is any indication of what is to come, then the lying has already begun," Crump said.

O'Mara said he was prepared to "deal with any fallout," but predicted Lester would not feel misled. "I told him what I knew at the time, which was exactly what I was aware of."

The money has been placed in a secure account since O'Mara learned about it, he said, adding, "Nobody's touching it until we figure out how to handle it."

But criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos said Lester might not react benignly. "I know a lot of judges who would remand the guy back into custody immediately," he said. "If you've got more money stashed in an account and you could just pay the bond and be gone, that gives a lot of judges concern."

Though the account has been closed, O'Mara said he intends to open a legal defense fund for Zimmerman. "I've had dozens, hundreds actually, of people wanting to donate," he said.

O'Mara, who said he charges $400 per hour for family law cases, estimated Zimmerman's defense costs could reach $1 million. "You can really go through a lot of money on a case like this, with the intensity of it," he said.

Although details of the shooting remain murky, it is known that Martin ventured out from the Sanford home of his father's fiancee and went to a nearby convenience store, where he bought a bag of candy and an iced tea. On his way back, he had a confrontation with Zimmerman, who shot him.

Zimmerman had called 911 to complain about a suspicious person in the neighborhood, according to authorities.

In the call, Zimmerman said he was following Martin after the teen started to run, prompting the dispatcher to tell him, "We don't need you to do that." Zimmerman pursued Martin anyway but then said he lost sight of him.

According to an Orlando Sentinel story later confirmed by Sanford police, Zimmerman told authorities that after he briefly lost track of Martin, the teen approached him. After the two exchanged words, Zimmerman said, he reached for his cell phone, and then Martin punched him in the nose. Zimmerman said Martin pinned him to the ground and began slamming his head onto the sidewalk, leading to the shooting.

Police have said Zimmerman was not immediately charged because there was no evidence to disprove his account that he'd acted in self-defense. A police report indicated he was bleeding from the nose and the back of his head.

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#2. To: Ferret Mike (#0)

Zimmerman, 28, was released Monday on $150,000 bail, 10% of which his family put up to secure his release.

Bail was set and paid.

Have you disclosed everything about your assets to government?

We The People  posted on  2012-04-27   7:39:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: We The People (#2)

And he lied during the process leading up to it destroying waht little veracity he may have had after he murdered Martin.

As for me, I have no slush fund and pay my taxes. I also don't harass people on the street because they are wearing a hood, and are walking slowly as they chat with their girlfriend on the phone like this criminal did.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2012-04-27   7:43:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Ferret Mike (#3)

If your bail was $150,000, and you had $204,000, would you pay the $150,000, or have your family members put up 10%?

We The People  posted on  2012-04-27   7:49:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: We The People (#5)

I wouldn't have my family post bail for me, and if I had the assets and had to post bail, I'd do it.

I also wouldn't try to exploit people around the country and try to make money off of them with a gimme Internet site.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2012-04-27   7:54:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Ferret Mike (#7)

I wouldn't have my family post bail for me, and if I had the assets and had to post bail, I'd do it.

OK, would you pay the $150,000 or put up 10%?

Would you go out in public, walking down the street to pay your bail if you were Zimmerman, in such a high profile case with a bounty already placed on you, or would you have a person unknown to the public go post the bail for you?

And who in the hell are you to have already convicted and sentenced this man without a trial or any evidence presented? Obama?

We The People  posted on  2012-04-27   10:02:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: We The People (#11)

Well, I sure wouldn't go out and bother people who are not breaking laws then shoot them.

I am actually very well trained with firearms, and I have been attacked while a student in Portland getting my paralegal certificate at PCC.

I was given a roundhouse kick which did not drop me as I have karate training too anchoring my stance and fighting back.

I was doing very well for the first thirty seconds and when his friends who were there wanting to keep booting those he had been dropping to the sidewalk started in on me, two bouncers from a nearby bar stepped in backing them off.

I was armed with a concealed firearm, but would of resisted pulling it out and using it just because of a loser game like these Eastside White Pride members were playing.

I was familiar with their antics, and they would of been prone to back down rather than go lethal in what they were doing.

I will definitely take a few licks and endure some pain and minor injuries before I will escalate things with a firearm.

They were interdicted by Portland Police a short while later and got into trouble for the attacks they made to others before getting to me as I was walking from Powell's Books where I had been studying.

I have also been stolen from and could of used a weapon to drop the theif before he got away, but I won't kill over a stolen bicycle.

I later got the machine back. I take the responsibility of carrying concealed very seriously. And I would not kill because I had a bloody nose and a scraped head. If this dummy had not had a weapon, no one would of been killed. In fact, he probably would of not been so Dirty Harry about playing vigilante and left alone what was not broken until he touched it.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2012-04-27   10:27:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#18. To: Ferret Mike (#15)

I was armed with a concealed firearm, but would of resisted pulling it out and using it just because of a loser game like these Eastside White Pride members were playing.

What if you actually thought you were going to be killed? What if Zimmerman's story is true, and this kid had him on the ground smacking his head into the concrete?

If this dummy had not had a weapon, no one would of been killed.

Well, while I respect your opinion as well as your right to voice it, I simply don't agree with it, because there is NO way that you could know this for a fact. You have taken sides in a fight where another man's life is in the balance without knowing the facts. That's a knee jerk response.

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