Posted on 04/27/2012 9:13:03 AM PDT by Beaten Valve
George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of wrongly killing Trayvon Martin, will not immediately have to turn over donations to his website, a Florida judge said Friday.
Zimmerman collected about $204,000 in donations through the website, but did not disclose the contributions during his bond hearing last week, according to Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara.
O'Mara said he learned about the money on Wednesday and he and Zimmerman were trying to shut down Zimmerman's website, Facebook page and Twitter account to avoid concerns about possible impersonators and other problems.
"He asked me what to do with his PayPal accounts, and I asked him what he was talking about," O'Mara told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday. "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."
Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda asked Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. to increase Zimmerman's $150,000 bond. But the judge said he would delay ruling on the request, in part because he does not know if he has the authority to do so.
Lester said he is also concerned about revealing the names of donors.
"I'm not going to make a snap decision," Lester said.
Zimmerman's family testified last week at his bond hearing that they did not have the kind of resources that would have been necessary to meet the prosecution's suggested $1 million bond.
Zimmerman, 28, was released Monday on $150,000 bail, 10% of which his family put up to secure his release while he awaits trial on a second-degree murder charge in Martin's February 26 death.
Although Zimmerman spent some of the contributions on living expenses, about $150,000 remains, O'Mara said Friday.
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..and decoy vehicle rentals
Concur.
Damned decent of hiz zonner to graciously allow Zimmerman to keep the money people freely gave him. Damned decent.
That possibility is a threat to scare away donors.
“.....I’m proud to have donated to George Zimmerman.....”
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And you deserve to feel proud for helping out someone being put upon by the establishment for having the audacity to actually defend himself.
And by the way, despite whatever the Martins’ attorneys may say, these donations are “gifts” and, as such, are not taxable to Zimmerman.
how would one do that?
".....but a street scum rapist killer who has been to prison for 30 rapes, 5 murders, 20 assaults and 25 grand thefts, WHO IS ON WELFARE, should get a $50 bond?"
Yeppers.... $50 will definitely NOT tempt my fictitious street scum to run. GOD forgive that he would sacrifice $50 whole American dollars to keep out of jail on a rape and murder charge.
The two TV Dead Beat Lawyers said on TV that they sent him retainment papers for him to sign. They then said he never returned them.
Sounds to me they should not get a dime.
lol
no one should be getting $50 bonds.
But the extremely rich should have to pay more for their “refundable” bonds to help ensure they don’t skip the country.
So, here’s my question: Did Zimmerman/lawyer lie or withhold information at the time his original bail hearing was held?
Touché!
>> http://www.therealgeorgezimmerman.com/
For awhile, he had a website up where you could donate via PayPal. I think it was http://www.therealgeorgezimmerman.com/
(but don’t hold me to that URL, I may be mistaken.)
However, that particular site has been taken down.
Note that in the OP it said his attorney was planning to take the personal site down.
OK— answered my own question, I think. Zimmerman himself knew about the money (?) on the day of the bond hearing, but the lawyer did not. The judge certainly doesn’t seem upset about it.
Maybe... then again, "all the conservatives on FR" together can't seem to get a @#$%^&* Freepathon ended within a month. :-(
So I'm not sure Zimmerman could get by just on us cheapskates...
I would not trade places with for any amount of money. Best he could do after trial is move to Idaho.
That’s for darned sure.
Why would he had to disclose it? He doesn’t have a public defender.
I would not trade places with for any amount of money. Best he could do after trial is move to Idaho.
That’s for darned sure. ;^)
O’Mara has estimated that Zimmerman’s defense costs will reach 7 figures.
Meanwhile the state of Florida has taxpayers to pay the cost of persecuting Z.
And while Z has raised some $200,000 - how much has been spent by Martin’s family for that racist Crump? And we know Jesse and Al don’t run for free either.
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