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Zimmerman plans to seek legal fees from Florida, lawyer says

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Zimmerman plans to seek legal fees from Florida, lawyer says

Published August 27, 2013
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    June 27, 2013: George Zimmerman, right, speaks with defense attorney Mark O'Mara during his trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. (AP)

George Zimmerman's attorney says he plans to ask the state of Florida to cover $200,000 to $300,000 of his client's legal expenses.

Mark O'Mara told the Orlando Sentinel Monday night that because Zimmerman was acquitted, state law requires Florida to pay all his legal costs, minus the fee that goes to his lawyers.

O'Mara said Monday that a motion asking Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson to authorize the payments "is in the works."

The expenses include fees associated with expert witnesses, travel, depositions, photocopies and the 3-D video depicting Martin punching Zimmerman that defense attorneys presented during closing arguments.

The Orlando Sentinel reported that under Florida Statute 939.06, a defendant who has been acquitted is not liable for costs associated with his or her case. The money would come from the state Judicial Administrative Commission.

O'Mara told the newspaper that the commission, which pays the non-lawyer legal expenses of eligible defendant, is expected to challenge many of the costs.

The 29-year-old Zimmerman was acquitted last month of all charges including second-degree murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., last year. His murder trial lasted five weeks.

An after-hours email sent by the Associated Press to defense attorneys was not immediately answered.

Meanwhile, NAACP President Ben Jealous said Monday his organization collected petitions with more than 1.7 million signatures calling for charges to be filed against Zimmerman for violating Martin's civil rights.

Jealous said the signatures, about a million of which came in by mobile phone and many from young people, would be turned over to the Department of Justice on Monday afternoon.

The NAACP signatures would be in addition to another 219,000 handed over to the Justice Department last week by ColorOfChange, an online civil rights group.

 

 

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This idiot doesn't deserve ONE RED CENT to cover his legal fees! 

 

Let him collect the money online from other racist IDIOTS to pay his damned bills.  I had heard that he raised MILLIONS of dollars that way!

 

Or, let his FAT ASS get a JOB!!

 

:angry:  :angry:  :ph34r:

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This idiot doesn't deserve ONE RED CENT to cover his legal fees! 

 

Let him collect the money online from other racist IDIOTS to pay his damned bills.  I had heard that he raised MILLIONS of dollars that way!

 

Or, let his FAT ASS get a JOB!!

 

:angry:  :angry:  :ph34r:

 

 

 

 

 

                                                    :rolleyes:

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If our State Representatives and weakling State DA down here were cowardly enough to be

bullied by eric holder, a bunch of race-baiting haters, and gangs of roving, bloodthirsty victim-minded reverse-racists

to make Mr. Zimmerman's life a living hell, then they should pay up.

 

We hope they take the funds to pay for it from all these supposed "equality programs" we're drowning in down here, because Mr. Zimmerman is a culturally Hispanic individual who qualifies as such. 

 

And we'd rather see him get it, than all these slackers who sit around on the public dole all day, make & sell crack out of state-funded housing, blighting our neighborhoods and poisoning people and tie up our law enforcement cleaning up their mess whilst us taxpayers pay to house, clothe and feed all their children.

 

While all these greedy toads in our Legislature here lobby themselves into and double-dip into 6-figure bonanzas all day.

 

Good for you, Mr. O'Mara.... hound 'em with that bill until they cough it up. Don't take "no" for an answer!

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This idiot doesn't deserve ONE RED CENT to cover his legal fees! 

 

Let him collect the money online from other racist IDIOTS to pay his damned bills.  I had heard that he raised MILLIONS of dollars that way!

 

Or, let his FAT ASS get a JOB!!

 

:angry:  :angry:  :ph34r:

i guess the gangster rap, drug lifestyle doesn't pay off. Yeah, those are the ones we need to protect. Not the people volunteering their lives to give back and try to make it a better neighborhood.

Zimmerman houses black students. He was more of a role model for the black community than all their daddies. Whose your daddy?

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  I got a neg, :bravo:  .. For rolling my eyes at an assinine remark ... :lmao:

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You get a Plus+1 from us for being a good sport, Beaver.  :D

We know you're a nice boy.. :wub:

i guess the gangster rap, drug lifestyle doesn't pay off. Yeah, those are the ones we need to protect. Not the people volunteering their lives to give back and try to make it a better neighborhood.

Zimmerman houses black students. He was more of a role model for the black community than all their daddies. Whose your daddy?

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:twothumbs: ..... :bump:

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i guess the gangster rap, drug lifestyle doesn't pay off. Yeah, those are the ones we need to protect. Not the people volunteering their lives to give back and try to make it a better neighborhood.

Zimmerman houses black students. He was more of a role model for the black community than all their daddies. Whose your daddy?

Trayvon Martin was NOT a gangster, NOR was he into drugs, you MORON!!

 

When the hell did that creep Zimmerman EVER do ANYTHING for black folks?  SHOW ME!

 

AND, my daddy was a very honorable man, who is no longer here!  Unlike YOU, who are a WASTE of oxygen!!

 

:angry:  :angry:  :ph34r:  :rolleyes:

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I think they need to take out of obama and holder  pockets there ones that brought on.

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You sure are right about that, MYDOGZ! 

They did escalate this and turn it into a 3-ring circus, didn't they.

 

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Oh, and BTW, CANDY --- yes he did do drugs, was a common thief, and a general little rat.

 

Ask the school who tried to cover up his thefts and expulsion for it after discovering the stolen goods on him.

Perhaps you have not seen his OWN posts and pics, or heard what the police had to say.

 

We live here, we know quite a bit about this...

because he was a minor, most bad stuff about him was kept quiet because of child-protection laws --

but word gets out, so does PROOF of THE TRUTH about a very lost, very bad, very angry, very violent teenager.

 

So don't open up this can of worms about what a great guy he was, an innocent child and all that rubbish,

because it is NOT true.

 

He was what he was. 

Face reality and get on with your life and be glad he did not assault you or one of your own loved ones.

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