George Zimmerman Back Behind Bars
Former neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, charged in the February death of Trayvon Martin, turned himself in to jail officials in Sanford on Sunday.
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Former neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, charged in the February death of Trayvon Martin, turned himself in to jail officials in Sanford on Sunday.
All eyes are back on Sanford, Florida where the neighborhood watch captain accused of shooting Miami teen Trayvon Martin has been ordered back to jail.
George Zimmerman, who stands accused of killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, will have to report to jail in the next 48 hours after the judge in the case revoked his bail.
A hearing will be held Friday to address the media's efforts to have the records in the murder case against George Zimmerman unsealed.
A hearing will be held Friday to address the media's efforts to have the records in the murder case against George Zimmerman unsealed.
George Zimmerman's prosecutor and attorney are trying to alter the old saying: what's done in the dark will eventually come to light. Motions were filed Thursday asking a judge to keep pieces of evidence out of the public until trial.
Newly released video and audio of George Zimmerman has some wondering what kind of relationship Zimmerman had with Sanford Police before he shot Trayvon Martin.
The defense lawyer for George Zimmerman has warned against judging his client just on the partial evidence released so far in the February shooting death of Trayvon Martin, saying that "looking at it piecemeal is what has caused some of the problems in the past with the case."
Nearly two hundred documents were released Thursday by the Jacksonville State Attorney's Office in the case of a neighborhood watch volunteer who shot an unarmed teen in a gated Sanford community in late February.
Newly released court records document the injuries suffered by George Zimmerman the night he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
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Prosecutors in the George Zimmerman murder trial have released nearly 70 compact discs containing their witness list, photos, numerous hard copy documents, medical records, 9-1-1 call recordings, etc. to the defense.
Thanks to her Miami-Dade County coworkers, Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton, will be able to take an additional roughly eight months off from her county job.
Attorneys for George Zimmerman, the man charged in the shooting death of 17-year old Trayvon Martin, have waived their rights to a speedy trial and filed a motion asking for more time to prepare their case.
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The judge in the murder case against George Zimmerman has rejected the request by prosecutors for a gag order prevention discussion of the case, and has ordered the release of all documents filed with the court for public inspection.
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George Zimmerman, the man charged in the shooting death of Miami teen Trayvon Martin, had a scheduled hearing in Sanford, Florida Friday morning but he stayed in hiding as expected and did not attend.
Despite claiming in a court hearing that he is broke, a website set up by George Zimmerman has raised more than $200,000, according to his attorney.
Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee, who was criticized for not charging George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting investigation, remains on paid leave and under the microscope.
In an odd turn of events, the city commission which gave a no-confidence vote to police chief Bill Lee following the investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin refused to accept his resignation Monday afternoon at a sp0ecial commission meeting, with come commissioners saying they felt the chief was being railroaded out of office.
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