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Jun 3, 2012

George Zimmerman turns himself back into jail


George Zimmerman turns himself back into jail - George Zimmerman, the man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, has reported to the Seminole County Jail in Sanford, Fla. two days after a judge revoked his bail.

Zimmerman, 28, arrived in the state Saturday night from an undisclosed "secure location," where he has been staying because of "significant threats against his life," his lawyer, Mark O'Mara, said Sunday. He arrived at the jail before 2 p.m. on Sunday.


Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Fla., was released on $150,000 bail on April 20 after he was charged with killing Martin, 17, who was unarmed, on Feb. 26. The case triggered a nationwide debate about whether race was involved in the shooting; Martin was black, while Zimmerman is the son of a white man and a Peruvian woman.

But Seminole County Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester revoked Zimmerman's bond Friday after learning that Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie Zimmerman, may have misled him about their assets when he set bond. Prosecutors demonstrated that Zimmerman had at least $135,000 that he did not disclose in a special PayPal account he had set up to pay for his defense.

Source:http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/03/12033375-george-zimmerman-turns-himself-back-into-jail?lite