Hat Tip Froggie who provides the Transcript of the conversation where O’Mara of Nazareth requests Alms from Disciples on Piers Morgan Show…..
“MORGAN: Coming up, the man who killed Trayvon Martin is out of jail on a million dollars bond. Next, George Zimmerman’s attorney tells me exclusively what Zimmerman has said since he got out.

MORGAN: George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, is out of jail on one million dollars bond. But his attorney made a statement that’s been pretty controversial. Joining me now in his first exclusive interview since he got his client released is that attorney, Mark O’Mara. Mark, welcome back.
MARK O’MARA, ATTORNEY FOR GEORGE ZIMMERMAN: Good evening. How you doing, Piers?
MORGAN: Your client is out. He got his bond. People have been a little bit surprised. I’m going to take this straight to you for your reaction tot his, about the strategy that you’ve adopted, which is to go public and say, if you agree that my clients’ actions were with justified, then donate money to his defense funds.
Tell me about the thinking behind the strategy, and about the way that it’s now blown up as a bit of a controversial thing for you to have done.
O’MARA: Well, it is a bit unique, again. And I’m a bit conflicted by it, to be honest. We try to deal with the reality that George does not have any funds of his own. He can only get those funds from his supporters. And a lot of those supporters, the comments they’ve given us have shown a variety — a spectrum of support, a lot of which are those that believe that George did, in fact, act appropriately.
MORGAN: Right, but it is, as you say, a unique situation for a defense attorney to effectively say, look, you may believe he killed somebody, and he clearly did, but if you think he acted in self- defense and is justified, give us your money. It’s something — as critics would say, and there’s some merit to the argument, it’s slightly crude, isn’t it? It’s a sort of — it’s a very weird thing to be doing, isn’t it?
O’MARA: It is. As I said, I was somewhat — am somewhat conflicted with it, only because it is so very unique. This whole case has shown a lot of unique facets to it, one of which the fact that there is a criminal defense fund at all; secondly, that it’s garnered such an amazing controversy and support throughout the nation and internationally. So it was a decision that we were sort of put in a position of having to do because of the bond amount.
As you remember, Piers, we had talked in the past that I had never really asked for money on George’s behalf. And though we had the defense fund active, we never really pushed it. The reality is, however, that with a one million dollar bond, and a 100,000 dollar fee to get that bond done, we cannot do it without support from George’s supporters.
MORGAN: How do you know, though, that there are no racist groups getting involved in this fund-raising? Are you vetting each donor? Do you know who they are? Clearly, the way this has been framed is an open invitation to any of the racists who raised their ugly heads at the time, to say, hey, this guy shot a black guy, I’m going to give him some money. How do you know that’s not happening?
O’MARA: My true opinion is that I’ve reviewed thousands of the supporters’ comment that have come to us. They have all been positive and I would say appropriate. There have been a very few that have been negative. Those monies have been returned.
So at least those people who are comments are doing it from their heart and from the right place. After all, there could be racist people on both sides of this fence. We have an enormous amount of hate mail that comes to us as well, from racists on the other side of it. Any racists from the white side, if you will, who do something like that, we go into — rebuff them and not accept their money.
MORGAN: What is the time scale now, Mark, in terms of how you see the legal process moving forward in the next few months?
O’MARA: I still think we have about six months of discovery to go. That is getting the rest of discovery from the state, then getting our discovery, getting our request out to various state agencies and organizations that we want to get information from. Then coming up with our experts and then getting ready for either a pretrial motion, a Stand Your Ground motion and then trial if need be.
MORGAN: In terms of his personal safety, is he entitled to any state protection? If he isn’t, what is he doing about protecting himself in terms of security or whatever else he may be having?
O’MARA: Unfortunately, he’s not entitled to any state provided security. So the security that is he under now is only coming from the legal defense fund, which is why again, a request for funds has been made uniquely, but had to be made merely because of a number of reasons. One, his own safety, and two, the presentation of the case.
So it is now on his shoulders, but in effect is on the shoulders of all of his supporters.
MORGAN: Mark O’Mara, as always, thank you for joining us. I appreciate it. ”

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