Update at 4:01 p.m. ET:   Zimmerman’s parents, Robert and Gladys, put up their home as collateral to get their son released, according to papers released by the Seminole County sheriff, USA TODAY’s Yamiche Alcindor reports.  Zimmerman will also pay $9.50 a day for his electronic monitoring.
Update at 3:20 p.m. ET:  Read the judge’s bail order … (pdf file).
SANFORD, Fla. —George Zimmerman was released from the Seminole County Jail around 2:50 p.m. Friday after posting a $1,000,000 bond.  A Florida judge ruled Thursday that George Zimmerman can be released from jail a second time on $1 million bond, saying he set the bail amount significantly higher because Zimmerman may have been hiding money as part of a plot to flee the country.

I’m nobody, and this is just my opinion.   Disregard it, take it with a grain of salt, consider it irrelevant.  I’m certainly not in your shoes, but for what it’s worth:

George, STAY IN JAIL !  – Sometimes the worst thing you can give your opposition is exactly what they want.  The entire bond construct, including restrictions, are beyond ridiculous and absurd.
Save your money, stay in jail.   Take control and use the situation to your advantage.    Use the money you would have spent on freedom to hire a media team to get the truth out.   Frame your own narrative.   Yeah, you have $211,000 to defend yourself against the onslaught, but tell your story. (more…)

Judge Lester is specifically and intentionally using his power to manipulate the Orlando court system, in a flawed ideological effort to avoid being on the wrong side of those political forces who can bring him down.  It appears George Zimmerman is being set up to fail with the current Bond Ruling.

The Judicial Order establishing bond has been structured and worded with the specific intent of “using” the legal system to produce a  “desired outcome” (key words “using” and “desired”).
IMHO  –  Representation from “outside” Seminole County is needed asap, and serious consideration should be given to keeping GZ in jail for the moment.   Safer ten-fold. (more…)

Question submitted via email to the TreeHouse Tip Line

Question: I’ve been on the side of Zimmerman is Not Guilty etc ever since the evidence started showing up, next to none of it even *remotely* suggesting a crime, and all the circumstantial stuff that people claim make him guilty I know is so easy to explain in light of the facts…except for one.
The lack of GZ’s blood on Trayvon’s hands. I know breaking a nose wouldn’t put any blood there, bashing in his head, etc. I know it’s possible to give one hell of a beating and end up with no bruising or blood on your hands.
But putting your hands over someone’s nose and mouth after the nose is broken and bleeding…has it been answered somewhere how that blood didn’t get on Trayvon’s hands? (A mixed DNA profile on one sleeve *could* explain it but that seems thin). (more…)

*Note  O’Mara shares the current Zimmerman Defense Fund balance is $211,000 with various considerable expenditures now taking place. Considering $50,000 was placed in a living account by O’Mara for the Zimmermans in hiding, and now entering the paid testimony costs, lawyer costs, and attorney staff charges, the burn rate is considerable. It would be interesting to know how much in total was contributed to date.
They must have received well in excess of $300,000 so far, and with an estimated projection for total defense cost exceeding $1 million they have quite a way to go.

Sorry guys, but I’ve been out of loop on family day….   playing catch-up…. Here is some prelim information…. (more soon)

ORLANDO – A Florida judge is delaying his decision on whether to let George Zimmerman out of jail on bond, saying he will rule on the matter later.

Judge Kenneth Lester revoked Zimmerman’s $150,000 bond earlier this month after he said Zimmerman, who awaits trial for the death of Trayvon Martin, and his wife intentionally tried to dissemble about their financial situation in April so that he could get out on bond. The pair did not disclose more than $100,000 raised on a legal defense fund website. Zimmerman’s wife is charged with perjury. (The site raised more than $200,000 in donations.) (more…)

George Zimmerman will be back in front of Judge Lester today for another Bond Hearing.  WFTV will livestream hearing

Orlando:  Last time, the judge set bail at $150,000 but that was before he learned about an online fundraising campaign raking in $1,000 a day.

• Trayvon’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, plan to be at Friday’s hearing.
• At Friday’s hearing, prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda is expected to again ask the judge to keep Zimmerman locked up, and, if not that, to set bail at $1 million.
• Shellie Zimmerman is not on Friday’s witness list. Defense attorney Mark O’Mara has indicated he’ll call two witnesses, both bail bondsmen.
• O’Mara argued in paperwork filed earlier this week that Zimmerman broke no rules while he was free on bail and that he surrendered when the judge revoked bond. The defendant realizes now that remaining silent about all that money rolling in was a mistake, O’Mara wrote.
• The judge said yes to allowing Zimmerman to wear street clothes and no shackles at Friday’s hearing.
• Attorneys for more than a dozen news companies will be at Friday’s hearing, arguing for the release of several public records, including 150 phone calls Zimmerman made from jail and the statement of “witness 9.”

Many people have wondered what President Obama specifically meant in Tucson Arizona when he called his supporters toward a “New Civility“, a “New Tone”…. 
 Now we know.   All you need to do is CLICK HERE to witness first hand.

 

Eric Holder waaaaaas hunted down, like a rabid dog, he waaaas….. attacked in the hearings,…… he waaaaas………….. racially profiled….

WASHINGTON DC – The Congressional Black Caucus plans to walk off the House floor during tomorrow’s votes to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress, according to a letter being circulated among members of Congress. (more…)

How does Chief Bill Lee’s firing tie in with Detective Chris Serino’s removal, and Matt Gutman’s admissions?   Some of this is a combination of factual evidence and blended with a reasonable hypothesis from three months of investigating the players.

It really is not that complex to identify the motives and consequences of the latest developments in the Trayvon Martin Shooting against the backdrop of evidence discovery and known personalities.
First, Lead Detective Chris Serino –  From the outset Detective Serino has held somewhat of a valid chip on his shoulder toward George Zimmerman.  Somewhat valid.   Did he cross the line?  Yes.   Was it out of some grand design to see George Zimmerman incarcerated for Second Degree murder?  No, not likely.
Serino was non sympathetic toward Zimmerman’s position for a variety of reasons.   Zimmerman had thrown his department and some of his pals under the bus regarding the Sherman Ware case against Justin Collison.  Maybe he even thought of Zimmerman as a rogue do-gooder blended with somewhat of a grandiose vigilante complex.
So from the start he just didn’t care for him.   Besides, from his perspective, if Zimmerman had just sat his butt in his car and waited for the police to arrive none of this would have happened.  Especially not all the grief brought upon his department once again by the same loud mouth that created the prior problems with the former Police Chief.   So Zimmerman, from Serino’s perspective was getting a dose of Karma. (more…)