George Zimmerman's lawyers quit, say they lost track of him
In an unexpected turn, George Zimmerman's attorneys announced they are stepping down from the case, not long after he launched a website asking for donations to pay for his legal fees.
In a press conference held in Sanford, Florida this afternoon, two of Zimmerman's attorneys said they've been unable to contact him for several days and will no longer represent him. According to attorneys Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig, Zimmerman has not responded to texts, calls, or emails from them since Sunday.
"On Sunday, we lost track of George," Sonner said to reporters.
Sonner and Uhrig said they believe he is safe, but he may be struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and is not in "complete control of what is going on." Uhrig would not comment on Zimmerman's whereabouts but said he believes he is in hiding somewhere in the United States, and later implied that he is no longer in Florida.
"There's a bounty out there on his head, whether it's believed to be a real bounty or not, it's out there," Uhrig said.
The attorneys also made it clear that they are still willing to represent Zimmerman if he approaches them and reasonably explains his absence as a result of the mounting pressure surrounding the case. Both attorneys proclaimed that they still believe Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in self-defense.
"We hope for the best for George Zimmerman and we hope for the best for the Martin family as well," Uhrig said.
The attorneys also addressed the website Zimmerman recently launched to solicit donations toward his legal fees and living expenses. According to the lawyers, Zimmerman decided to launch the site without notifying his lawyers, even though his legal team was planning to create a website on his behalf.
Zimmerman as not been charged, but his former legal team said it believes a decision by the special prosecutor assigned to the case is forthcoming.
"We believe most of the information they need to make a decision is now in their possession," Uhrig said.
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Anyway, I briefly brought up Zimmerman (thought dad wasn't home) and my dad stormed into the room and told me: "He's innocent! That punk kid was beating the crap out of him! The blacks and news are getting angry because it was a black man. If a white boy had been killed, no one would care this much. That kid wasn't innocent."
My mom was never that great, racism-wise, but she's gotten really bad about it these past few years, going on about how non-whites are "taking over everything" and how Obama is "arming all the blacks and building an army to take over the US."
I really want to chalk it up to some kind of early-onset dementia, but I know better. She's still as sharp as ever, she's just turned really racist for some reason.
Gays? They "make her skin crawl." (But at least that's the worst she is about the matter; she actually helped me hide my HS term paper research materials when I was in school, because if her ex-husband had seen me arguing in favor of gay marriage, he would have thrown me out of the house. At 16.)
Don't mention liberals around her, either, or you'll get a three-hour screed about how they hate America and want to take away everyone's rights and shove government into every aspect of everyone's lives and put people who disagree with them in prison... And the one time I even bothered trying to argue with her about that, she slapped me across the face.
...yeah, I don't bother with that anymore.
And the less said about her ex-husband, the better. That bastard probably called Zimmerman up and offered to buy him drinks and let him crash in the guest room because he "did everyone a favor."
I think so, yes.
(But at least that's the worst she is about the matter; she actually helped me hide my HS term paper research materials when I was in school, because if her ex-husband had seen me arguing in favor of gay marriage, he would have thrown me out of the house. At 16.)
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Your mom sounds like my dad. He's gotten worse since Obama came into office. Which seriously makes me think it's more of a race issue than anything else. (Though he's hated Muslims - they're going to kill us all - since 9/11)He also believes that liberals are trying to take over the world and that soon they'll control everything. He has spent the last three years talking about Obama putting whites in "camps".
My mom isn't as bad, she just has two points: she is very conservative - Obama is the anti-Christ. They are both also very anti- gay marriage. The Bible tells them it's terrible and marriage is (and always has been) religious. I tried to tell them marriage isn't really all that connected to religion, but they were just not having it. My mom may be anti-gay marriage, but she claims she doesn't mind the lgbt community in general. My dad on the other hand wants them all shipped off to liberal/communist Europe.