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In this photo provided by the Fox News Channel, Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity, right, interviews George Zimmerman, left, and his attorney Mark O’Mara, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at an undisclosed Florida location. Zimmerman has been charged with second degree murder for the Feb. 26, 2012 shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. He is claiming self-defense under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. The telecast airs Wednesday at 9 p.m. on the Fox News Channel. (AP Photo/Fox News Channel)

Zimmerman starts own website to improve fundraising

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Friday, July 20, 2012 - 9:57am

MIAMI - Has George Zimmerman gone rogue?

He launched his own Internet site Wednesday night, saying his lawyer’s Web page had failed in three key missions: disputing information, fund-raising and providing a voice for him.

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Zimmerman spent $36,000 in contributions while in jail

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 4:43pm

MIAMI - George Zimmerman went through almost $36,000 of contributions in 18 days spent mostly in jail, spending a bulk of his newfound cash on telecommunications, newly filed court records show.

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Did Zimmerman's attorney know of donations?

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 11:41am

MIAMI - Prosecutors released nearly 150 of George Zimmerman’s recorded jailhouse phone calls Monday, including one that suggests his defense attorney knew from the start that tens of thousands of dollars in donations had begun pouring in.

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FILE - In this June 29, 2012 file photo, George Zimmerman, left, and attorney Don West appear before Circuit Judge Kenneth R. Lester, Jr. during a bond hearing at the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman called police multiple times to report black men he thought were suspicious in his neighborhood in the months before he fatally shot an African-American teen, but both his ex-fiance and the lead detective investigating Trayvon Martin’s death didn’t regard the ex-neighborhood watch leader as racist, according to documents and recordings released Thursday, July 12, 2012 by prosecutors. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool, File)

Zimmerman hid from public eye in air marshal's home

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Friday, July 13, 2012 - 1:40pm

MIAMI - In the height of the national outrage over the shooting of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman hid out for over a month in nearby Lake Mary at the home of a federal law-enforcement agent - a former Seminole County Sheriff deputy who was pressured to quit after he was duped by a con artist and violated department policy.

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FBI found no evidence Zimmerman was racist

Frances Robles, Scott Hiaasen The Miami Herald

Last updated Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 11:53am

MIAMI - After interviewing nearly three dozen people in the George Zimmerman murder case, the FBI found no evidence that racial bias was a motivating factor in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, records released Thursday show.

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In this still image taken from video, George Zimmerman leaves the Seminole County Jail after posting bail, Friday, July 6, 2012, in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman left the Seminole County Jail a day after Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester granted a $1 million bail with strict conditions. The neighborhood watch leader is required to stay in Seminole County. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and claims the shooting was self-defense under the state's "stand your ground" law. (AP Photo/Mike Lewis)

George Zimmerman released on $1 million bond

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Friday, July 6, 2012 - 3:15pm

MIAMI - George Zimmerman posted bond and walked out of jail Friday, a day after the judge in his second-degree murder case set his new bond at $1 million.

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Doctor says Zimmerman had black eyes, broken nose

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 5:15pm

MIAMI - The day after he killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman went to the doctor with a broken nose, black eyes and two cuts on his head, but the physician determined he didn’t suffer any head trauma, newly released medical records show.

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FILE - This file booking photo provided by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office shows George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman poses no threat to the community and should be released a second time on bail, his attorney said in a court motion released Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Seminole County Sheriff's Office, File)

Zimmerman failed to appear in previous court case

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 10:42am

MIAMI - George Zimmerman will be back in court Friday, battling for a chance to be freed on bond, for the second time, in a high-profile murder case.

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Records show detective doubted George Zimmerman's story

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 9:43am

MIAMI - Prosecutors released another batch of evidence in the George Zimmerman murder trial Tuesday, including a statement from the lead detective that shows the investigator doubted the shooter’s story, even though he passed two lie detector tests.

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In this Feb. 27, 2012 image taken from a Sanford Police video posted on a website called gzlegalcase.com by George Zimmerman's defense team, Zimmerman speaks to investigators, (not shown) at the scene of Trayvon Martin's fatal shooting a day later giving police a blow-by-blow account of his fight with the teen. On the tape, Zimmerman did a reenactment of the scuffle with Martin in the moments before he shot the 17-year-old from Miami. (AP Photo/Sanford Police video via Zimmerman Defense Team)

Zimmerman said Martin assured him he was going to kill him

Frances Robles, Marc Caputo The Miami Herald

Last updated Friday, June 22, 2012 - 10:21am

MIAMI - Three days after George Zimmerman killed an unarmed teenager and went home free, he had a predicament: The lead detectives investigating the shooting seemed to no longer believe his story.

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Zimmerman rode with cops, called them lazy

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 5:50am

MIAMI — A year before George Zimmerman killed a Miami Gardens teenager, he stood before a City Hall community forum with a grievance: Sanford cops are lazy, he told the then-mayor elect.

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This combo made from Feb. 27, 2012 photos provided by the State Attorney's Office shows George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin. The photo and reports were among more than 200 pages of photos and eyewitness accounts released by prosecutors Thursday, May 17, 2012. (AP Photo/State Attorney's Office)

What the evidence in Trayvon Martin case doesn't show

Audra D.S. Burch, Frances Robles, Scott Hiaasen The Miami Herald

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 10:30am

MIAMI -- The stack of evidence released last week in the second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman is notable, legal experts say, for what's not in it: firm evidence that Zimmerman acted with malice when he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

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Evidence released sheds new light on Trayvon Martin case

Audra D.S. Burch, Frances Robles, Marc Caputo The Miami Herald

Last updated Friday, May 18, 2012 - 8:38am

MIAMI -- A trove of evidence collected for George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial was made public Thursday, including the report that shows the lead detective originally wanted to file manslaughter charges because he said the whole encounter could have been avoided with better judgment and a little dialogue.

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Autopsy shows Trayvon Martin had smoked marijuana

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 5:42pm

A trove of evidence collected for George Zimmerman's highly anticipated second-degree murder trial was made public Thursday, including an autopsy report documenting Trayvon's single gunshot wound to the chest.

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Zimmerman's father: 'Our lives will never be the same'

Frances Robles The Miami Herald

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 10:04am

MIAMI — Robert Zimmerman is a retired magistrate living like a fugitive.

He stays in hotels under assumed names. He pays cash so no one will look at his surname and make the connection: This is the father of one of the nation’s most controversial murder defendants.

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