New Bond Hearing Set for Trayvon Martin Shooter

By BET-Staff
Posted: 06/07/2012 10:45 AM EDT
Filed Under Stand Your Ground, George Zimmerman, International Women's Day, Trayvon Martin

(Photo: AP Photo/Seminole County Sheriff's Office)

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A new bond hearing is set for George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager.

The hearing is set for the morning of June 29.

Zimmerman returned to jail Sunday because his $150,000 bond was revoked after prosecutors claimed he and his wife, Shellie, deceived the court during an April bond hearing.

At the hearing, Shellie Zimmerman testified that the couple had limited funds for bail because she was a full-time student and her husband wasn't working. Prosecutors say Zimmerman actually had raised $135,000 in donations from a website he created.

Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin during a confrontation in a Sanford, Fla., gated community where Zimmerman lived. He's pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense.

 

 

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