George Zimmerman has 48 hours to turn himself in to police and return to jail.
A Florida judge on Friday revoked the 28-year-old neighborhood watch
volunteer’s bond, granting a motion filed earlier in the day by
prosecutors who accused Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie, of lying to the
court about his finances to secure a lower bond.
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder for shooting and
killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, something that Zimmerman claims was
done in self-defense.
During Zimmerman’s original bond hearing in April, Shellie testified
that she and her husband had limited funds to pay for his bail and
Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester ultimately allowed Zimmerman to be released
on a $150,000 bond. Several days later, however, Zimmerman’s attorney
acknowledged that his client had raised more than $200,000 from a
website, a sum that was not disclosed during the bond hearing.
(Prosecutors say the PayPal account in question had about $135,000 in it
at the time of the hearing, according to the Associated Press.)
