{"id":14068,"date":"2012-04-19T14:02:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14068"},"modified":"2012-04-19T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:02:04","slug":"zimmerman-asks-for-new-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14068","title":{"rendered":"Zimmerman Asks For New Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANFORD, FL &#8212; The neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing an unarmed black teenager in Florida asked a judge in the case to step down Monday after she revealed a potential conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Zimmerman&#8217;s<\/strong> attorney, <strong>Mark O&#8217;Mara<\/strong>, filed the request and said Circuit Judge <strong>Jessica Recksiedler<\/strong> revealed the potential conflict last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zimmerman<\/strong> was charged last week with second-degree murder in <strong>Trayvon Martin&#8217;s<\/strong> Feb. 26 death. The lack of an arrest in the shooting inspired weeks of protests nationwide.<strong> Zimmerman<\/strong> is pleading not guilty, saying it was self-defense.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recksiedler&#8217;s<\/strong> potential conflict involves her husband, who works with attorney <strong>Mark NeJame.<\/strong> <strong>Zimmerman&#8217;s<\/strong> family first approached <strong>NeJame<\/strong> about representing <strong>Zimmerman<\/strong>. He declined and referred them to <strong>O&#8217;Mara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANFORD, FL &#8212; The neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing an unarmed black teenager in Florida asked a judge in the case to step down Monday after she revealed a potential conflict of interest. George Zimmerman&#8217;s attorney, Mark O&#8217;Mara, filed the request and said Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler revealed the potential conflict last week. Zimmerman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}