The legal team representing the man who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, called a surprise news conference yesterday to deliver an important message to the media — they will no longer represent George Zimmerman.
Attorney’s Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig announced they were withdrawing from the case because they had lost total contact with Zimmerman, who continues to remain in hiding and has recently refused to answer their calls, texts and emails. “Communication can’t be one way,” the lead attorney said. “I can’t hold myself out as the attorney of record at this point. It wouldn’t be ethical for me. That’s why I’m stepping back.”
The lawyers said they had not spoken to Zimmerman since Sunday, after they set up a website for his legal defense at his father’s request. But the following day, Zimmerman himself set up a separate website, catching the lawyers totally by surprise.
Zimmerman also made some other bizarre choices, including making a call to Fox TV’s Sean Hannity and even directly contacting the special prosecutor, who refused to speak to Zimmerman without his lawyers present.
“We were a bit astonished,” Uhrig said regarding Zimmerman’s phone call to the special prosecutor. “There were lots of things going on that I don’t know about.” Uhrig and Sonner added that Zimmerman is highly depressed, is not thinking clearly and has reportedly lost a lot of weight due to the stress of the situation — information that could come back to haunt him should he ever be charged for killing Martin.
There was strong speculation yesterday that charges against Zimmerman are imminent, after special prosecutor Angela B. Corey promised “new information regarding the Trayvon Martin shooting death investigation” within 72 hours. Is an arrest forthcoming? Stay tuned…
So much about this case has stank to high heaven from the very beginning and the stench just keeps getting worse…smh. Look. I'm not an attorney but it seems to me that these two guys acted in a NON-professional manner by going on CABLE NEWS and shooting off their mouths about Zimmerman's possible state of mind. If they feel they can no longer represent the man then okay…drop him. But this case could be heading to trial in the future. Going on TV and muddying the jury-pool with OPINIONS as to what Zimmerman's current state of mind may OR may NOT be just seems like a violation of professional conduct to me.As to Zimmerman's possible state of mind:Not long after this story really began to unfold and some pretty accurate information about his history became public, I expressed on OK WASSUP! that it seemed to me that Zimmerman's PRIMARY problem is that he's a paranoid personality type, with his obsessive racist tendencies being secondary. I still think he fits that description.However, I… Read more »