Less than 24 hours after Mark O’Mara raced over to the Lake Mary, Fla., home where his client George Zimmerman was detained by cops after they were called by his estranged wife, the man who successfully defended the killer of Trayvon Martin against a second-degree murder charge called it quits.

“I am not representing George Zimmerman in his recent domestic altercation case or his impending divorce case,” O’Mara told CNN. He’ll still represent him in his defamation suit against NBC, though. Still, O’Mara must be thrilled to be done with his problematic former client.

Shellie Zimmerman’s 911 call yesterday after George “punched my dad in the nose” said it all.


[H]e’s in his car. And he continually has his hands on his gun and he keeps saying, “Step closer.” He’s just threatening all of us with his firearm — and he’s going to shoot us. … I’m really, really afraid. … I don’t know what he’s capable of. I’m really, really scared. … [Dad], get back inside; George might start shooting at us.

Yet, neither Shellie nor her father pressed charges. In fact, Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell said late yesterday that Shellie “changed her story and says she didn’t see a firearm.” In an ABC News report, Bracknell said, “We did not take a gun at all, because there was no reason to take a gun, because his gun was in his truck.” The story also noted that police said that Shellie “told them she never saw a gun but saw George Zimmerman’s hands near where she believed he would have had a weapon.”

But O’Mara’s interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper — where he tried to downplay what happened as “some pushing and touching. … Nobody was injured” — confirmed that Zimmerman did indeed have a gun.








Cooper: Did Zimmerman have a gun in the car?

O’Mara: He had a gun with him, yes. And he was allowed to. And I know there were some reports that he did not have a gun with him, he did.

Cooper later asked O’Mara if he was concerned that Zimmerman was armed given the stress he is under.


O’Mara: Well, he acted appropriately. He never took the weapon out. And the only thing he really did, which he told the police, was on the outside of his shirt, he made sure that the gun wasn’t moving anywhere and didn’t do anything because Mr. Dean [Shellie’s father] was sort of coming at him. That can sort of be seen in the video.

Cooper: So, he had the gun actually on his person not actually in the glove box of his car?

O’Mara: That’s correct.

Perhaps it was that bit of clean-up duty that was the last straw for O’Mara. Zimmerman has been in the spotlight four times since his July acquittal. There was the rescue of a family from an overturned SUV. There were the two speeding tickets. There was the tour of the headquarters for Kel-Tec, the makers of the gun Zimmerman used to shoot and kill Martin. And now comes yesterday’s “domestic altercation case,” which could still yield charges against him.

At the rate Zimmerman is going, he’ll once again need serious legal representation. By walking away from Zimmerman, O’Mara ensures he won’t be a part of drama to come.

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...from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/09/10/mark-omara-fires-george-zimmerman/

On Sept. 9, authorities in Lake Mary, Fla., were summoned to the house the couple once rented from Shellie’s father, after she called 911 to report George was threatening her with a gun, according to police reports, which provide a conflicting picture of the sequence of events. Neither side filed a complaint over the incident, and Shellie said that she now wishes she had pressed charges.

"In hindsight I should've, and I really regret that, but I'm on probation and the officers made it very clear that day if I pressed charges we were all going to go to jail and I would've been the only one to stay there,'' she told Lauer.


from http://www.today.com/news/george-zimmermans-wife-i-have-doubts-i-also-believe-evidence-8C11257699

still saying he killed martin washington post should be added to the law suit martin killed himself as a result of his actions if not
zimmerman would have been found guilty

juries in the south once found white men not guilty when they hanged black men too

has little to do with truth, justice, or ACTUAL guilt,,,

All charges were dropped against the hero Zimmerman after looking at the home security camera system.

Poor Zimmerman. Killing that no good violent punk.

I don't get why Martin was trying to show off for that fat ugly girl who lied under oath. Man, that cow fell off the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. That cow.

She also fell of the stupid tree. I don't see how they got that cow through the door and into the courtroom, I am guessing they had to use Crisco and butter to lube up the door frame to squeeze her through it, not to mention the food bill they had. Hell they had to bribe her with food to keep her calm on the stand and when she started to cry on the stand is when she realized they ran out of food.

Hell, I am sure she has put some all you can eat buffets out of business.

lol, charges were never FILED. how could they be 'dropped',,,,please stop with the fabricated information,,,,

so refreshing, that grown men are big and bad enough online to berate , belittle, and rejoice in the death of minors,,,,

doesn't seem like showing off to try to get away from someone TWICE,,, including once breaking into a run,,,

but, as I will continue to state

whatever makes the stereotype believers sleep better at night,, their good old boy will hurt someone that matters to more people one day,, and he will end up in jail,,

Little bich brought skittles to a gun fight.

Death penalty to the thugs who want to make people bleed a lot.

you shouldn't wish such things upon George

jail will suffice,,,

please stop with the fabricated information,,,,

thats zimmermans line

lol, yeah, poor George,,everyone is always lying on him....


the ex fianc� who says he pushed her, the coworkers who said he threw a woman physically out of a party, the cop he tried to restrain physically, the girl on the phone with his victim who heard t telling him to get off, his witness who saw them 'tussling upright', and now his wife and father in law who called about him threatening them and mother in law who suggests things are stolen from her house,,,,,,,


how many more people will have to 'lie' on him for something to actually be ATTEMPTED to be done,,, I wonder,,,

More Liberal wet dreaming and hating on Latinos.

More wild claims without evidence to support them.

Anyway, blokes like Zimmerman usually get their comeuppance.

I consider him about as latino as the fonz,,,,

I doubt he speaks a lick of Spanish and wouldn't care if he did,,,

Your obsession over this is truly much more frightening.....

I wish they would obsess that much about the killing by some Punks of that 93yo Warhero!