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The judge hearing the George Zimmerman second-degree murder case may have a potential conflict, she said at a Friday hearing.Seminole County Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler announced that her husband works with an attorney who has been hired to act as an analyst on the case for CNN.Recksiedler said she scheduled the brief hearing because she wanted to make prosecutors and Zimmerman's attorney aware of the situation.
Defense attorney Ken Padowitz calls the second-degree murder charge that State Attorney Angela Corey brought against George Zimmerman an "excellent legal strategy for the prosecutor." "She's brilliant in how she went about this strategically, by charging him with second-degree murder, the jury at any future trial will now have an option of coming back guilty as charged with second-degree murder or a compromise verdict of manslaughter," he says. But winning a conviction will not be easy, Padowitz notes. He also expects that Zimmerman's defense attorney, Mark O'Mara, will attempt to use Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law to get immunity for Zimmerman, 28, who is charged in the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin, 17, of Miami Gardens.
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