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Reuters General/ ­- Article, Ter, 17 de Abril de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)<br />

Florida judge in Trayvon Martin case to<br />

decide on recusal<br />

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida | Tue Apr 17,<br />

2012 4:21pm EDT (Reuters) ­- A Florida judge will<br />

decide this week whether to step down from the<br />

second­-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, the<br />

neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the shooting<br />

death of 17­-year­-old Trayvon Martin. Circuit Judge<br />

Jessica Recksiedler disclosed last week that her<br />

husband's law partner previously had been contacted<br />

by Zimmerman seeking representation. Zimmerman's<br />

lawyer, Mark O'Mara, on Monday filed a motion asking<br />

Recksiedler to recuse herself. Recksiedler is on<br />

temporary assignment from the Florida Supreme<br />

Court, hearing oral arguments at the Fifth District<br />

Court of Appeal in Dayto<strong>na</strong> Beach, Florida. She will<br />

issue a written order by Friday on the recusal motion,<br />

according to a court news release issued on Tuesday.<br />

A bond hearing is set for Zimmerman on Friday. The<br />

court spokesman was u<strong>na</strong>vailable to comment on<br />

Tuesday on whether that hearing would go forward as<br />

scheduled if another judge takes over the case. In<br />

what the court spokesman previously acknowledged<br />

was an unusual decision, a different judge at<br />

Zimmerman's first appearance on Thursday sealed all<br />

court records filed in the case after that date. Martin<br />

was killed February 26 after he went to a convenience<br />

store to buy s<strong>na</strong>cks before watching the NBA All­-Star<br />

game on television. As he walked through a gated<br />

residential community where he was staying with his<br />

father and father's fiancee, Martin, a black teen, was<br />

spotted by Zimmerman, a white Hispanic. Prosecutors<br />

allege Zimmerman profiled Martin, disregarded police<br />

instructions, confronted and then killed Martin with a<br />

single gunshot to the chest. Zimmerman has claimed<br />

self­-defense in the shooting in the central Florida town<br />

of Sanford. Police initially failed to arrest him or charge<br />

him with any crime because Florida's so­-called "Stand<br />

Your Ground" law allows individuals who feel<br />

threatened in a public place to use lethal force in<br />

self­-defense. (Editing By Tom Brown and Eric Walsh)<br />

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