From [HERE] George Zimmerman will be back in court Friday, battling for a chance to be freed on bond, for the second time, in a high-profile murder case. Defense attorney Mark O’Mara hopes the judge considers his "continued cooperation" with police and forgives the last bond-hearing debacle, when the defendant sat silently as his attorney and wife lied to the court about his finances.

The media has forgotten that he also deceived the court about relinquishing his passport. As a symbolic gesture to the court his attorney handed it to the clerk as if to announce that he could not and would not flee the country. Not without his passport. But he failed to disclose that he had another passport that he had just obtained (apparently he claimed his passport was lost and he received another one to replace it. Isn't this Homeland Security Fraud of some kind? Really, only a white man could get away with stuff like this. Lie in open court, murder a black kid and still have a chance to be out on bond watching fireworks on the 4th of July). The passport he gave to the court expired in May. 

Among O’Mara’s arguments: Zimmerman isn’t a flight risk or a danger to the community, nor does he have any history of failing to appear at court proceedings. But Zimmerman was once fined $10,000 in a federal civil lawsuit because he was a no-show at his own deposition, The Miami Herald has learned. Records show lawyers, including one who flew in from Atlanta to take Zimmerman’s sworn statement, waited for him for an hour and a half while they tried unsuccessfully to reach him. Nothing in the court file explained why he missed the deposition.