Attorney Mark O'Mara
visited his client George Zimmerman in the John E. Polk Correctional
Facility in Sanford, Florida on Saturday, a day after Seminole County
Judge Kenneth R. Lester Jr. set the bond.
Prosecutors had asked that
Zimmerman remain in jail without bond until trial or that it be set at
$1 million.
With the 10% cash payment
customarily made to secure bond, Zimmerman could be freed with $15,000
from his family, attorneys said.
Speaking to reporters
Saturday outside the jail, O'Mara said his client is "focused on getting
out" while still aware this is "a long, long process."
"This is the first few
steps," the lawyer said. "And he's still very worried about the fact
that he's facing a life sentence on a 2nd-degree murder charge."
Zimmerman apologized in
court Friday to Martin's family for shooting the unarmed, black
17-year-old boy in a confrontation that has riveted the nation and
sparked intense discussions about race and gun control.
"I wanted to say I am
sorry for the loss of your son," he said in an unusual appeal directly
to Martin's family before he testified in the Seminole County Courthouse
in Sanford. "I thought he was a little bit younger than I was, and I
did not know if he was armed or not."
O'Mara said after the
hearing that his client was responding to an interview in which Martin's
mother, Sybrina Fulton, said she wanted to hear from the man who shot
her son.
"He didn't want to defend
himself, he didn't want to discuss the facts of the case. He heard the
request of the family, and he wanted to respond to it," O'Mara said,
adding that an attempt to apologize to the family in private was
rebuffed.
Source: CNN News
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