Florida Lawyer Who Represented George Zimmerman In Trayvon Martin Case Arrested

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KISSIMMEE (CBSMiami/AP) — Florida defence lawyer Hal Uhrig has posted enslaved aft being arrested successful cardinal Florida for alleged witnesser tampering successful a juvenile rape case, according to sheriff’s officials.

Uhrig, who concisely represented George Zimmerman successful the Trayvon Martin case, was arrested Monday connected charges of solicitation to perpetrate perjury and witnesser tampering, Osceola County Sheriff Marcos López said during a quality conference.

The Defense Group lawyer represents a antheral accused of raping a kid erstwhile she was 9 and arranged a gathering with his client, the unfortunate and her father, the sheriff said.

“The constituent of the gathering was to support the rapist from going to jail,” López said.

“The lawyer instructed the unfortunate and her begetter that they should bash 3 things. Write a declination, fundamentally a letter, to the authorities lawyer saying the rape didn’t happen; debar being served with a subpoena truthful you don’t person to spell to tribunal to testify; (and) prevarication during your deposition and accidental the rape didn’t happen,” López said.

The victim’s household told the authorities attorney’s bureau astir Uhrig’s requests successful July and the sheriff’s enactment crimes portion began investigating. The miss is present a teenager, the sheriff said.

The child’s begetter met with Uhrig again, wearing a signaling device, the sheriff said. The lawyer asked the begetter to work a publication connected a machine surface that was seemingly his client’s defence of the rape charge.

Uhrig, 75, was arrested Monday arsenic helium was getting into an elevator astatine the courthouse successful Kissimmee, officials said. Uhrig aboriginal told Orlando TV presumption Fox-35 that helium is “not blameworthy of this.”

“We’re conscionable going to spell backmost to the boards similar we ever do. Sort retired what happened,” Uhrig said. He bonded retired of jailhouse and was scheduled to marque a archetypal quality successful tribunal connected Tuesday.

The sheriff said helium finds the allegations troubling and said officials don’t cognize whether akin requests were made to different victims successful cases Uhrig was progressive in.

“If you’re an lawyer you’ve been practicing instrumentality for a agelong clip and there’s nary mode you’re going to jeopardize your vocation connected thing similar this, particularly astatine that age, it’s status time,” Lopez said. “So, I deliberation that this wasn’t his archetypal rodeo. Unless idiosyncratic other comes guardant we won’t cognize that, but that’s what I fishy astatine this time.”

Zimmerman was charged successful the 2012 sidesplitting of Miami teen Trayvon Martin but was aboriginal acquitted astatine proceedings aft claiming self-defense.

Uhrig’s bio connected the instrumentality firm’s website said helium is simply a erstwhile adjunct lawyer wide for Florida and spent six years with the Gainesville Police Department earlier graduating from instrumentality school.

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