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After Judge Kenneth Lester dismissed George Zimmerman’s request for a new judge earlier this month, Zimmerman’s request has now been granted by an appeals court.

If you recall, earlier this month Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara asserted that the judge and court “departed from its role as an impartial, objective minister of justice” and should therefore be removed from the case after Lester’s July 5 order that set $1 million bail for Zimmerman, and claimed that Zimmerman had “flaunted the system” and practiced “deception upon the court.” 

Our friends at the Orlando Sentinel have now confirmed that Zimmerman has in fact been granted a new judge. The appeals court states that although the appeal was a close call, his request for new judge was “legally sufficient.”

They report,

The Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach today ruled that second-degree murder suspect George Zimmerman should get a new judge.

A three-judge panel of that court concluded that Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. in Sanford went too far when he wrote that Zimmerman is a manipulator and made a veiled threat to hold him in contempt of court in the future.

SOURCE: OS