He certainly has in my opinion. Here is a link to his order revoking bond
Here are the facts:
Shellie Zimmerman offered to get the brother-in-law on the phone to discuss the amount in the PayPal Account, but the prosecution deceptively edited her testimony in its application to revoke bond.
At the April 27th hearing disclosing the approximate size of the PayPal account, Judge Lester claimed to not know if the PayPal account was usable for bail. How could GZ know if it was available if Lester didn't??
At the bail revocation hearing on June 1, Lester refused O'Mara's request to postpone the hearing, telling O'Mara he could defend the motion "on the spur of the moment, you can do this on the fly" (at about 23 minutes into the clip).
At the original bail hearing, Judge Lester dismissed the importance of George's run in with the plain clothes officer in the bar, but now he seems to think it is very important.
At the original bail hearing, Judge Lester dismissed the importance of the mutual restraining orders between George and a former girlfriend, but now seems to think it is important.
At the bond revocation hearing on June 1, Lester also dismissed concerns about the state's problem with the 2nd passport (at about the 45 minute mark), and does mention it in his revocation of bond ruling, but does not appear to give it much weight for the bail revocation hearing.
Lester's ruling said that George lacks respect for the law for all those factors, especially for the failure to disclose the PayPal account total, which he did not give GZ any chance to explain. A travesty of justice (in my never to be humble opinion).
He's changed his position too, because on April 27th, knowing the amount was $200,000, and facing a state motion to revoke bond, he rejected the motion. Now he says the amount might have mattered.
He also states, without providing any support, that the state's murder case is strong, and by implication, that Zimmerman's self defense claim is weak.
Lester, channeling Cartman - respect my authoritah!
COMES NOW the Court and sets the above-styled cause for a bond hearing been agreed to by the parties. Said bond hearing shall be held on ...Lester signed it. I would have sent it back to the clerk with instructions. That's embarrassing shit, right there.
Great info. Thanks.
I was under the impression that by that time the trust has been opened. Clearly that would change the availability of those funds. But now I'm wondering if what is being said is that the Paypal account was perhaps not under George's control at all. It may have been been the brothers account.
There's still the issue of the funds supposedly having been already transfered to Credit Union account prior to the bail hearing. That's the stinker.
Now all of that is troubling and makes me wonder about Judge Lester’s credibility.