Lester, the zimmerman molester, and the DA are playing a tag team bout with Zimmerman from the get go. The DA grossly overcharged the case and Lester is doing everything he can do to extract some kind of plea from him.
I think if MOM was not being watched like he is, he would have gone along the path of least resistence. Someone put a firecracker on his seat after his squishy and submissive performance at the bail hearing. Probably George’s dad.