Just as George Zimmermans attorney pushes the envelope of accepted legal practices by launching a social media operation for his client, another site has popped up that belonged to the controversial former neighborhood watch volunteer who now faces a murder charge. 
 
 This one is a 7-year old Myspace page called only to be king again that makes disparaging comments about Mexicans. The Web page, which his attorney confirmed Tuesday is legitimate, makes reference to 2005 criminal cases and a brush in court with a woman who Zimmerman called his ex-hoe. 
 
 There are several photos of Zimmerman on the page, and in one of them he appears to be wearing the same orange polo shirt that he donned in his 2005 police mug shot. Zimmerman used the name Joe G. on the site, and posted a biography that mentions he grew up in Manassas, Va., had recently opened an insurance business and missed all his friends. 
 
 Last month, a Zimmerman Myspace page under the username datniggytb was taken down. 
 
 The Joe G page includes a missive written in street slang. 
 
 I dont miss driving around scared to hit mexicans walkin on the side of the street, soft ass wanna be thugs messin with peoples cars when they aint around (what are you provin, that you can dent a car when no ones watchin) dont make you a man in my book, the 2005 Myspace page said. Workin 96 hours to get a decent pay check, gettin knifes pulled on you by every mexican you run into! 
 
 Another line suggested his friends went to jail and did not rat him out. They do a year and dont ever open thier [sic] mouth to get my ass pinched. 
 
 The pictures posted on the page including several with an ethnically diverse group of friends. The blog section boasts about having two felonies knocked down to misdemeanors and describes a court battle with an ex-girlfriend. Zimmerman faced two felonies in 2005 for obstructing justice and battery on a law enforcement officer, but the cases were reduced to misdemeanor simple battery, and he was left with no criminal conviction on his record. 
 
 Zimmermans attorney, Mark OMara, confirmed the page was his clients, and that it was abandoned in 2005. 
 
 The site was the latest discovery in an ongoing social media battle in the Zimmerman case. The Feb. 26 shooting of Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin received its first groundswell of attention on social media platforms, which were later used to portray the victim in a negative light. Now the defense is embracing Twitter, Facebook and a blog to provide forums for discussion  and to raise money. 
 
 Trayvon Martins family took to the Web to raise funds and to gather petitions to demand criminal charges against Zimmerman. His killers lawyer uses the medium to raise funds, post articles and announcements, and dispel rumors. 
 
 We are not surprised to discover that our decision is controversial, OMara posted on his site, gzlegalcase.com. Some have called it unethical, and some have called it brilliant; however, we believe much of the controversy is about the medium, not the message. 
 
 Last week, OMara said he ordered his client to wipe his Internet presence clean. Zimmerman took down his website, a Twitter account and any other social media accounts. Any remaining, OMara said, were fakes. 
 
 But once the defense attorney realized how much money Zimmerman had raised on the Web, he quickly set up a more-polished website with a link to a professionally administered legal defense fund. OMara said he had agreed to take the case for free, but reconsidered once he learned he could be paid using web donations. 
 
 OMara hired Shawn Vincent of Orlandos Digital Marketing Revolution to manage a Facebook page as well. Within hours of the page going up, hundreds of people had posted comments both for and against the defendant, and a few people with fake user names shared harsh opinions of Trayvon Martins family. One commenter on OMaras Facebook page said Trayvons mother was mooching off white peoples money. 
 
 Within 24 hours, the site was changed so that users must submit comments for review before they are posted. Insults were deleted. About 1,800 people have liked the page so far. 
 
 Jayne Navarre, a South Florida consultant who devises social media strategies for lawyers, said OMaras use of social media will almost certainly taint a jury pool and compromise Zimmermans shot at a fair trial. She said OMara also may be violating American Bar Association rules that prohibit a lawyer from helping third parties make prohibited extrajudicial comments. 
 
 While use of social media has risen exponentially in the legal field, what we have not seen is a criminal-defense attorney host social media channels on behalf of their client, Navarre said. I would not be surprised to learn that members of the Bar are shocked and even disgusted. 
 
 Under American Bar Association rules, a lawyer can speak publicly on a case as long as it does not prejudice a potential jury. The association is revamping its rules to address social media, she said. 
 
 Lawyers usually use social media to advertise, educate, network or recruit employees, she said. Some lawyers and judges have been sanctioned for inappropriate use of social media. 
 
 Until now, Navarre said, the most unusual case of a law firm using social media was in 2010, when the Massachusetts-based class action firm Sokolove Law Inc. launched the first known niche social networking site devoted to engaging potential and current class members in online discussions about the birth control pill YAZ. But the site was considered advertising and was deemed in compliance with ABA rules, she said. 
 
 The tactic certainly was cutting edge, and I dont think the Bar saw any writing on the wall, Navarre said. I find in my social media consulting practice that many lawyers are still dragging their feet for various reasons . . . Others find it unprofessional, period. ||||| MIAMI — A wide-ranging investigation of George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin , found a man not prone to violence or prejudice and who moved easily between racial and ethnic groups — a “decent guy,” “a good human being.” The assessments, made public on Thursday, came from interviews with friends, co-workers and neighbors who were interviewed by the F.B.I. and state and local law-enforcement authorities. They are part of a pretrial cache of documents in the case that have been released periodically by Angela B. Corey, the special prosecutor. The F.B.I. was brought in to conduct a federal civil rights investigation, which is focused on whether there was racial bias involved in the shooting and in the handling of the case. 
 
 Documents released previously focused on the Feb. 26 shooting, the subsequent police investigation and Mr. Zimmerman’s statements to the police. The latest trove of reports and tape recordings contained little fresh information about the shape of the case, but provided instead a fuller portrait of the defendant. 
 
 His bosses and co-workers repeatedly described Mr. Zimmerman, 28, who speaks English and Spanish, as helpful and reasonable. 
 
 After someone broke the lock on his chair — it was an orthopedic chair that he kept at work — and disturbed his desk, Mr. Zimmerman handled the situation calmly, reporting the incident to his superiors to resolve the problem and get reimbursement for the lock, interviews showed. 
 
 But Mr. Zimmerman did show flashes of temper. During an argument with his ex-fiancée, a stylist he met at Supercuts in 2001, he slapped her in the mouth because she was chewing gum. As the two were breaking up, they pushed each other forcefully, and he kicked her dog in the stomach, she said. The dog bit him. The woman complained that Mr. Zimmerman was overly possessive and wanted her to wear conservative clothes. Mr. Zimmerman attended counseling sessions before the relationship failed. 
 
 The woman said that after the two would argue, Mr. Zimmerman would sometimes talk about killing himself by driving into a lake or taking pills. She viewed it as a ploy for sympathy. 
 
 But she also remarked that while Mr. Zimmerman was aggressive with her, she never saw him behave that way with others. He never “exhibited any biases or prejudices against anyone and did not use racial epithets of any kind,” she told the F. B.I. An exception is a MySpace page Mr. Zimmerman once kept where he went on a rant about the Mexicans in his old Virginia neighborhood, saying they would mess with cars and pull knives. 
 
 Asked about the Martin case, the ex-fiancée said she was taken aback to find out Mr. Zimmerman was the shooter. 
 
 Mr. Zimmerman was the last person she would expect “to be involved in anything like that,” the woman told investigators. “Zimmerman was not the type of person to place himself in a physical confrontation. Zimmerman wanted to be a successful person,” she added. Like almost all of those interviewed, the woman’s name was not made public. 
 
 The documents also reveal that Mr. Zimmerman had a difficult relationship with his mother. Once, after his ex-fiancée argued with his mother, Mr. Zimmerman turned off his mother’s electricity and left the house. 
 
 One friend, Mr. Zimmerman’s regular shooting partner, said that Mr. Zimmerman told him that his mother, Gladys, who is Peruvian, “was very strict and dominant,” the friend told investigators. “His mother was known to hit him all the time when Zimmerman was growing up,” the friend added 
 
 His father, a retired magistrate judge, “did not stick up for the kids,” the friend said. Until he was arrested, George Zimmerman had been estranged from most of his family. 
 
 The documents also included witness statements, the accounts of Sanford police officers involved in the case and police reports documenting a string of burglaries and larcenies in the neighborhood. 
 
 These show that Mr. Zimmerman was extremely concerned about the burglaries; he called the police several times to report suspicious people walking around Retreat at Twin Lakes, his gated community. Last year he formed a neighborhood watch program, which pleased residents. A manager there said no complaints were lodged against Mr. Zimmerman, who patrolled several times a week in his car, sometimes with the headlights off. 
 
 Chris Serino of the Sanford Police Department, the lead investigator in the case, told the F.B.I. that he did not think Mr. Zimmerman had shot Mr. Martin, who was a guest at the complex, because he was black. 
 
 Instead, he said, Mr. Zimmerman’s actions were based on Mr. Martin’s “attire, the total circumstances of the encounter and the previous burglary suspects in the community.” He said that Mr. Zimmerman’s version of events felt “scripted” to him. Still, Mr. Serino said that despite pressure from colleagues to bring charges, he felt the evidence was lacking at the time. 
 
 But Mr. Serino stressed that the shooting was “ultimately avoidable.” Mr. Zimmerman should have stayed in his car or identified himself to Mr. Martin. But Mr. Zimmerman, who at one point wanted to be a police officer, “had already reached a faulty conclusion as to Martin’s purpose for being in the neighborhood.” 
 
 Mr. Zimmerman was “overzealous” and had “a little hero complex,” Mr. Serino said. 
 
 After the shooting and the national furor it caused, Mr. Zimmerman grew fearful and expressed interest in purchasing a second gun, the documents show. He had a concealed weapons license and the police recovered three ammunition magazines in his car the night of the shooting. 
 
 It is clear from the documents that Mr. Zimmerman had high standards for his neighborhood. He once complained to a complex manager about the landscaping behind his home. He also called the police nonemergency line to report suspicious people several times. Once he called to say that too many children were playing in the streets of his neighborhood at dusk and risked being injured. 
 
 After forming the neighborhood watch program, he wrote a laudatory letter to the former Sanford Police chief, Bill Lee, praising the coordinator for the program and acknowledging that he did not initially have the best impression of the force. 
 
 “I have high hopes for, and restored faith in your administration and the Sanford Police Department in its entirety,” he wrote. ||||| In an unusually low-key turn to a high-profile case, George Zimmerman was released without incident from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. 
 
 FILE - In this April 20, 2012 file photo, George Zimmerman appears before Circuit Judge Kenneth R. Lester Jr. during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman's attorney was still working Sunday to secure... (Associated Press) 
 
 George Zimmerman, left, walks out of the intake building at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility with an unidentified man on Sunday, April 22, 2012, in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman posted bail on a $150,000... (Associated Press) 
 
 George Zimmerman, left, walks out of the intake building at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility with an unidentified man on Sunday, April 22, 2012, in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman posted bail on a $150,000... (Associated Press) 
 
 The neighborhood watch volunteer was wearing a brown jacket and blue jeans and carrying a paper bag around midnight Sunday. He walked out following another man and didn't look over at photographers gathered outside. He then followed the man into a white BMW vehicle and drove away. 
 
 Moments before, two Seminole County sheriff's vehicles blocked access to the intake building parking lot where Zimmerman was being released. Zimmerman emerged after two public information officers confirmed the credentials of the photographers outside. 
 
 No questions were shouted at Zimmerman, and he gave no statement. 
 
 His ultimate destination is being kept secret for his safety and it could be outside Florida. 
 
 As with the July 2011 release of Casey Anthony, the Florida woman acquitted of murder in the death of her daughter, Zimmerman was released around midnight. But the similarities end there. Anthony was quickly whisked away by deputy sheriffs armed with semi-automatic rifles as angry protesters jeered her. While news helicopters briefly tracked her SUV through Orlando before she slipped from public view, there was no such pursuit of Zimmerman, who will have to return for trial. 
 
 Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester said at a hearing Friday that Zimmerman cannot have any guns and must observe a 7 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. Zimmerman also surrendered his passport. 
 
 Zimmerman had to put up 10 percent, or $15,000, to make bail. His father had indicated he might take out a second mortgage. 
 
 Zimmerman worked at a mortgage risk-management company at the time of the shooting and his wife is in nursing school. A website was set up to collect donations for Zimmerman's defense fund. It is unclear how much has been raised. 
 
 Bail is not unheard of in second-degree murder cases, and legal experts had predicted it would be granted for Zimmerman because of his ties to the community, because he turned himself in after he was charged last week, and because he has never been convicted of a serious crime. 
 
 Prosecutors had asked for $1 million bail, citing two previous scrapes Zimmerman had with the law, neither of which resulted in charges. In 2005, he had to take anger management courses after he was accused of attacking an undercover officer who was trying to arrest Zimmerman's friend. In another incident, a girlfriend accused him of attacking her. 
 
 Zimmerman, 28, fatally shot Martin, 17, Feb. 26 inside the gated community where Zimmerman lived during an altercation. Martin was unarmed and was walking back to the home of his father's fianc??e when Zimmerman saw him, called 911 and began following him. A fight broke out _ investigators say it is unknown who started it. 
 
 Zimmerman says Martin, who was visiting from Miami, attacked him. Zimmerman says he shot Martin in self-defense, citing Florida's "stand your ground" law, which gives broad legal protection to anyone who says they used deadly force because they feared death or great bodily harm. 
 
 Zimmerman was not charged for over six weeks, sparking national protests led by Martin's parents, civil rights groups and the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Martin was black; Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is from Peru. 
 
 Earlier Sunday, Zimmerman's attorney was working to secure the money for bail and a safe place for Zimmerman to stay. But residents in Sanford, where Martin was killed, didn't expect a ruckus once Zimmerman was released. 
 
 City commissioners said they hadn't received calls from nervous residents. Protesters didn't show up outside the jail. And talk at one local coffee shop seldom focused on the case. 
 
 "It's just kind of a non-issue now," said Michele Church, a server at Mel's Family Diner. "That's pretty much all anybody in Sanford wanted, was an arrest, so it could be sorted out in the court system." 
 
 On Friday, a Florida judge agreed to let Zimmerman out on $150,000 bail. Defense attorney Mark O'Mara has said there are several options for where Zimmerman should go, but would not disclose any of them. Lester on Friday indicated Zimmerman would be allowed to leave the state if arrangements with law enforcement could be made for him to be monitored. He will be fitted with an electronic device. 
 
 About a half-dozen photographers and cameramen camped outside the Sanford jail Sunday, focused on the door marked "Bonds Rooms," where other people who had been arrested and released on bail exited. Zimmerman had entered the jail about a week earlier after more than a month of nationwide protests calling for his arrest. 
 
 "The mood in Sanford has calmed down tremendously," said Sanford Commissioner Patty Mahany, whose district includes the neighborhood where Martin was killed. "I think now that people are able to see the justice system taking place, even though they understand it's going to be quite slow, people are willing to just remain calm and really we're all getting back to our daily routines." 
 
 A spokeswoman for the Seminole County Sheriff's Office declined to release any information about whether they were increasing patrols or security. 
 
 Defense attorneys for other high-profile clients who awaited trial on bail have said Zimmerman should leave Florida and refrain from going out in public. Sanford residents say they aren't expecting to see him around the neighborhood anytime soon. 
 
 "They've already said they're going to move him to a safe place," Church said. "Everyone has calmed down. That's all anyone in Sanford wanted, an arrest." 
 
 Meanwhile, Martin's parents published a "Card of Thanks" in The Miami Herald obituary page Sunday. The note says Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin express their appreciation for all the public's support since their son's death. The notice includes a photograph of Trayvon Martin dressed in a hooded sweatshirt, similar to one he was wearing the evening he was killed. 
 
 "Words will never express how your love, support and prayers lifted our spirits and continue to give us the strength to march on," the letter says. 
 
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 Associated Press photographer Brian Blanco in Sanford, Florida, contributed to this report.
– George Zimmerman now has a legal site, a defense-minded Twitter feed, and a 7-year-old MySpace page that's causing some fresh trouble. The Miami Herald unearthed the page, which has been confirmed as authentic by his lawyer, and reports on the less seemly details contained within. Most notably: not-so-nice comments about Mexicans. Sample lines: "I dont miss driving around scared to hit mexicans walkin on the side of the street, soft ass wanna be thugs messin with peoples cars when they aint around (what are you provin, that you can dent a car when no ones watchin)." "Workin 96 hours to get a decent pay check, gettin knifes pulled on you by every mexican you run into!" The page, which was abandoned in 2005, also talks about Zimmerman's "ex-hoe," references jailed friends, brags about getting two felonies reduced to misdemeanors, and mentions that he misses his friends in his hometown of Manassas, Va. The Herald notes that he also posted several photos, including one in which he appears to be wearing the infamous orange polo from his 2005 mugshot.