CONFIRMED: Zimmerman taken into custody

[Amerigo Vespucci]

MSNBC doesn't know where...they just know he's in custody.

[Fawke Em]

1. Good.

Who else feels like a weight is coming slowly off their shoulders?

[gateley]

2. Me!

[K Gardner]

9. Me three. But it's a long way from over. n/t

[Fawke Em]

11. That's why the weight is slowly coming off - not entirely!

Howdy neighbor, btw!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Let's hope the Special Prosecutor has done her homework

All indications say that she has. In another 20 minutes we'll know the charges.

[Wait Wut]

8. I do.

It's kind of a weird feeling. Like when you're going into surgery. The days leading up to it you're a wreck. But, when you finally lay down on the bed and they start hooking you up, you sigh. It's time.

[ecstatic]

3. That's good news, but I wish I could have seen him do the perp walk

But I'm glad he's been captured.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. If he's in custody, he's on someone's security cameras...

...so it's just a matter of whether they will release the footage.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. This is going to make the staunch Zimmerman defenders very angry

They've been having a bad 24 hours.

[hack89]

12. They are steaming at FR. nt

[Cali_Democrat]

13. hehehehe

I drink their tears. I drink them up

[OhioChick]

7. Good....

With all the time he's had, I thought he would've been in Mexico by now.

[pinboy3niner]

10. In Florida, CNN is now reporting nt

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. He has a new attorney, too:

Updated at 5:51 p.m. ET George Zimmerman has turned himself in to law enforcement and is in custody in Florida, according to CNN legal analyst Mark NeJame.

Zimmerman also has a new attorney, Mark O'Mara, according to NeJame.

NeJame reported that Zimmerman, before he surrendered, was "out of the state of Florida, as I understand it, for his safety."

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/11/prosecutor-to-announce-decision-on-zimmerman/?hpt=hp_t1

[pinboy3niner]

16. "It will be a trial on television"

--Jeffrey Toobin, CNN legal analyst

Toobin noted that Florida's 'sunshine law' guarantees government transparency, and assures that almost all trials in the state are televised.

If there is no guilty plea/plea bargain, everyone will be able to watch the trial on TV.

[coeur_de_lion]

15. Second degree murder n/t