The judge in the Trayvon Martin murder case has pressed for information about the $200,000 raised for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of killing the unarmed black teenager.
The judge, Kenneth Lester, set bail at $150,000 at an April 20 bond hearing after Zimmerman's family testified he was unemployed and that they had little money for his defense.
Zimmerman shot Martin, 17, on February 26 as he crossed a gated community in the central Florida town of Sanford on his way home from buying sweets at a local shop.
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The teenager's family said they were devastated when Zimmerman walked free on bail shortly after midnight on April 23.
The case has attracted national attention, including protests led by civil rights leaders, because police initially accepted Zimmerman's claim that he shot Martin in self-defense. They refused to arrest him until a special prosecutor finally brought second degree murder charges against him April 11.
Zimmerman's lawyer, Mark O'Mara, disclosed late Thursday in a CNN interview that a website set up by the family had pulled in $204,000 in donations before the bond hearing.
But on Friday, he told Lester he did not know at the time of the bond hearing that his client's family had already raised $204,000.
"His family did not disclose this information before the hearing on April 20th," he said.
O'Mara also said he did not want to reveal the names of the donors in open court and asked Lester to review them in private "to avoid publicly exposing contributors to ridicule and danger."
Lester said he was not going to make "a snap decision."
"I want to know more information ... before deciding whether to revoke or raise his bond," he said.
Lester, meanwhile, rejected a prosecution request for a gag order on O'Mara for talking to the media. Instead, the judge asked both attorneys to lower the tone of their public comments.
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for May 8 but Zimmerman is not expected to attend as his lawyer has entered a written plea of not guilty.
