(CNN) -- The attorney for George Zimmerman says he is confident his motion to have a Florida judge removed from his client's case will be granted. "I think she's going to go ahead and grant it and move the case on to another judge," Mark O'Mara, the lawyer, said Monday night. Zimmerman's defense team formally requested Monday that Seminole Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler, the Florida judge assigned to their client's case, be removed after she revealed her husband works with a CNN legal analyst. O'Mara's office filed paperwork Monday asking that Recksiedler not preside over second-degree murder proceedings involving Zimmerman and the motion to "disqualify" the trial judge "will be ruled on in the appropriate manner," a court official said.
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The judge in the case is connected to a CNN analyst
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Mark O'Mara describes his client, George Zimmerman, as "frightened"
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Media outlets are asking that documents in the case be unsealed
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