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Two days later, Zimmerman wrote the judge a letter asking to withdraw his plea, saying he didn’t use force with either of his accusers. Frye held a hearing on the request June 24, 2009, and denied the motion.
About two months later, the judge sentenced Zimmerman to 20 years in prison, fined him $35,000 and labeled him a sex offender.
But the appeals court said that Zimmerman “presented a reasonable and legitimate basis supporting the withdrawal… such that the trial court unfairly and unjustly” denied the request.
According to the appeals judges, Zimmerman’s attorney “admitted to pressuring and coercing defendant into taking the plea” and testified “he regretted entering the plea and believed that the case should have been taken to trial.”
Zimmerman told police that he had trolled the West Side for prostitutes since 2001 and had sex with more than 800 of them.

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