Raw video: George Zimmerman is released from the Seminole County Jail in Florida after making bail on Friday.
By NBC News and msnbc.com staff
Updated at 318 p.m. ET: SANFORD, Fla. -- George Zimmerman was released from the Seminole County Jail at 2:49 p.m ET Friday after posting $1 million bond in the Trayvon Martin case.
Zimmerman, 28, was wearing a gray suit as he stepped into an SUV and was driven off, NBC News reported.?Don West, one of Zimmerman's attorneys, described his client's mood as "buoyant."
He was fitted with an electronic monitoring device before his release. Zimmerman is required to stay in Seminole County, according to a statement by the Seminole County Sheriff's Department.
On Thursday, Seminole County Circuit Court Judge Kenneth R. Lester, Jr. ordered Zimmerman's bond raised to $1 million in light of revelations Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie Zimmerman, had misled the court about their finances during an April 20 bond hearing.
Zimmerman is?charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, 17, inside a gated community in Sanford.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, pleaded not guilty and told police he acted in self-defense after Martin punched him and knocked his head against the pavement.
"He's very happy to be out," West said, the AP reported. "Certainly it's been a sobering experience being in that kind of environment."
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