George Zimmerman, who's charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was the owner of an old Myspace page featuring slurs against Mexicans, his lawyer has confirmed to the Miami Herald.

Posting under the pseudonym "Joe G,"Zimmerman wrote about "mexicans walkin on the side of the street, soft a-- wanna be thugs messin with peoples cars when they aint around" and "gettin knifes pulled on you by every mexican you run into!" 

Read the full story at The Miami Herald

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The discovery adds another social media element to a case that came to national attention largely through Twitter and Facebook. After initially having ordered Zimmerman to scrub his social media history, his lawyer, Mark O'Mara, has embraced a controversial social media strategy to keep the defense side of the case in the spotlight, complete with its own website.

Msnbc.com's Suzanne Choney has examined the ramifications of attorneys using social media to make their cases in public:

The American Bar Association's standards of professional conduct does not deal with social media, a spokesman for the ABA told msnbc.com, but "it's certainly going to be on everyone's radar screen" now.

Stephen A. Saltzburg, a member of the ABA's governing body, the House of Delegates, and former chairman of the ABA's criminal justice section, said "generally speaking, lawyers are not supposed to be making public statements that could compromise a fair trial." 

Whether the Zimmerman social media effort will do that would be up to a judge, Saltzburg said.

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ATLANTA -- A Georgia law enforcement officer is under investigation for sharing way too much online – racy photos posted on social network sites.

“I didn’t think the pictures were going to be posted like that,” Walton County Sheriff's Deputy Thaddeus Lloyd told The Atlanta-Constitution. “Someone got a hold of it.”

According to the Journal-Constitution, one photograph of Lloyd, pictured in uniform next to a patrol cruiser with his hands on the buttocks of a naked woman, somehow made its way onto Myspace and Facebook.

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Lloyd told the newspaper that the picture was taken 11 years ago while he was working for another city agency, not the Sheriff's Office.

The state Peace Officer Standards and Training Council is investigating Lloyd, according to the newspaper.

Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman described Lloyd as a good deputy, adding that it was a shame that one picture might cost Lloyd his career.

“I hate all this for that deputy,” Chapman told the Journal-Constitution. “But you’ve got to live by what you do.”

Lloyd isn’t the first officer to come under scrutiny.

A former University of West Georgia officer Justin Rogers was photographed urinating on a department patrol car after he was hired elsewhere, the Journal-Constitution reported. The officer voluntarily surrendered his certification in 2008.

Cops can also get in trouble for comments.

In 2011, Albuquerque officer Trey Economidy was disciplined for listing his job title on his Facebook page as "human waste disposal" for Albuquerque.

Since the post, the New Mexico police department created a social media policy for its officers, requiring the entire department to sign a code of conduct policy on social media use.

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