During a court hearing Tuesday, George Zimmerman may find out whether he can leave Seminole County and take off his GPS monitor.

On Friday, his lawyers filed motions asking a judge to let him leave the county. They said he needs to meet with legal experts and witnesses.

His attorneys said it's for his own safety because Zimmerman has been threatened in the past.

“Mr. Zimmerman is still at great risk of serious bodily harm, at great risk in his community, and has had to continue to live in seclusion and hiding. An increase in antagonism and threats towards him which is cause for additional concern for his safety and security,” wrote Mark O’Mara, Zimmerman’s defense attorney.

A hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday at 9 a.m.

Trayvon Martin memorial moves forward

Plans for a new Trayvon Martin memorial are moving forward after Sanford city leaders released items from an original memorial made shortly after the 17-year-old was shot to death last February.

For weeks this summer, it seemed just as fast as memorials for Trayvon Martin would go up, they would come down.

The original memorial was built at the Retreat at Twin Lakes subdivision, where the 17-year-old was shot by George Zimmerman. He says he shot Martin in self-defense.

People living in the subdivision complained the memorial was making it unsafe for children to walk to school, and was allowing the high-profile case to define their neighborhood.

So the city of Sanford pulled it, and those items have been locked up inside a city museum ever since.

Francis Oliver is overseeing a new, permanent memorial for Trayvon Martin in Sanford’s historic Goldsboro neighborhood.

“Already we’ve had people coming, we’ve had people to donate different artifacts to the memorial,” said Oliver, who is the curator of the Goldsboro Museum.

She wants to make sure pieces of the original memorial are part of the new one, but she also says this memorial will be different.

“People can come and not be harassed and called names because they are viewing the memorial,” Oliver said.

Oliver says the memorial will reflect how this case is quickly changing the area’s history.

“If the Stand your Ground law is amended, revised or changed, that will be because of Trayvon, and that will be a history-making situation, and the Goldsboro Museum and Goldsboro Welcome Center will be a part and keep up with the Trayvon case,” Oliver said.