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An Orlando federal grand jury is in session today but there was no indication this morning that it's hearing evidence in the George Zimmerman civil rights case.

A Department of Justice civil rights attorney from Washington, D.C., Mark Blumberg, subpoenaed at least one person to appear at 9 a.m. today in that case: Frank Taaffe, Zimmerman's former neighbor and until a few months ago, his defender.

But Taaffe did not appear in the public portions of the Orlando federal courts building this morning, and he did not exit the hallway used by the grand jury when it took a break about 11:30 a.m.

Neither did anyone else known to have ties to Zimmerman or Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old black teenager he killed Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford.

It's not clear if other witnesses were subpoenaed, but employees who work in the federal courthouse were abuzz today about the possibility that Zimmerman might be in the building.

He was not, he confirmed in a brief phone call this afternoon.

Blumberg last week would not discuss the case or the grand jury session. Neither would FBI Special Agent John Weyrauch, whose name appears on the subpoena and is one of the agents who's been part of the 2 1/2 year investigation.

Dena Iverson, a spokeswoman for the civil rights division of the Department of Justice, was not immediately available for comment.

Last year, Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder by a Seminole County jury.

Long before that in March 2012 - the U.S. Department of Justice launched its own investigation, hoping to determine whether Zimmerman killed Trayvon because he was black.

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Federal grand jury meets in Orlando; no sign of Zimmerman witnesses