An information technology specialist who say he was fired for exposing information that he said Florida prosecutors attempted to withhold from George Zimmerman‘s defense attorneys will file a lawsuit against his former employers.

Ben Kruidbos testifies at a June hearing about evidence in the George Zimmerman trial.

Ben Kruidbos was fired after testifying at a June 6 hearing that photos and text messages from Trayvon Martin‘s cell phone were not turned over to the defense, as required by law. Kruidbos’ attorney Wesley White told Reuters news agency that he will be filing a whistleblower lawsuit against the office of Angela Corey and Bernie de la Rionda, who were appointed to prosecute the case against Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot Martin in February 2012. After a trial that garnered nationwide attention, a Seminole County jury on Saturday found Zimmerman not guilty of murder.

In notifying Kruidbos of his termination last week, a spokeswoman for the state’s attorney’s office, Cheryl Peek, excoriated him for what she called his “deliberate, willful and unscrupulous actions.” At the June 6 hearing, Kruidbos testified that he believed that prosecutors had not shared with Zimmerman’s defense the full contents of information extracted by a forensic search of Martin’s cell phone, including photographs of marijuana and a semi-automatic handgun. Ultimately, the photos and text messages were ruled inadmissible in the trial by Judge Debra Nelson.

Corey’s handling of the prosecution has been widely criticized, both by supporters of Martin — who blame her for failing to win a conviction of Zimmerman — and also by supporters of Zimmerman, who say he never should have been charged with murder in the shooting incident that the jury ultimately decided was self-defense.

Florida prosecutor Angela Corey speaks at a post-trial press conference Saturday.

Kruidbos’s lawyer slammed Corey for comments she made after Zimmerman was acquitted.

“You have assailed and undermined both the right to trial by jury and the finality and dignity associated with a jury verdict,” White said in a letter published at The Conservative Treehouse blog. “For you to label George Zimmerman, an acquitted defendant, as a ‘murderer’ at this juncture is reprehensible and irresponsible, can only breed contempt for our system of justice and the rule of law, and may very well lead to civil unrest.”

READ MORE:

• Chris Francescani, Reuters: Exclusive: Fired employee to file lawsuit against Zimmerman prosecutors
• Ian Tuttle, National Review: Angela Corey’s Checkered Past 
• Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times: Florida staffer fired over evidence in Zimmerman case
• William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection: Alan Dershowitz vs. Angela Corey over misleading Affidavit of Probable Cause