given up tracking of trayvon martin. they have got the jury has got to believe all those audio statements and the video statements of george zimmerman to believe that he was not the aggressor and that he was surprised and had a reasonable fear of his life. but i will tell you, this was actually i know a lot of people didn t think it was a great closing argument by the prosecution but if you look at it and it dissect it they sort of abandoned the murder in the second they really focused on manslaughter. that s a serious charge here. the jury may want to compromise and give a little bit to the defense and a little bit to the prosecution. that s the defense s big es nightmare. shepard: how much auto could it be that the jurors were promised one thing and in closing arguments they really got another? well, i don t know. i guess i have been there, done that we always sort of promise things in opening statements. we re very ambitious lawyers in prosecution and defense. i think that the
from, either talk to or have written statements or audio statements, the person with the best vantage point would have been the defendant, right? of course. he was there through the entire thing. he was an active participant. right. you would agree if trayvon martin had lived, his vantage point would be important, too? sure. absolutely. the defendant told you in his statement that trayvon martin was straddling him. right? yes, sir. and you understood that from the context of your conversation that trayvon martin was over the defendant s belly button, right. over his waist area. didn t you say previously over his belly button. during our conversation we had in deposition. i was not provided with a transcript.
point. yes, sir. you d agree with me that out of the all the people you heard from, either talked to or had written statements or audio statements, the person with the best vantage point would have been the defendant, right? of course. he was there through the entire thing and he was an active participant. you would agree that if trayvon martin had lived, his vantage point would be important too? sure. absolutely. the defendant told you in his statement that trayvon martin was straddling him, right? yes, sir. and you understood that from the context of your conversation that trayvon martin was over the defendant s belly button, right? he was over his waist area. well, didn t you say previously over his belly button?
and if i put my client on the witness stand, by the way, hated clients on the witness stand, i did as much as i could not to present any defense at all, i thought it was better to attack the prosecution case, but on the occasions i put a defendant on, one i spent hours and hours with, you hear things you never heard before. trials are surprises. it is not that the lawyers are bad on prosecution, they may just have a really bad case. and it may look bad that they re putting all this evidence on audio statements and video that help the defense, but if they don t do it, here is what s going to happen. the defense will be talking about it in closing argument, why was the prosecution hiding audiotapes, hiding video tapes. same reason christopher dard enput that glove on o.j. simpson. if he hadn t, johnny cochran would point at marcia clark and christopher dard en, say they got the glove, why don t they want him to try it on, because they know. then you make the prosecutor
telling him. he didn t take notes on that night. i want to also talk about his account of what happened. he basically says that george zimmerman was walking back to his car, was reaching for his phone to contact 911. that s when he says according to zimmerman that trayvon martin ambushed him, punched him in the face. that s when zimmerman fell to the ground. he said trayvon martin put one hand over zimmerman s mouth, one hand over nose to basically stop him from screaming and that s when he says also trayvon martin was throwing punches and started to reach for that gun. you re finding that the prosecutors and defense attorneys really are looking at exactly what is said in that book and comparing it to statements given through audio statements and video statements by george zimmerman. it s those discrepancies that the prosecutor is trying to point out however subtle. sometimes there s strength in numbers. i don t think the viewers can