hours and hours with the client, 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
this i don t know why the prosecution put on this evidence today. maybe that s the best evidence that they have. they are sort of stuck with it or maybe they have something more powerful coming down or maybe, you know, you can t make up evidence. but if that s the best the prosecution has, you know, it s in deep trouble it doesn t mean that the jury won t convict someone i m telling you that sitting in that courtroom we all sort of sit around like saying that s it. then they put all the two audio statements and video statement on by george zimmerman. statements that have very powerful for the defense and essentially allowing george zimmerman to testify by putting this evidence before the jury in george zimmerman s own words. george zimmerman never have to take the witness stand. never going to be cross-examined if he doesn t take the witness stand. it s a big day for the defense. lots can happen in a trial and a lot can change. shepard: certainly it would be completely unfair to judg
explode. reporter: gornl zeorge zimme walk investigators through the incident less than 24 hours after shooting and killing trayvon martin. and it s this video along with two audio statements and a written statement he gave police that could become critical new evidence in the case. if judge nelson allows it in court, the jury could examine zimmerman s demeanor and possible inconsistencies in his statements. prosecutors are also expected to call on more pivotal witnesses including the lead investigators from the sanford police department who found that george zimmerman acted in self-defense. jurors ended the week on day five hearing from the only eyewitness to the struggle between zimmerman and martin. john good told police he saw two people on the ground, the person on top was wearing darker clothes. and the man underneath he says seemed to have a lighter
correct? he did in the statement. in that written statement. in the prior statements he did not, the prior audio statements he didn t refer to him as a suspect? no, he did not refer to him as a suspect in anything but this. all right. when police officers are talking about a person they suspect of doing committing a crime do they refer to them as suspect? yes, we do if we suspect them of a crime. they re a suspect. okay. now i don t know if it would be a good time to take a recess. we ll recess for lunch. i m going to remind you that during the lunchtime you re not to have any discussions amongst yourself or anybody about the case. you re not to read or listen to any television, radio rors about the case. not to use any type of electronic device about the case, people, places things or
the judge is expected to rule whether to allow statements made by zimmerman in the hours after he shot trayvon martin. it gives the prosecution a chance to use zimmerman s own wores against him. george howell in sanford, florida with the latest. reporter: good more thaning. so we have been able to hear george zimmerman in the 911 audiotapes. now the jury could get a chance to see him in a video reenactment walk through the events of the day letting attorneys analyze his every word. all i could think about is when he was hitting my head, it felt like my head was going to explode. reporter: it s george zimmerman in his own words walking investigators through the incident less than 24 hours after shooting and killing trayvon martin. and it s this video along with two audio statements and a written statement he gave police that could become critical new evidence in the case.