socks. okay and is he walking? yes. okay. and so is he near the the back entrance to the neighborhood. jenna: phil keating is live outside the courthouse with the latest. phil. reporter: it s more to note the jury was not inside the courtroom to listen to these contentious arguments, and judge debra nelson is going to mull over and establish case law tonight at home and likely rule on this issue in the morning. it deals with relevance, as well as george zimmerman s state of mind. this argument stopped court early yesterday afternoon and it delayed today s start. however the jury back in the courtroom right now and you can see they are having a bench conference currently right now. wendy dorvil on the stand, stanford pd catch coordinator that testified that all neighborhood watch participants are instructed not to follow people or take matters into their own hands. prosecutors want to show
get off and quit this case in just a matter of days. once again, motion denied by this judge. on with the show. what will the show entail at this point? will jodi arias herself get up and speak and beg for her life? will jodi arias get up and beg for her death. will jodi arias say nothing at all? joining me now is ted rowlands who has been covering this case gavel to gavel. ted this is just yet another remarkable set of circumstances in a remarkable death penalty case. where do they stand right now? where are the arguments? where are the lawyers? reporter: well, it is just happening very fast. right now they re at the bench, bench conference. it looks like they ll adjourn for the day and we don t know the answer, is jodi arias, tomorrow, going to address this jury before each side gets to close. what happened today is the defense got up in front of the judge and said, listen, we can t have this witness on because she s intimidated. she s intimidated because of
went to the accused. here to explain criminal defense attorney dwayne cates, he was in the courtroom yesterday. you think the prosecution didn t exactly get off on the right foot here, dwayne? i don t, jon and i ll tell you y. in the very beginning juan martinez came out just firing an was really being aggressive, but he was being aggressive over a point that didn t matter. he was being aggressive over a point that jodi arias called her sister dumb. i mean that is how we opened up, and that just didn t play. and then at one point jodi arias basically looked at him and said, i can t remember because you re yelling at me, just like travis did. and that was a moment to behold. jon: you think that that builds sympathy on the part of the jury for her? i mean it does. i mean here is what happened. she said that line, and the attorneys immediately went to a bench conference with the judge. when the bench conference was
courtroom. what was the reaction. how did the actual waiving notification take place? all the folks walked in the courtroom, the judge took the bench and mr. sandusky s lawyer asked for a bench conference. the lawyers for the commonwealth. he went up to the bench and after that the judge announced that he indeed waived the preliminary hearing. reporter: can you imagine any reason that they would waive it this morning? they have had weeks and weeks to have that opportunity. what happened between last night and this morning? the only thing i can think of he wanted to test the resolve of the victims and see if they were going to show up and testify. that makes very little sense but you know, a lot of what has happened doesn t make any sense either so. reporter: you represent victim number six. is he prepared to testify. he was prepared to testify. he was notified that he would be testifying about 1:00 today. reporter: one of the things jerry sandusky s attorney told me believe
martha: phil, so we ll be watching for that. also we understand that her mother was back on the stand as well. what can you tell us about that? reporter: cindy anthony is the first witness called today. she is on the stand, as we speak. the jury still in the room. they re having a bench conference right now because the immediate line of questioning by jose baez is about the testimony yesterday by the ex-fiance of casey anthony that was proffered, the judge was not in the room, but he says when he was dating and engaged to casey she told him about two instances about her brother lee sneaking into her bedroom when she slept, groping her on one occasion. baez asked anthony did you know about these incidents with your son and your daughter in her bedroom while she slept, and there were two objections by the prosecution team, cindy anthony denied knowing anything about such allegations and then immediately, we re now in a bench conference to discuss how far jose baez can go with this. mar