i think he was frustrated where he was put in a position where he didn t believe there was probable cause to move forward in this case. and the supervisors, again because of the political pressures on the sanford police department, demanded a photo to the state attorney s office. after nine edits of his report, then they were going to look at it and present it to the grand jury. i think that chris serino was looking at the case saying, it s not a crime, why are we moving this thing forward? at the end, in the last couple days, there have been demonstrations across the country. and people say that this is yet another example of the justice system not dealing with african-american males legitimately in the same way they deal with caucasian males. you actually work a lot on this issue. you just feel you believe there are inequalities in the system, but this is not a case where that applies? we have worked defending defendants in criminal cases. a large percentage of those are youn
west, were able to turn prosecution witnesses to their advantage. chris serino, for example, the lead investigator. did he make an impression on you? chris serino did. but to me he just was doing his job the way he was doing his job and he was going to tell the truth regardless of who asked him the questions. so you found him to be credible? i did. very credible. so when he testified that he found george zimmerman to be more or less overall truthful, did that make an impression on you? it did. it did. it made a big impression on me. why? because he deals with this all the time. he deals with, you know, murder, robberies. he s in it all the time. and i think he has a knack to pick out who s lying and who s not lying. the prosecution started off by saying that george zimmerman was on top in the struggle. and then later on they seemed to
what was it like day by day, just being on that jury? day by day was interesting. there were more interesting things than others. when they got into the evidence, it was a lot more interesting than just testimony. some of the witnesses some of the witnesses were good, some of them not so good. did you feel a lot of analysts watching the trial felt that the defense attorneys, mark o mara, don west, were able to turn prosecution witnesses to their advantage, chris serino, for instance, the lead investigators. did he make an impression on you? chris serino did. he but to me he was doing his job. he was doing his job the way he was doing his job and he was going to tell the truth regardless of who asked him the questions. so you found him to be credible? i did. very credible. so when he testified that he
found george zimmerman to be more or less an overall untruthful, did it make an impressive on you? it made a big impression on me. why? because he deals with this all the time. he deals with, you know, murder, robberies. he s in it all the time. and i think he has a knack to pick out who is lying and who is not lying. wendy, made a big impression on the jury there. just to remind everybody that happened at the end of serino s testimony on a long day there. the prosecution started up the next day trying to get that taken and struck from the record which later they were successful in doing but this was feathers to the wind. i mean, you can t get it back. it s interesting. on the one hand, i do think that she made a credible claim about how she didn t see race as the
and that whole history and that whole idea of him being not just a regular teenager, but a scary black menace. then the second part of that you don t accept the testimony or the evidence from the forensic scientist that he did have evidence of serious injury on his back of his head that may have been caused by cement? well, his own physician, the person who examined him said they were exaggerated. the medical examiner said there were two small cuts. they may have bled a lot, but they were exaggerated. chris serino said he believed zimmerman exaggerated his injuries. even if they got into a fight. here s the question, chris. where did the injuries come from on the back of his head. i m still trying to separate this case out the way the jury did it. i have to idea. they could have been rolling around on the grass, who knows. clearly there was a fight. george zimmerman s total account of having his head slammed to the concrete when they wound up in the grass, his own lawyer admi