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that s their job. now, the defense, they said last night, stated last night they do plan to call witnesses. they have also done a great job of cross-examining these witnesses and getting bits and pieces of information out from these witnesses to try to raise a reasonable doubt in the jurors minds without putting george zimmerman on the witness stand. we ll see what witnesses they call, but they have absolutely maximized their cross-examinations in a way where they ve gotten a lot of information to work with out of these witnesses. now, lisa, we are told that sabrina fulton, trayvon s mother, may testify. what is it that the prosecution wants to get out of her? and what would be in your opinion the importance of her testimony if any? i have said all along if i were prosecuting this case, i would put her on last. and the most important thing in her testimony would be to play
essentially maligning george zimmerman because he wanted to be a police officer? he may have wanted to go on a ride along. we ve seen, by the way, the defense do a lot of cross-examinations of police officers that begin with, do you like being a cop? do you enjoy it? why do you enjoy it? because i like helping people. trying to establish there s nothing wrong with wanting to be a police officer. well, the prosecution says, no, that s not what this is about. why we want to get this into evidence is to show he knew the law. he knew the law of self-defense. he knows how criminal investigations go. that s why he tailored his story to be a story of self-defense. right. paul, to that point, perhaps this argument they re having right now and the earlier discussion with the best friend, who, of course, went through the police academy, is all to the idea on the state s theory of he wanted to be a police officer and he was playing or behaving as one in his mind that night. and not just that
sort of whittling away at the inconsistencies that christopher serino was able to get out of him by getting christopher serino, officer serino to say well, i didn t think he was lying or i was playing tricks on him to see how airtight his story was. and goldie, what about your thoughts? christopher serino definitely seemed to be a reluctant witness, but reluctant to say anything that made it seem that he thought george zimmerman was not telling the truth. sure. i think the prosecution has a very, very long way to continue to build its case. but you can see the defense case being laid out as we speak, as we hear the cross-examinations. we get some real clues as to how the zimmerman team will defend him. i just think that this case is there is a long way to go. and it does feel like we are gearing up toward, and we talked about this earlier in the hour, a case in which we may not actually hear from george zimmerman on the stand. it does feel like mark o mara is really laying th
this witness in the lineup of witnesses. and now next week they have their plan is to how and what order they re going to present this evidence to the jury to slowly build their case, pieces of a puzzle, to paint that picture and prove those elements beyond a reasonable doubt to this jury. lisa, we all are watching you nodding. what does that mean? one of the problems that is coming up i think for the prosecution is the law enforcement witnesses. some of them are certainly going to be very helpful to the prosecution. but we know that initially, the police made the determination that this was self-defense. correct. and so either the defense is going to put those law enforcement people on the stand. why did you make that determination. didn t it seem that his injuries were consistent with self-defense? didn t he seem to be telling you a plausible story? or the prosecution is going to have to put them on too and suffer more of these cross-examinations from the defense scoring some