0 i object to the court acquiring of mr. zimmerman as to his decision whether or not to testify. your objection is overruled. reporter: but after a tense exchange between judge debra nelson and zimmerman s lawyers, he made his choice. after consulting with counsel not to testify, your honor. reporter: there was also proof in court wednesday you can learn a lot from a dummy. during one of the most surreal moments in court, both sides straddled a foam dummy in attempts to illustrate the conflicting arguments as to what happened the night trayvon martin was killed. prosecuting attorney john guy argued that it could have been difficult for zimmerman to shoot at a 90 degree angle had trayvon martin been on top. would it be consistent the 90 degrees if trayvon martin was backing up and the defendant raised his gun and shot at 90 degrees? reporter: then defense attorney mark o mara grabbed the dummy to support his argument. the injuries on mr. zimmerman s back on his head cons
the sound you heard was sounding like a person screaming from 15 or 17 feet away almost directly at you, right? it sound like it was coming towards me, correct. okay. now, and i m sorry to jump back to that, i apologize. so they now moved up. they are now on the true ground and pound position. and mr. dea rionda made histrionics of what you did hear and didn t hear. did you hear something like this? no. okay. could something like that have happened without you being able to hear it? objection. recollection. sustained. were you paying attention to the noise of the ground and pound that you were watching? probably not. i was just seeing to make sure if it was serious or not and that s when i went back inside. . best creation ever!
correct. all of those statements included some facts that were added to one or just not added to the other, correct because of the way the questions were being asked? i don t know about facts, but they needed more clarification. sure. then, of course, we took your deposition. i think that was 50 pages or so correct? correct. again, we asked you questions, you just answered the questions as best you can. correct. mr. de a rionda wanted to make sure the jury understands just the fact that you have statement one, statement two, statement three, statement four that, are not all exactly the same, you weren t lying, were you? no. okay. you were just answering the questions that were being asked, right? correct. some had more than the other ones, yes. as best you could remember that vent back then, correct? correct. and you even said that if adrenaline was flowing, wasn t it? yes.
concrete, the position was, with arm movement going downweird. from the time that you were first stepped out to watch them, inle the time you turned back around, was about 8 to 10 seconds, correct? i would say because it was very quick. 8 to 10 seconds? yeah, it wasn t a long time, no. okay. mr. de a rionda said it was two, it was more than two, wasn t it? i didn t say the whole thing was two seconds. what was going on? 8 to 10 seconds. that s when you had your focus specifically on what turned out to be as we all know trayvon martin and george zimmerman, correct? correct. we didn t know then. now we know who they were. yes. 8 to 10 seconds you were watching tell do whatever is happening? i would say yes. okay. and you were talking about a movement or a struggle that you saw. tell me more about that.
bottom, suggesting that trayvon martin was on the top, holding him down, as he said, throwing strike, throwing blows. that s what he said in the statement before, today he is saying he cannot say with certainty if the person on the top was throwing strikes or just holding that person down. so that s what you see the prosecution doing, ashley, just a minute ago, they were certain to make sure that was stated on the record. the prosecution came out, de a rionda said did you see or hear any of this. mr. good said, no, i can t say with certainty. let me use more colorful language. in the words of john good, george, during his deposition that was taken, he said, i saw a black guy in a black hoodie on a white guy who i now assume to be a hispanic guy throwing down punches mma-style, that s mixed martial arts for those out there who may not know what mma is. such a significant moment in