represented to you that he is the eyewitness, he is the crucial eyewitness. he s the only eyewitness. i ll beg to differ. again, what s important is what you think. let s talk a little bit about john good. what did john good tell you? he saw what he believed was the victim on top of the defendant. now, he did not see the shooting. he saw prior to the shooting. i will submit to you when you kind of put all the witnesses together, that there wasn t just, like, the defendant knocking the victim down to the ground, staying on top of him, beating the hell out of him. i would submit to you there was contact between them. that there was a fight. there was a struggle. ironically, of the two, one of the individuals is the one that s had, what, 18 months mma fighting? oh, but, of course, he s just a
make sure that the victim didn t get away. and now he wants you to let him off because he killed the only eyewitness. the victim, trayvon martin, who was being followed by this man who had the right to defend himself. defendant s interview. you obviously know he gave various interviews. i want to just quickly highlight certain parts that i will submit to you are relevant as to establishing why this defendant s lying and why he was caught in numerous lies. and then obviously why it happened.
you heard from ms. fulgate, she didn t see anything. it might be fractured, i don t know. what she recommended is go get x-rays. that s how we verify it. defendant refused or declined to do that. that s his privilege. they re going to argue to you, oh, he had a broken nose. first of all, who was following who? who started the fight or struggle? i circled this because in reviewing the evidence, i thought this might be interesting to you. and what i ve circled up there are his shoes. the defense claims defendant told the police that he was on his back the whole time and the victim was just whaling on him. well, you can look at the actual photograph. there s actually some grass on top, it appears wet as if he at some point was on top of the victim. some minor point. kind of corroborates some of the evidence, the witnesses