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in fact, his curfew had to be extended last night. if i can defend don west, also an outstanding attorney, he s an honorable person, he s not a potted plant, there to fight for his client and he s trying to say, it s too early, don t put my client on the spot like this. in front of the national media. he shouldn t have to answer this question until the final witness for the defense is called, so don t put him on the spot. that s what don west was trying to say. judge, dennis root who testified, the defence expert, i ve got to believe because they couldn t get the animation video in as evidence, they tried to get in through him what they wanted. it seems to me like he went way beyond the bounds of what i expect to hear from an expert. were there aspects of his testimony you found yourself saying that s not something you look to an expert to answer? absolutely. he was allowed to testify about all kinds of things. he got into the psychology. some of the things he got into, the prosecu
include the lesser charges of manslaughter and aggravated assault. but the defense has objected, so that will likely be settled tomorrow. today was a day in which both prosecution and defense attorneyed used a pan quin to demonstrate what may have happened between trayvon martin and george zimmerman before the gun fired kicking martin. dennis root, public safety expert called by the defense, testified that the physical capabilities of george zimmerman were weaker than those of trayvon martin and that martin was in better physical condition. msnbc s craig melvin has been monitoring all of today s proceedings. he joins us from the florida courthouse. we will not be hearing directly from george zimmerman. no. that was the headline today, good sir. good evening to you. george zimmerman telling judge nelson this afternoon that, after consulting with his attorneys, he decided not to testify on his own behalf. 18 defense witnesses, 38 witnesses for the state, and now it appears this case wi
judge nelson told the jurors before she released them, she said she s going to bring them back at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, but before she released them she said closing arguments will start tomorrow. that means that best-case scenario they could get the case tomorrow, worst-case scenario, sometime on friday. dennis root, the witness that testified, a self-proclaimed use of force expert, retired law enforcement officer as well, basically testified that based on the evidence that was given to him, george zimmerman s story checked out. the information that was given to him, of course, was given to him by the defense. he was a defense expert witness, paid by the defense. but he was given a number of pictures and also interviewed george zimmerman. he also looked over some of the witness statements, as well. he was asked pointedly by mark o mara, attorney of course for george zimmerman, ill will, spite, hatred, based on what
sometimes the picture s a little too crazy for words. when we went to break, that happened. and so i m not going to put you back into live testimony. what i m going to do is play to you what happened when we went to commercial break. because let me just put it this way, sometimes you get demonstrative aides, sometimes you get evidentiary aides and sometimes a dummy, i mean a real dummy. john guy, who is no dummy brought out a dummy because so much of this case focuses on who was on the top, who was hitting whom. and this is what john guy want to get out of this expert who s on the stand right now. his name is dennis root, a use of force expert. he s been testifying because of the interviews he did and the evidence that he looked at and the analysis that he did. not because he was there. and it s been critical to see what he s been saying because he s been trying to verbalize a recreation of how this fight