.and we inspected his brakes for free. -free is good. -free is very good. [ male announcer ] now get 50% off brake pads and shoes at meineke. so you are watching the george zimmerman trial. and as we watch officer doris singleton get on the stand here, we want to get some input from our panel on the witness that we just saw, his second time on the stand, detective chris serino, the lead investigator in this. with us now, we have michael greco who is a criminal defense lawyer, and cnn legal analyst sunny hostin. guys, this is pretty fascinateding because what you ve seen here in the last few days is loved ones in the camp
this witness forward to say yes, he was a member of this gym, this mma style fighting gym, but he wasn t any good. what s the state going to argue? how will they counter that? he didn t have to be good enough to be bold to confront martin. he was carrying a loaded gun. when you re carrying a loaded gun, you don t have to be concerned about fighting. you know you have a gun. you know it s a fight that you can win. but aren t we trying to assess at this point if we re the prosecutors that he was doing the beatdown, that he, according to a neighbor who thinks he saw an mma-style punchdown, but thinks he saw the right jacket that matches george zimmerman s, don t you need to try to figure out how to neutralize that in a way? here s the weird part. you have a neighbor who says i think i saw george zimmerman doing mma-style punching excuse me, that i saw trayvon martin doing mma-style punching down on let me back it up. that trayvon martin, on top of george zimmerman, doing the
o mara, asking chris serino, former detective, about when the father first heard the 911 call. let s listen to that. okay. and what did you ask him? i believe my words were is that your son s voice in the background? i think i said it a little differently than that but i inquired if that was in fact his son yelling for help. and what was his response? he it was more of a verbal and nonverbal. he looked away and under his breath, as i interpreted it, said no. i want to bring in our legal experts, chris darden and diana tennis. court has recessed for the day so we re going to go over some of the key moments. tracy martin testified.
back live in sanford, florida, i m ashleigh banfield reporting from the george zimmerman second-degree murder trial. faith jenkins is with us. not only that, but ryan smith is joining us, hln anchor and extremely smart lawyer. just before the break, i said, faith, wow, did george zimmerman ever lose a lot of weight, going to that gym working out up to six hours a week. that s got to be good for the prosecutors. yes, because they re trying to show he was in physical shape. he could not have sustained this beating he said he sustained at the hands of trayvon martin. and who s the one with the mma training here? john goode, this witness said, he saw someone throwing mma punches. and he thought it was george zimmerman. when you re in a fight, one second you re up. one second you re down. the positions can change in the middle of a fight. and i think the prosecutors are going to use that in this case. okay. i m going to go back a little in time for any of our audience who missed this
found out in the courtyard at twin lakes where brandy green lived, right? correct. and i gather you went and got a picture of your son just to show them who your son was, or did they show you a picture of the person who at that time was described as an unknown person in the courtyard, they showed you a picture of a body on the ground, correct? objection, your honor. may we approach? yes. there s been an objection and the two lawyers are approaching the bench right now. i want to bring in christopher darden, and diane tennis. chris, what do you think of the trial so far today? it seems as though there have