understood what he was saying. the other thing is as a witness, that was, you know, the first time i had been a witness in a case and it was just very difficult, because i had no clue what he was going to ask, so it was hard for me to try to stay focused on what i was, you know, to answer the questions and also just keep my mind focused on what was going on in the courtroom. tracy, you understand as well, and do you feel they were respectful? the defense called you. how do you feel that went? i felt it went good for me, because i had i had no reason to get up on the stand and lie. but i did have the right to get up on the stand and contradict what detective serino and detective singleton said and i felt as though what they said was untrue and i felt that i had
you asked the question, and let me answer it. but i just didn t want him to put words into my mouth. and i understood what he was saying. the other thing is as a witness, that was, you know, the first time i d been a witness in a case. and it was just very difficult because i had no clue what he was going to ask. so it was hard for me to try to stay focused on what i was, you know, to answer the questions. and also just keep my mind focused on what was going on in the courtroom. tracy, you will understand as well, and do you feel they were respectful? because the defense called you. how do you feel that went? i felt they went good for me. because i had no reason to get up on the stand and lie. but i did have the right to get up on the stand and contradict what detective serino and devisinghle on the said.
yeah. okay. what was it like day by day just being on that jury? day by day was interesting. there were more interesting things than others when they got into the evidence, it was a lot more interesting than just testimony. some of the witnesses some of the witnesses were good. some of them not so good. did you feel a lot of the analysts who are watching the trial felt that the defense attorneys, mark o mara, don west, were able to turn prosecution witnesses to their advantage. chris serino, for instance, a lead investigator. did he make an impression on you? chris serino did. he but he to me he just was doing his job. he was doing his job the way he was doing his job and he was going to tell the truth regardless of who asked him the questions. so you found him to be credible? i did. very credible. when he testified that he found george zimmerman to be more or less overall truthful,
that kept coming up from bernie de a rionda was we don t get to pick our witnesses. and, you know, i asked him about, you know, investigator serino, the lead investigator whose testimony clearly helped the defense. yeah. and they were very tactful in the way they answered the questions, but the bottom line kept coming back to we don t pick our witnesses. it s what he didn t say that sort of answered the question. i think so. i think so. whatever s happening internally. we know bernie de a rionda, angela corey s office takes over the investigation. so serino and local people were pushed out. serino had given it to the state attorney in his jurisdiction. the bottom line is people who usually help you weren t necessarily helping you. right. especially the lead investigator. right. i believe him. that s the end of the case. right. if you believe george zimmerman, end of the case. right. what about how bernie de a rionda talked to you about how he feels like his team did i
place but just got displaced by the vandalism in the neighborhoods and wanting to catch these people so badly that he went above and beyond what he really should have done. so let s continue. you hear her say, you know, i feel like there s this acknowledgment that what he did was wrong. you know, he should perhaps not have followed trayvon martin but ultimately it came down to self-defense. but, look, brooke, when she says his heart was in the right place, let s be clear because twitter has actually blown up on me on this one point. yeah. i believe what she is referring to is the neighborhood watch activity, that his heart was in the right place in terms of wanting to keep his neighborhood safe, but one of the most to my mind one of the really glaring legal errors is that she boot strapped that to detective serino s testimony