that she found him credible, that serino found george zimmerman believable and truthful, and that was something the judge specifically told the jurors to disregard and yet that came out in her interview as being something important about zimmerman and the juror s findings about his credibility. here you have this lead detective in this case, right, and this person ultimately in the end seemed to be testifying more on behalf of the defense. we were all watching, right, the state s witness that day and we were sort of blown away. the idea that the jurors could go home and scrub that from their minds is kind of impossible. yes. that s why you always say, it s very difficult to unring a bell once it s been rung. you ask the jury to disregard what they heard, but that was really egregious testimony on behalf of this detective who should have, frankly, known better than to vouch for the credibility of the defendant. detectives can t ordinarily say i believe the defendant is a
his argument was, should he have run home? why do you have to run home? why does somebody walking have to run because somebody i m not suggesting he has to run, but there is a he can just simply not engage. remember, it s zimmerman s testimony that he gets out of the car and trayvon martin assaults him. now, that may be untrue, but that s what the jury heard. charles comment was, okay, then trayvon martin ignores him, goes into this house, and then george zimmerman thinks here s a guy breaking into a house. what was george zimmerman doing for four minutes? his car was 100 feet away. did it take george zimmerman four minutes to get back to his car? mark, you picked detective serino as critical. yeah, and can i tell you why? yeah. in 30 years of practice, i have never seen a detective so embrace a defendant in his own trial in my life. i probably will go to my grave and never see it again. that is the most astonishing situation that you will see. i mean, when have
minutes. when the call dropped, there was two minutes between that call dropping and the shot. why should what should trayvon martin have done? his argument was, should he have run home? why do you have to run home? why does somebody walking have to run because somebody i m not suggesting he has to run, but there is a he can just simply not engage. remember, it s zimmerman s testimony that he gets out of the car and trayvon martin assaults him. now, that may be untrue, but that s what the jury heard. charles comment was, okay, then trayvon martin ignores him, goes into this house, and then george zimmerman thinks here s a guy breaking into a house. what was george zimmerman doing for four minutes? his car was 100 feet away. did it take george zimmerman four minutes to get back to his car? mark, you picked detective serino as critical. yeah, and can i tell you why?
been an emotional time. as you heard from the father, tracy martin on the stand, he and the mother are just traumatized. the last two days have been tough, because now the whole endurance of all of this is wearing on them. so they just want to see him punished and to pay his debt for taking trayvon s life. they are still just in a point of disbelief of having lost their son. i don t know if you talked to tracy martin about his testimony. about how he felt it went. there were two police officers on the stand testifying that he had initially said he couldn t identify his son s voice. tracy martin on the stand said that s not the case. he said, i wasn t sure and now that i listened to it i am sure. how did you feel he did on the stand? he did good. let s think about what we heard. we heard tracy martin say that he backed away, we heard detective serino back away. what he said under his breath is tracy martin murmured something and he interpreted that as a no. the fact that he said he
i don t know if you talked to tracy martin about his testimony. there were two police officers on the stand testifying that he had initially said he couldn t identify his son s voice. he said i wasn t sure but now that i have listened to it, i am sure. how did you feel he did on the stand? he did good. let s back up a second and think about what we heard. we heard tracy martin say that he backed away, we heard detective serino back away. what he said under his breath is tracy martin murmured something and he interpreted that as a no. the fact that he said he interpreted it makes it clear it was somewhat unclear. and he said that singleton was not there. so there s issues there in terms of what he said. most importantly, though, we must remember he had heard a series of 911 calls and at the end he heard a gunshot that took