taken. do you know what attempts may have been made specifically in this case? objection. you ask me this case. just one second, please. we are just after the top of the hour here. i m brooke baldwin. quick pause there in the george zimmerman murder trial. it s what they call a side bar. they kill the mikes so these lawyers can approach the bench and have a little discussion. what you have been watching and what we ve been watching for really the crux of the day is this associate medical examiner. this man by the name of dr. bao. he is the person to have performed that final autopsy on 17-year-old trayvon martin. he is being cross-examined by one of the co-counsel, defense co-counsel don west. let me bring in my legal expert who is will walk us through all of this. for however long this lasts for presumably the state rests today. tanya miller here in sfud owe. current criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor here. also eleanor odom, prosecutor.
defense attorney here with me in studio seven, eleanor odom. veteran prosecutor. tanya miller, defense attorney and former prosecutor. so welcome, welcome to all of you. i think we need to begin with the mother. we need to begin with sybrina fulton who we all knew, we all assumed she would be one of those final witnesses. this was when the state really had to bring home the story about the 17-year-old young man who was shot and killed last february. did she, eleanor? did she help them do that? tough for her. well, it was tough. and it always is for the victim s mother. but what was so important after we heard all that forensic evidence, remember, the day before the fourth of july on the 3rd, everything was about his sweatshirt and everything. this finally brings trayvon martin back into the courtroom. it makes him i hate to say it, come alive. it really humanizes the person that he was. it s so important to bring that up again in front of the jury as often as you can. especially af
place, this side bar hear ing. the jury is still out of the room. let s just try to understand maybe not necessarily what s happening because we re not in there and you re not the attorneys there. i don t want to put you in an awkward position, eleanor and tonya. let s talk about the process of resting a case. the state officially rested. i m getting in my ear from the control room. so jury is still not in the room. to rest without the jury? is that typical? well, not necessarily. but then they could bring the jury back in and you could say on the record the state rests. okay. just big picture today. here we have we start with the mother. then we see trayvon martin s brother. then we have this dr. bao who, you know, threw a curve ball in there a little bit with those notes before and then got into the minutia on the cross with distance of shooting and how long you know, whether or not he has an opinion based upon something that happened a couple weeks ago or while ago. there wa
0 so if i were to show you a picture of trayvon martin s fingernails, you wouldn t know whether or not they looked the same that day? the fingernail has to connect to trayvon s head for me even to identify. i m talking about the condition. what the fingernails looked like. if i showed you a picture, that wouldn t do you any good because you have no memory? yes. is that correct? i do not have any memory. i told you before, i told you right now, i do not remember anything. part of the protocol also includes fingernail clippings, correct? it s not my protocol. it s not my job. it s technician s job. they are trained to do that. don t you supervise the technicians? i supervise them. don t you make sure they do their job completely and correctly? i have confidence on them. well they are trained to do their job. i cannot keep my eye on them when i do autopsy. i do autopsy. my hands is gloved. my hands is bloody. are you doing an autopsy with bloody gloved hand
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