anything. the only person to provide any insight at that very second that was there was mr. zimmerman. okay. and he said he was in the waist area and the defendant may have or trayvon martin may have slid down. and my question to you is would it be consistent the 90 degrees, if trayvon martin had been backing up and the defendant raised his gun and shot at 90 degrees? with you at that angle? 90 degrees to what, sir? when you talk about 90 degrees, we are talking about this degree? right, right. if it s front to back 90 degrees and you re standing there and holding a gun up already you re 45 degrees where you are because he is laying flat on the ground. and straight up. excuse me. one at a time. i apologize. if trayvon martin is backing up, could not the defendant have shot him at a 90-degree angle? if trayvon martin is backing up? correct. and you re saying that mr. zimmerman is laying on his back and he brings the gun to bear on trayvon he is backing up and sudde
trajectory of the bullet being referenced in there at being at 90 degrees? yes, sir. and i believe front to back. right. wouldn t that be consistent with trayvon martin getting off of george zimmerman and george zimmerman raising the gun and firing it? well, when you talk about angles of anything, sir, it can be consistent with any kind of movement. we could say it could happen that way, it could happen another way. there are various ways that you could have it happen. and, you know, you weren t there, i wasn t there. so the information that we have is what mr. from the defendant, right? that s correct, sir. may i approach yes, you may. i mean, your information came enter the defendant? not all of it, sir. your indication is that the only person i spoke with is the defendant and that not accurate. i m talking the time the shot was fired. the time the shot was fired, the information i culminated on that is a culmination of
on the stand is in the zimmerman trial is dennis root. he is being questioned about the injuries of george zimmerman. well, i didn t need to ask about the blood getting his nhis eyes because the time the photographs were taken they were fresh and no blood on his and as far as mouth, i didn t ask him him. you didn t ask the defendant whether he tried to cover his face while this was going on, did you? no. you didn t ask the defendant whether or not he tried to strike trayvon martin? no. again, i didn t spend a lot of time asking him a lot of things. the defendant never told you, did he you, what he was doing with his hands once this was going on? no, sir. i don t recall him saying anything. you talked about vantage