do you solemnly swear the testimony you will present will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? i do. thank you. you may proceed. thank you, your honor. could you introduce yourself to the jury, tell us your name, rank, serial number. captain francisco carter, united states army assigned to first infantry division. united states officer jag corps. i m basically a military prosecutor in the army. you are yet another lawyer. yes. do you also teach courses? i did at one point but not currently. would that have included back in the spring of 2010.
and we ll talk about that more in a minute. but, um, the work that you re doing now yes. are you prosecuting or defending? prosecuting. just prosecuting? just prosecuting. do you have the opportunity to defend? no, i do not not right now in the position that i am. but the way the jag corps is set up, they put you in a certain position, and throughout your career you move on to different things. before being a military prosecutor, i dealt with administrative law, federal regulations, interpreting of regulations, giving legal reviews, things of that nature. so as you progress, they move you on almost like a little circuit. so that would include defending at some point perhaps. possibly, if i chose it. you know, the army sometimes cares about what you want and then sometimes it s just the need of the army. so wherever you re best suited, your skill set, and wherever they need you is where they re going to put you.
professor that we have heard from, the second straight teacher we heard from that taught zimmerman a course in seminole state college. y plyou played a clip from captn alexis carter in the jag corps, the army jag corps. he testified earlier, he was zimmerman s criminal litigation professor. he taught self-defense. he also made the class, everyone in the class was familiar with the stand your ground law specifically. he also said on cross that self-defense is subjective. he talked about putting the number of scenarios on a projector for his students, some different self-defense scenarios as well. it was also during his testimony that we saw george zimmerman actually emote. he has been fairly stoic throughout the entire trial. but there was a chuckle this morning. we ll show that exchange to you as well.
one is the political question will the obama administration go forward with this nomination. my reaction is, there s a general overturn the conviction and the general was a woman. to be successful, you know, in an organization, to rise to its highest ranks whether corporate or here in this building you need be table buy into that culture. clearly she bought into the durl that s most prevalent. it s important to note the uniform code of military justice was derived out of the revolutionary war. you didn t have courts or jails around so you had to police your own troops. so the idea that a general or any commanding officer with one more stripe than you i have absolute control and that was important during the revolution war and civil war. not so important today when we have a jag corps and other resources, you have a civilian court who can take over these issues in a meaningful way.
this peculiar sunday night mystery. hi, everybody, glad you re with us. i m alina cho sitting in for don lemon tonight. and we begin with the bad weather bearing down on the southeast. tropical storm beryl fast approaching hurricane strength and nearing landfall. you can see the palm trees struggling against the wind earlier today, waves surging onshore. this is jekyll island, georgia, you re looking at. flooding obviously a big concern, and beaches all along the southeast coast are posting warnings about the dangers much rip currents. for the past 24 hours, lifeguards and emts hav who have ignored the warnings. our jacqui jeras watching it all for us. so, jacqui, a couple of questions. number one, pretty close to hurricane strength, right? yeah. and, also, how close are we to landfall? we re close. just within an hour or two potentially of landfall, but landfall not necessarily so important with this storm because it s a big storm and there are going to be very wides