0 opportunity to listen to that phone call? do you hear yells for help? do you have an opinion as to whose voice that is? are they continuous yells for help? were you able to identify mr. zimmerman s voice? when is the first time you heard that tape? you listened to it on the radio defense attorney mark o mara says among the witnesses he plans to call the to stand could the defense also call martin s father to the stand? trayvon martin s father. does anyone have a better argument than the other? only two people really know what happened on that evening. about whether it was george zimmerman or trayvon martin. this is day 20 of this trial. day 10 of testimony. the defense team says they plan to wrap up their presentation to the jury by mid to late week. court is in recess until 8:30 in the morning. the shocker in the george zimmerman trial today was that george zimmerman s defense called trayvon martin s father as a witness. it was a very risky tactic
0 but we begin tonight, we begin tonight with actually something shocking. this is a huge story. and i mean it when i say a story every american needs to know about and be thinking about. it is a story about a secret court. one that is operating inside the united states. it only hears one side of any argument. a secret court that is honestly, it is rewriting our surveillance laws. it is deciding what we meant as a society, as a country, when we said the government can t indiscriminately spy on us. to understand what this court is doing, though, we need to get into a corner of the law making process. a part of how we really do it. that most in the country don t think that much about. the way that most of us think about the process of lawmaking is kind of simple. congress passes a bill, and then the president signs a bill and maybe he s got a lot of pens when he does it and gives the pens away. when that is done, when that ceremony comes to a close, that bill is is now a low. in presiden
ingredient therein when he died. it s a development that could effect the outcome of this case. phil keating with the news live at the courthouse in central florida. that s just one piece of several key rulings today. the jury had already gone to their sequestered hotel. the jury will decide on one issue first thing tomorrow morning at 8:30. continuing with the marijuana ruling, this is a key victory for the defense. the defense argues that trayvon martin smoking pot that night would have effected his physical agitation or mental perception and that the 7/11 video shows a stoned teenager swaying at the counter. the judge also ruled against prosecutors who wanted to toss out john donley s voice id of zimmerman s screams since he heard the recording after the deposition but before today s testimony and still to come, whether this jury will be allowed to see, perhaps tomorrow or wednesday, a defense made computer am nation depicting the final minutes between zimmerman and martin includi
but first from fox this monday night, a fox urgent. late word that the country music star randy travis is right now critical condition at a hospital in texas. the 54-year-old grammy winner s publicist says is he suffering from acquired viral cardio my opathy. according to the mayo clinic that can lead to heart failure. randy travis is having quite a year. in january his lawyers said doctors were treating the singer for alcoholism after randy travis was involved in a string of highly publicized incidents. the most notorious from last august. then, police found him lying naked in the middle of a road, smelling of alcohol as they put it after apparently crashing his car. officers on scene claim he slammed into a construction zone and threatened to, quote: shoot and kill them when they tried to arrest him. his stardom is undeniable. randy travis sold more than 25 million records. and won more than two dozen major awards. tonight, serious concerns for a man in critical condition.
0 learned about this crash. but first from fox this monday night, a fox urgent. late word that the country music star randy travis is right now critical condition at a hospital in texas. the 54-year-old grammy winner s publicist says is he suffering from acquired viral cardio my opathy. according to the mayo clinic that can lead to heart failure. randy travis is having quite a year. in january his lawyers said doctors were treating the singer for alcoholism after randy travis was involved in a string of highly publicized incidents. the most notorious from last august. then, police found him lying naked in the middle of a road, smelling of alcohol as they put it after apparently crashing his car. officers on scene claim he slammed into a construction zone and threatened to, quote: shoot and kill them when they tried to arrest him. his stardom is undeniable. randy travis sold more than 25 million records. and won more than two dozen major awards. tonight, serious concerns for a man in cr