sequestration rule that calls for witnesses to avoid watching the trial and talking about the case until they had been excused from the trial. he had not yet been excused. this is important, because he had made the point that it was george zimmerman s voice on that 911 auld yeo tape that was crying out for help. he s a vietnam combat medic, who has heard people crying out for help many sometimes. tanned by. we ll go back into the courtroom shortly. meantime earlier, a dummy had a cameo role earlier in the day. both lawyers straddled the mannequin to try to demonstrate the fight. it happened when they were questioning a witness who is an expert on the use of force. watch and license to this. george zimmerman, trayvon martin. were the injuries on mr. zimmerman s head consistent with someone doing this on cement?
to the inflection of that testimony, how a witness has changed their opinion regarding something. what he did was not change hess testimony. he added to it by, for whatever reason, waiting until two or three days before a jury trial to make the whatever that emotional decision was he went through to listen to something, which he listened to, but that was not a change in testimony, though it is added to it. and then the question is, did the violation of the rule that obviously occurred infect that testimony. i would suggest since what he heard had nothing to do with ha he eventually testified to, didn t. did it prompt him to finally come to grips that he should listen to the tape? maybe so, maybe it did, but to the substance we have to look to some of the cases i presented to you.
smarten, the argument he was making is that 40 seconds could be an eternity. if he thought he was saving his own life, reaching out, getting that gun may have in fact been justified. i guess that s the upshot of what den knit root is trying to say. i wonder if that was your reading of his testimony. i think it was. i was very surprised to how long that witness actually was on the stand president i mean, i think it was quite clear, that the prosecution was able to take his testimony and really bend it to their advantage. he certain was no dr. vincent di maio. many people believed that he really nailed it on the part of the defense as showing quite clearly that the body, trayvon martin s body was the key evidence that verified george
testy and dramatic day of testimony in this second-degree murder trial. we re standing by for a news conference by the defense after the court resists for the day. they have not done that yet. zimmerman did not take the stand to personally explain his claim that he shot trayvon martin in self-defense. the judge reminded him several times that he had a right to do so. did you now have sufficient time to discuss with your attorneys whether or not you are to testify in this case? yes, your honor. i don t need to know what was said, but after those discussions, have you made a decision? yes, your honor. what is your decision? after consulting with counsel, not to testify, your honor. you understand that no matter what counsel says to you, it s still your decision, do you understand that? yes, your honor. okay. i need to know, is it your decision to not testify in this case? yes, your honor. the final witness on zimmerman s behalf was his father. he testified that his
head. basically, it showed he was a good guy, a good neighbor. and that he was a reasonable he had a reasonable thought that, there would be somebody in the neighborhood. there had been break-ins and such. look, he is fighting for his life. i misstated something earlier, ag assault, mandatory 3 years, even lesser if the state is seeking, even if he gets the smallest he has mandatory prison time. the defense is going out to show his actions are reasonable. don t want to leave any stone unturned and settle for manslaughter and ag assault. that will be prison time if lessers come in. sunny? i thought it was helpful for the prosecution. it shows what he had on his mind. he had on his mind that trayvon martin was a criminal, perhaps one of the other african-american teens that had broken into the neighbor. i got to tell you. i don t understand why the defense called that witness. i don t think it was helpful at all. hold on for a moment. we ll continue our analysis of what happened.