and contrast that with the defense attorney mark o mara today as he began questioning witness jonathan good. morning, sir. morning. don t really want to be here, do you? i guess it has to be done. sure. you were very reluctant to be involved in the case at all, correct? correct. how does an attorney s demeanor affect not just how the jury sees the attorney, but more importantly, how the jury views the witnesses? we re back with seema iyer, joseph haynes davis, kendall coffey, and dana swickle. dana, you talked about this a little bit before. does it seem like they re playing a little good cop/bad cop, or this is a question of witness we like, witness we re not so keen on? you know, i think that s possible. i think that don west had a job. i think he tried to do what he could. did he seem a little bit aggressive? i m sure he was. but he was trying to get the point across that most people i think could be missing at this point because they re focusing so much on everyon
the back of zimmerman s jacket walls covered in grass and more wet on the back than the front, doesn t that corroborate his story more? yeah, it corroborates his story. that s why you had o mara yesterday holding up that picture board of the cuts and things on the back of the head, because all they re going to argue is that you tie all of this together. he was down on the grass. at that point, even all of this stuff that has been talked about, about whether or not he was chasing him or not, it all goes by the boards. unless there s something dramatic that the prosecution intends to introduce in this case, it s all but over. i don t agree with that. as damaging as jonathan good s testimony seemed to be, there was a key point of clarification that both the defense and the prosecution made clear. i want to play that. it looked like that position was a ground and pound type position, but i couldn t tell
walls covered in grass and more wet on the back than the front, doesn t that corroborate his story more? yeah, it corroborates his story. that s why you had o mara yesterday holding up that picture board of the cuts and things on the back of the head, because all they re going to argue is that you tie all of this together. he was down on the grass. at that point, even all of this stuff that has been talked about, about whether or not he was chasing him or not, it all goes by the boards. unless there s something dramatic that the prosecution intends to introduce in this case, it s all but over. i don t agree with that. as damaging as jonathan good s testimony seemed to be, there was a key point of clarification that both the defense and the prosecution made clear. i want to play that. it looked like that position was a ground and pound type position, but i couldn t tell
reporter: hello, fredricka. jonathan good has been one of the strongest witnesses and he took the stand yesterday. what makes him powerful are a couple things. he s a neighbor. he was in the subdi division, the condo complex, and he was the closest to the two, george zimmerman, trayvon martin, as they struggled in the darkness. he was about 15, 20 feet away. he was called by the state, meaning by the prosecution, but he really favored the defense. he was able to say that it was trayvon martin on top of george zimmerman, that at the same time he could see what appeared to be blowing being delivered against george zimmerman on the ground, and he even then talked about that big question, whose voice could be heard crying for help? here is how the defense cross-examined him. the boy is screaming for help however many times that you
book hoodie on top of eacher a white guy or his panic guy with a red sweat shirt yelling help. one guy on top with the black h hoodie was pretty much throwing down blows kind of mma style. was that the context in which that happened? yes. maybe jonathan good s testimony could prove damaging for the prosecution. watching the hearings all week, right now mr. parks joining me, co-counsel for the family. the general consensus seems to be a difficult day for the prosecution. would you go along with that? i really wouldn t. i think, piers, it s really important, if you listen to the testimony of mr. good, the way he described the person on top was holding the other person