jonathan good is the witness you re talking a. he is i guess you could say the first eyewitness. there have been a number of witnesses who have spoken about what they heard. this was someone who really spoke about from what he said he saw. he said he was standing maybe x 15 feet away from where the struggle took place between martin and zimmerman inside that condo complex. he said he saw maybe somebody dressed in red or white on the bottom. we know that george zimmerman was wearing a red and black jacket. and that martin was wearing a dark hoodie. on the top of that came the issue of who was crying for help. and that is something that the defense has been keying on. because they believe whoever is crying for help is not the real aggressor in this case. so listen to the exchange on the stand about that. the voice screaming for help, however many times that you heard it, it was just one person s voice? when i heard it outside?
trial. some said it hurt trayvon martin, some said it hurt george zimmerman. it was a mixed bag. they contradicted each other. they even contradicted themselves because they gave several different accounts of what happened. here s what one resident, jonathan good, said that seemed to fall in trayvon s corner. the person you knew to be trayvon martin was on top, correct? correct. and he was the one raining blows to the man on the bottom, george zimmerman, right? that s what it looked like. to the end of the day, it appears it all boiled down to who was on top in the confrontation. that would tend to make that person, if the jury believes that person is on top, the aggressor. who was crying out for help? it would tend to lean toward the person crying out for help was the victim. whose voice was that? and those are questions that we re still sifting through as this trial unfolds. back to you, fredricka. thanks so much, jane
here is they have put forth that and i think mr. good s testimony is real important. if you look at the details of him describing the fight, he he actually even in the clip that you just played right, he actually talks about the person on the bottom fighting back to some degree, too. so the notion that he said at one point in trying to say that in putting forth the theory of mma style, the person s legs were held down the arms of the person on the ground is simply not true. they were fighting and in this situation, they when he was also asked about the part of being on the concrete, he doesn t describe a situation where someone was just being pounded and pounded into the concrete step after step. so i right, that is true the prosecution sorry, let s watch another clip from his testimony, jonathan good because a lot of what you re saying is correct. let s watch this again. you mentioned you, the second positioning or the change in positioning we call it, they were hori
involving star witness rachel jeantel, the high school classmate joins me in a moment for an exclusive interview. this is piers morgan live. martin, dramatic day today and if to date we felt that perhaps the state was beginning to win the argument, today very much a better day you would say for the defense? reporter: absolutely and ironically, piers, the witnesses were supposed to be on the stand for the state, but it appears the testimony they gave benefits the defense. the question has been who was on top? what i mean by that is that the defense has maintained it was george zimmerman on the ground being beaten by 17-year-old trayvon martin, but up until now, the witnesses we had have really only said what they heard. today jonathan good took the stand, and he says he actually saw the struggle that took place between those two men, and he says from his vantage point, he could tell who was on top and who was on the bottom.
tell you who was yelling? it was george zimmerman. it was george zimmerman on the bottom. that was unbelievable. the other thing is witness number 21 who was the officer zimmerman. he said something that also was unbelievable gift to the defense. he said that when he asked and when he was talking to george zimmerman after arresting him, that george had a very confused look on his face as he was describing the fact that he was calling for help and nobody came, which also corroborated george zimmerman s story but jon good s story that he came out, saw george zimmerman calling for help. they yelled, he didn t respond, went back in and all of a sudden we have this terrible tragedy and finally, i heard y all say that the prosecution ended on a strong note, that may be true, but the defense was able to establish that there were wounds all around his head. why? well that supports the rolling