good evening. i m joy reid in for chris math newspapers we ve been listening to testimony from fis s assistant lind zee foal gate gate in the george zimmerman trial. joining us is seem ma ire, joseph hanes and kendall coffey. seemma, i want to talk about what we ve been hearing. lind zeal follow gate who examined george zimmerman the day after the shooting seems to be she s called by the prosecution but she is definitely not going all the way in the prosecution s direction but she did testify when she saw george zimmerman, she only saul two small lacerations. what s the significance of that for the prosecution? for the prosecution, they re trying to point out which i think was successful on redirect that there was no neurological
getting beat up, think they have to add details to make it seem like they were on the verge of death? and if your head is being slammed against a sidewalk, against concrete, don t you go to the hospital that night? aren t you really worried that you suffered some kind of serious injury? instead, he doesn t do that. he comes in the next day. he s got lacerations. obviously not fractures. and i agree that this witness didn t give the prosecution everything they want, but the prosecutor managed to nail it down. all she could document were some lacerations on the back of the head. so when the jury is finished sorting this out, i think they re likely to reach a conclusion that, yeah, zimmerman was definitely getting hurt. he s got some injuries. but might maybe he was just exaggerating a bit the severity. and if they go down the path of thinking george zimmerman wasn t being truthful, some things could happen for the prosecution. and joseph, i m going to give you the last word, because sp
thank you very much, your honor. actually, it will be a few minutes before i need this. so thank you. good afternoon, ma am. hi. i m going to focus again he was a patient of yours for a while before the event where he came to you on february 27th, correct? correct. but just to start with the last question first, he did not have any back pain caused by back injury before this event, correct? no. the back injury was actually internal concern that showed itself as a back pain? correct. we believed it was likely relate to the the constipation. when he came to you on the 27th, that was the first time he had ever complained of back pain? yes, this was unrelated. okay. let s focus then on that night. okay. the day make sure i do this right so give me a moment. this, yes, thank you very much, your honor. is this close to how he presented to you that day? from what i recall, similar. yes. yes? yes. okay. this was just this was taken the night