was going forward, you can t say? all i said is it s consistent with his account, mr. zimmerman s account, that s all. it s also consistent with trayvon martin pulling back in terms of providing the same angle. told you that too. reporter: the last testimony of the day was from zimmerman s former neighbor, too ill to appear in person. she said she believes the voice screaming for help sounded like george zimmerman. based on the fact that i ve only heard george s voice and it s a white male voice, i would say that it was his. and when you say you ve heard him talk, tell us again about how long you ve known him. by that time, it was 2 1/2 years. reporter: perhaps the most powerful statement made in court today didn t take place on the stand. but when mark o mara said the defense planned to rest wednesday. martin savidge, cnn, sanford, florida.
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pieces of evidence that the defense wanted to get in. on one end is probably the marijuana, because it goes to someone s state of mind at the time this happened. on the other end, you get into the text messages. which jeffrey toobin is absolutely right, what we look at is what was in george zimmerman s mind at the time of, not just general history of trayvon martin. of course, on the silly end is the fact that he had gold teeth. but stuff that goes to his state of mind, marijuana, tends to be more probative. but then we move out to text messages and things that can t even be authenticated, and things we know that zimmerman was not aware of, and we move from probative and probably way more prejudicial. we have to take a quick break. we ll dig deeper into what they ve been arguing about today. which you re seeing which we don t know whether or not the jury is going to see this yet, a defense computer re-enactment of the zimmerman-martin struggle. we ll show you next and show you the te
before calling more witnesses to bolster its case that george zimmerman, while suffering a life threatening beating and crying for help, shot trayvon martin in self-defense. first, martin savidge gets up to date. reporter: dr. vincent demayo said the bullet hole in trayvon martin s clothing and body proved a key point, that it was martin who was on top of george zimmerman as they struggled. demayo, a gunshot expert, said he could tell it was martin on top of zimmerman because even though zimmerman s gun was touching martin s hoody, the hoody was not touching martin s skin. we know the clothing was two to four inches away is consistent with somebody leaning over the person doing the shooting, and that the clothing is two to four inches away. from the person firing.
reporter: he also countered the medical examiner s testimony for the prosecution who said martin could have survived and suffered up to ten minutes. he s going to be dead within one to three minutes after being shot in this case. reporter: finally, he testified that zimmerman s injuries fit his account, saying his review of photographs taken that night indicated zimmerman s head suffered at least six impacts. is this injury consistent with mr. zimmerman s head having impacted a sidewalk? yes. reporter: the prosecution jumped on a key question that the defense expert couldn t answer. you re not testifying as to who started what led up to the death of trayvon martin? that s correct, sir. and you re not saying who attacked who, whether it was george zimmerman who attacked