potential of what they ll way most. when the judge stopped the at&t/time warner counsel on cross, i m trying to say this in layman s way, you re done with cross. a judge can do that but it s unusual and on redirect, which is, you know, the prosecutions choice to go back at onef their own witnesses after being crossed, this is redirect, no leadgquestions. so this was very tightly policed and it does give you a window that this judge is not joking around and seems to be going by the book which would suggest that the government has a little bit of a challenge on its hands because by the book, we haven t seen a case like this before. reporter: we haven t seen a case like this since the 1970s. he understands the magnitude of this case. he was even ad monishing a witness on trial yesterday for what he said was just not answering the questions directly. i ve spoken to quite a few justice department officials including in the antitrust division and some of them have told me they think the
good morning. jose good morning. yesterday was obviously a very interesting day here. we saw for the first time some emotion from dzhokhar tsarnaev in this trial, but we also heard through the transcripts about one of the side bars where the defense asked to a mistrial and in would say if your defense attorney doesn t ask for a couple in a case like this they re not doing their jobs. but this involved a question on redirect on cross-examination, i should say, from the governments to one of the family members who had reported that dzhokhar tsarnaev when he was a little boy cried during the lion king movie when mufasa the lion king father was killed in this battle. wouldn t you think that there s a little difference from and i m paraphrasing here from the cartoon character dying and from hundreds of people suffering. there was an objection. the defense asked for a mistrial which was denied. the first up today is someone from the russian community. later we re expecting to hear
it doesn t matter to the jury, but it matters to the judge when she decides if she s going to let it in now. the chance was to bring it in yesterday. they took a gambled risk by holding off. if you asked that question on cross-examination, on redirect, the defense will get to rehabilitate him, so now they figure, all right, we re going to ask it during our case, and we re going to ask it while we re asking the questions, so we re going to ask those questions today to show bias and show that he made him out to be this great fighter. maybe a mistake on strategy. if you re going to bring it out, bring it up while he s out there and it s fresh on his mind. you show how he was being paid and how he came out. just move on that theme. keep it going when he s a fresh witness. now potentially they call him as the first witness out of the box, the judge agrees with the defense and says move on, ask him something else.
mannequin were carrying a firearm on their waist, where would the gun be right now in relation to me in. would be at your left inner thigh. right here? yes. if he was right-handed your left inner thigh. underneath my leg? yes, inside your leg. were you ware the defendant described to his best friend when he slid down that trayvon martin was up around his armpits? were you aware of that? no. no, sir. where would the gun be now in. now the gun would be behind your left leg. on redirect mark o mara straddled the dummy slamming the head to the ground to indicate that zimmerman s injuries are consistent with trayvon martin being on top of him with that fight. i want to talk about the significance of that
more of a has done a better job of poking holes in the prosecution s argument if i m being quite honest. lisa bloom, after the defense rests what are we going to see from the prosecution side? will there be some redirect? the prosecution has an opportunity to put on a rebuttal case. we don t get to know any of the witnesses in advance so we don t know what they re going to put on. the defense has a chance to put on a surrebuttal case as long as the witnesses are in the scope of the rebuttal case. after all of that shakes down i expect to hear the judge charge the jury with the law they have to follow in the case. then closing arguments, then deliberations. and craig melvin down there in florida, i know as the court is about to resume and they re coming into the courtroom today, there s a lot of anticipation as to the closing days really in this emotional case. a great deal of anticipation, andrea mitchell. dennis root, by the way, when he takes the stand, he s going to be the