his father who was with his girlfriend? well it was because he had been suspended from school and he had been suspended for school from marijuana use. if the state somehow brings up that question, then it may need to be answered to the jury s satisfaction and the judge will rule she says at that time of whether the defense can bring it up. so while it won t be included in the opening statements with we may indeed see it part of this case. and real quickly, george zimmerman not in the courtroom today. why is that? do we know. i don t have a specific answer as to why he s not obligated to be in the courtroom and so he is not here today. kerry sanders reporting from sanford florida. thank you so much. i want to bring in paul headerson, a prosecutor. as a prosecutor and you re hearing what s going on this morning. a lot of fast moving developments but the judge is decisive in her rulings. what do you make of the character evidence they have tried to get presented for trial and the fa
sure that in a highly profile and highly publicized case is that the people that need to do their job on this case fairly and impartially are as protected as we can make them. i don t know how we re going to do that just from a logistics standpoint. how are you going to sequester for three or four weeks? we re going to book people into hotels? it s impossible. joining us is kerry sanders outside the courtroom. before we get started i want to mention that george zimmerman sued nbc universal for defamation and the company strongly denied his allegations. a lot of fast moving parts but let s start with what we do know and the fact that the judge denied any delay. that means that things are set two weeks from now. that monday morning there will be 500 potential jurors that will be summoned here to the courthouse in sanford, florida and they ll walk in and begin
the voir dire process. that s where the prosecutors and defense get to interview this potential jurors. the judge ordered that there will be no names released and that the cameras will not be allowed to show the faces of the potential jurors in the courtroom. 500 people coming into the courthouse with cameras everywhere. there will be pictures of them taken going into the courthouse. that s one thing that the judge did not address. there will be a hearing on how this is all going to be handled. there is an attorney here representing the media. florida has a very open record state where just about everything is presented for public inspection which means that cameras and reporters can show and reveal just about everything in the judicial process. this is some what unusual, however not unprecedented. is the defense having a bad morning so far not getting the delay they requested? they wanted to be able to use
we have been listening to the attorney that represents the parents of trayvon martin talking about what happened today in the pretrial hearing for the case against george zimmerman. the state of florida against george zimmerman and the murder charge he is facing going forward. basically, benjamin crump talking about the fact that the defense attorneys were trying to defame the character of trayvon martin but reminding everybody it s not trayvon martin on trial for this. the biggest thing was the fact that the judge denied the defenses request to delay the start of the trial. that trial will begin coming up on june 10th. so i want to say thank you to my guests for standing by as we rolled with the punches there. i did give you fair warning. judd i m sorry because you re away from me and i couldn t give you fair warning. i ll start with you on this because we left talking about obstructionism in washington d.c. and it starting to come to roost and here we have boehner talking about his
the first person questioned has an ongoing feud with this guy. coming around. learning the details slowly. apparently elvis impersonator and dutschke had something going on. that is up in the air. a marriage major turning poe case against george zimmerman, former neighborhood watch volunteer will not seek immunity under the florida stand your ground law. a report on the legal decision from sanford, florida. that is my concern reporter: in every way he knows how, defense attorney mark o meara desperately tried to stop deborah nelson from quizzing his client. outside the presence of the state and media. reporter: the matter at hand, does george zimmerman fully understand and waive his right to a stand your ground hearing before his trial? the state wanted his response on the record and despite o meara s objection, prosecutors got their wish, george zimmerman raised