Bombing victims. Now a threeperson panel is determining whether to impose further punishment. Lets getting right to it. Migwin charles and danny cevallis. Theres clearly growing support for Savannah Guthrie murphy. More than 60,000 likes at this hour. Certainly it does, but more than just the general public support, you have to believe theres a lot of support within the police department, whether its articulated in the open or not. This is a Police Officer who acted through probably a heroic kind of way. So while officially they must view it as a violation of internal rules, i have to believe whatever Panel Members are on this particular panel, they may have some leanings toward this particular officer. It appears under the rules he could have been suspended up to five days, so that sort of gives us a lead into where the department is leaning on this case. We know he did release these pictures, the unauthorized photos. Did he commit a crime . It looks as though he just violated departm
Yes, your honor. What is your decision, sir . After consulting with counsel, not to testify, your honor. Is it your decision not to testify in this case . Yes, your honor. Are you making that decision freely and voluntarily . Yes, your honor. Reporter and with that, the defense rested. With all that in mind, the defense would rest. Reporter much of the day was spent on a witness saying zimmerman was nonconfrontational. But it was a dummy that proved to be one of the strongest witnesses of the day. It begin when the prosecutor grabbed a mannequin to show their version of events. Do you recognize this as being a humantype figure, right . Yes, sir. Okay. Reporter it was here the state seemed to concede Trayvon Martin could have been on top of George Zimmerman. Suggesting he was pulling away at the time he was shot. Previously the prosecution argued zimmerman was on top. Would it be consistent the 90 degrees if Trayvon Martin had been backing up and the defendant raised his gun. Reporter t
We begin in sanford, florida, 505 days ago. New tonight, a deadly shooting in sanford. Police have the gun. Theyve got the shooter. But they have not arrested him. Fox w5s keith landry tells us the dead mans grieving family wants to know why not. Is that a friend of yours . My son. This afternoon we met tracy martin at the crime scene. He says his 17yearold son, Trayvon Martin was shot to death. He walked out of the house to go to the store. He was going to the store. The guy on the bottom who i believed had a red sweater on was yelling to me, help, help. I told him to stop and i was calling 911. The family of 17yearold Trayvon Martin is asking the state attorneys office, attorney general and Sanford Police to prosecute the miami teenagers killer. In this case, mr. Zimmerman has made the statement of selfdefense. Until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we dont have the grounds to arrest him. Outraged residents asked the Sanford Police department to show accountability. I
Seconddegree murder. Find zimmerman guilty of manslaughter, a lesser charge. Find zimmerman not guilty. Acquit him. And the fourth option if jurors cannot agree is a hung jury, a mistrial. We also have a startling development involving Trayvon Martins cell phone to tell you about now, a pretrial witness got fired for raising questions about thousands of photos on martins cell phone. He was the director of Information Technology for the Florida State attorneys office. I want to play just a clip of the former i. T. Director testifying at a pretrial hearing. Listen to this i knew that the information existed. And id been told two Different Things by mr. De la rionda, one that fdle would redo the report and the information would be provided and then in a second one that only the source file would be provided. I knew at least one of those approaches was probably inaccurate or wrong. At that point the more that i thought about it, i was curious if i had any legal exposure. And, um, at that p
Did you know how big this it was unreal. It was like something that why would they want to pick me . Why would i be picked over all these hundreds of people that they interviewed. And when the trial started, what was the first day like . There were the opening statements. Don west told a joke, what did you think of that . The joke was horrible. I just nobody got it. I didnt get it until later, and then i thought about it. And im like, i guess that could have been funny, but not in the context he told it. Going into the trial, did you have an idea in your mind about what happened . No, because i hadnt followed the trial at all. I heard bits and pieces of what had happened, and the names that were involved, but not any details. Take me back if you can to the first day, the opening statements, what do you remember about them . What stood out to you . Not a lot. Because it seems like its been years ago that it happened. It does. It seems like its been a very long time that we were there. W