reporter: zimmerman s defense team argued his past training and education had no relevance to this case. next prosecutors called amy sieward, a firearms expert with the florida testimony of law enforcement. siewert testified through tests on trayvon martin s clothes, she was able to determine it was a contact shot that killed him. it is consistent with the muzzle of the firearm touching the outer sweatshirt and inner sweatshirt being in direct contact with the outer one, yes. reporter: the final witness, anthony gorgone, who examined dna samples on all of the evidence in the case. attorneys focused on the question of whose dna was found on zimmerman s gun. you were able to exclude trayvon martin as having dna on the pistol grip, is that correct? yes, trayvon martin was excluded as being a possible contributor to this mixture on the grip.
welcome back. live in sanford, florida, i m ashleigh banfield. the dna evidence in the spotlight yesterday at the george zimmerman second-degree murder trial. it s the csi part of this trial where the mystery goes down to the molecule. trayvon martin s fingernails, as well as the sweatshirt he was wearing the night he was killed and that gun zimmerman used to kill him, all featured heavily in the courtroom yesterday. and all of them tested in the effort to get to the bottom of what exactly happened in the scuffle between those two people that night. joining me to figure out what mattered and what really didn t in all of that very arcane information is defense attorney midwin charles, jean jecasarez,o
of zimmerman during the struggle as he contends. an expert testified wednesday about tests that she ran on the hoodie and a second sweatshirt martin was wearing. this is a close-up shot of the tests that i had generated with the lighter colored sweatshirt depicting a little better that you can see the tearing and the blackening of the fabric right around the hole. all right. are your findings consistent with the muzzle of the gun having been pressed into the dark hooded sweatshirt and then fired through both the dark hooded sweatshirt and the lighter colored sweatshirt? it is consistent with the muzzle of the firearm touching the outer sweatshirt and inner sweatshirt being in direct contact, yes. meshing the physical evidence with witness accounts of what happened on that rainy night in florida. the jurors are taking it all in
multimillion mansion had a secret apartment, and guess what was in the apartment, some interesting new evidence in his murder case. police found ammunition, ammunition that actually matched the caliber to kill his friend, oden lloyd. they also found a sweatshirt, one that matches the sweatshirt hernandez was pictured wearing on july 17th, that is the day lloyd was murdered. by now you know police are accusing hernandez of orchestrating that killing. he, for his part, through his attorneys, pleaded not guilty. plans to fight this tooth and nail. on july 4th, one of america s most enduring symbols, the statue of liberty. feast your eyes, it is open again to all of us. yes, tourists, buy your tickets and take the big walk up. the reason it s open now is because superstorm sandy had caused a lot of damage to the docks and the surrounding grounds. had to close it all down, do the renos and repairs. lady liberty herself didn t cause damage, but the repair