of expertise, the expert writes a report and the reports are e changed. so the defense knows what this lady is going to testify about, and the prosecutors know what the defense expert, if he or she testifies will testify about. we haven t seen those reports so we don t know where she s going. thus far she has very professionally, methodically, and without controversy related what she discovered. this bullet came out of this gun, and made this hole in this clothing. she may also be anticipating defense expert testimony that trayvon was on top of mr. zimmerman at the time zimmerman fired the shot. she hasn t got even there yet but she may be going there, in which case she would give an opinion the opposite of that. now how can two experts looking at the same scientific data come up with opposite opinions? that s what you have experts for. reasonable minds can differ. yes they usually do when you are paying them they do what the state wants them to do within
here is mark o mara on cross-examination for the defense. let s listen. talk about the shirts themselves. you said the shirts would have lined up, corrects? yes. obviously there was one hole-in-one and hole in the other. when you took the shirts and lined them up they match, correct? you re not suggesting that the shirts are in any particular configuration on the body, are you? no. they were where they were but certainly the bullet went through both shirts where they were lined up with the bullet hole? yes. okay. and, let s talk about the actual, when you say contact. mr. guy suggested that pressed into. i think you corrected him to say, it was touching, correct? yes. there was no evidence, for example, that would show up that you would take a, the gun muzzle
not relevant as to whether or not he is guilty of this crime. and the prejudicial effect arguably outweighs the probative value. let me take it a step further here. the defense nevertheless uses the ruling but uses it to try to convince the jury, hey, there is nothing sinister about wanting to be a police officer. it s a noble endeavour. not oit y did the defense astute lee do that, the defense did what you and i were taught in law school years ago, turn them into your witness. get opinion testimony out of his mouth help fell to you. when defense counsel says to this professor of law, tell us how scanned your browned works you don t have to be bleeding to death before you can defend yourself, do you? oh, no, no, no you only need to have reasonable apprehension. thank you, that s what we needed to hear. he did it a little longer than how i ve just done it. i was surprised that they
danger of serious bodily injury or death. ified defense, it s not pure excuse. that s right. sometimes i think that the government here is so assau noing zimmerman s thodid hts and waysf expressing himself, because they want to goed of him into getting on the witness stand. they d love nothing more than to have him sit down as shawn hannity here but here under oath and owe blind to them the truth with all of these inconsistencies. on the other hand they have gotten so many versions of his events out there, all of which help them. there may be inconsistencies in thug. if he has a reasonable but mistaken belief that he is in jeopardy of his life i can use deadly force, which he did. on balance it s been eight days now of testimony. the prosecution s case. most of the witnesses have been more beneficial to the defense than the prosecution in your judgment? not even a close call.
trouble. gregg: faith, what do you think? i think this is part of the prosecutor s narrative they want to argue in their closing statements. not only george zimmerman lied about this and other things to completely discredit his story, but also to show he was an overzealous wannabe cop and what they said in their opening statement. this is just something to follow up on that. gregg: yeah. he wanted to be a police officer. he tried. he failed. he took all of these criminal justice classes. and as a result he is this overzealous neighborhood watch guy patrolling his neighborhood with a loaded gun. gregg: you know on cross-examination, ashley, this professor nicely explained the jury instruction on self-defense. that you don t have to retreat. if you re in fear of imminent serious bodily injury or death you re allowed to use deadly force some that these witnesses were great. gregg: that is helpful for the defense, isn t it? definitely. they were great for the defense. we got to h