by the name of dr. shiping bao. they heard him testify he was alive one to ten minutes after that fatal gunshot to his heart. let s go back to martin savidge in sanford, and, martin, this witness, look, he s a scientist. he was rigid in his answering but he seemed to change his mind quite a bit. reporter: did he. in fact, he seemed to wander all over the place, and he was on the stand actually for much of the day despite talking about the drama of the mothers. the focus really was on the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on trayvon martin. and i think the real surprise at least to many of us who have followed this story is we know, of course, trayvon martin was shot through the heart. i think a lot of people just assume you die instantly. and this medical examiner pointed out very, very poignantly that he didn t think that was the case. that the young man continued to live for some time.
so there are and that was significant let me jump in. that was significant because we know we saw in the police tape, he has said that trayvon martin said to him basically you got me, and he said he held his hands down. we know trayvon martin s hands were found under his body. does anyone disagree with larry? does anyone think that dr. bao hit it out of the park as the state s final witness? no. crickets. no, faith? he didn t hit it out of the park. obviously, he was a very necessary witness for the prosecutors because they needed to highlight several things with his testimony, where the injuries were on trayvon, the trajectory of the bullet, and also the lack of injuries on trayvon s hands, for example. so they are going to use several key points that he made in his testimony today in their closing
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it was certainly delivered in a way that almost sent chills through you, brooke. let me talk about this, martin. thank you. mark nejame, let s bring mark back in and hln legal analyst, correspondent jean casarez, faith jenkins, and defense attorney danny cevallos and on the phone with me larry kobilinsky. you have testified in a number of dna cases and you said this dr. bao was the worst witness ever. why? well, it was an unmitigated disaster for the prosecution. to end with dr. bao, it couldn t be worse. for example, he prepared a script which he brought with him which would describe how he would answer potential questions. he didn t even realize that a document like that is discoverable. it s a very amateurish move. but i think the important point
the state didn t prove its case. there s not enough evidence to take this to the jury. these motions are always made. they are rarely, rarely granted. because the evidence is looked at in the light most favorable to the government. so i suspect that that s something that may happen as well. and after that and those motions sometimes are very quick. and sometimes they take a long time. so depending on how long that takes, then we may see the beginning of the defense case. martin, what do you think of this final witness the state called today? this dr. bao, associate medical examiner? a lot of times in cases like this, obviously you want to have that final witness that really hits it out of the park for depending on your side now it s the state, right? do you feel like dr. bao was able to do that or was his testimony deluded after all the cross-examination, the back and forth with don west? yeah. it fumbled and bumbled along the way. that s clearly not what they hoped for. i was su