family s lawyer says she was told her son was legally allowed to possess the weapon. her mother did not give her name or her son ace name and police didn t ask for any more information. miguel vega, former detective, says he doesn t want to pass judgment, but sets if he had taken the call i would have probably tried to inquire more up information, names, address, a bit more information to, you know, to warrant a further investigation, a further look into it. reporter: allen police tell cnn they always asked if a person wants to give more information, wants to file a formal report, or wants them to investigate further, but they say in this case they re not certain what happened, because the mother gave so many information. one lawyer for the suspect s family tells cnn this was not a volumetively, erratic behaving kid.
taking two cars and an 18-wheeler down with it, and the silver bridge, connecting west virginia and ohio, collapsed in 1967 when the traffic on the bridge exceeded the maximum weight limb. 46 people died. luckily in this case, the only casualty is time. it really is fortunate that nobody was injured other even killed. one of those 911 callers was a truck driver that drove over the bridge with a full load. now, at this point experts don t know how this happened. they are bringing in a team from around the country to figure that out and come up with a game plan on how to fix it. people living here have been told to be patient and be ready for traffic problems. they say this bridge could be out of commission for up to a year. ted rowlands, cnn, green bay, wisconsin. a mother s persistence helped find her son ace killer years after he died. that s ahead.
expect him to say? absolutely, but let s compare that to the victim s mother. how effective was her testimony? we all know that she was good to say it was her son ace voice. we expected her to say that, we knew she was going to say that. she would have been a great witness as the last witness, not the last witness the prosecution call, the medical examiner, who turned out to be much more beneficial to the defense, became very cross with the people examining him, and didn t allow the prosecution to go out with a bang. the defense did it the way you should do it. we re telling a story. as trial lawyers, as people in the courtroom, we want to captivate the attention of the jurors in the box, and we close with this emotional witness. there may have been other witnesses who could testify, but they closed with the man, a magistrate judge, he has credentials in the community. we expected him to say it was george s voice. we humanized george zimmerman