moments. gordon pleasant appeared in court by skype. first there was some problems but then came the digital demons. his phone getting signals. it s someone calling. reporter: as his name people began calling him disrupting the testimony. the judge ordered it to stop with the defense catching on to what was happening. there is a really good chance we re being toyed with. reporter: in court the judge announced the state planed to rest and that won t happen until at least friday after the 4th of july holiday. martin savidge, cnn sanford, florida. let s dig deeper to the testimony in the trial so far. legal analyst and former federal prosecutor sunny hosten and former los angeles deputy district attorney and rachel night, also criminal defense
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martin savidge, cnn sanford, florida. let s dig deeper to the testimony in the trial so far. legal analyst and former federal prosecutor sunny hosten and former los angeles deputy district attorney and rachel night, also criminal defense attorney jose bias and how the criminal justice system works and sometimes doesn t. what do you make of the poor forensic evidence you just heard. they said the gun was pressed up against trayvon martin s chest and that s different from the autopsy. it s a contradiction as to the distance the muzzle was from the clothing and body f. you think about it carefully. the bullet has to penetrate two items of clothing before it hits the body. now medical examiners looking at the body and looking for
so i think, and mark doesn t need my advice but i think he should book end it with those two witnesses, if they rest with those two witnesses friday. do you see the defense putting on a ro bust defense for many days. no, i don t. i don t think they need to. the defense has been able to try their case within the prosecution s case. so i do think it will be relatively brief. i think they will rest next week. sunny hosten, do you agree with that? absolutely, absolutely. i dong think the defense will put on a long case, at all, two or three witnesses. we could be looking at a verdict i think by next week. jose bias, what do you think from the defense or prosecution next friday? i agree with most of the panel. i think they will call the family, the defense will counter with tracy martin but i think the defense will put on dr.
trayvon martin. one says he was doing what he was supposed to do. was he carrying it properly? properly, if i was ready to defend myself, you bet. reporter: he says this gun is designed strictly for personal protection, one of the cheaper guns on the market selling for between 300 and $400, ready to be concealed and ready to shoot. it s called carrying hot. you recommend to your students to carry this one hot? absolutely. reporter: because it has a safety feature, an extra long trigger pull that prevents accidental firing but watching this trained marksman, that s not all it does. -off missed. i know. it s not real tective. reporter: it s also effective in close quarters, something else noted. have you heard a prosecutor raise these points before? no, i have not.