been proven. if it hasn t been proven as the instruction tells you, it is just not there. you can t consider it. you can t fill in the gaps. you can t connect the dots for the state attorney s office in this case. you re not allowed to. paul, how effective is that? how effective is it to keep reminding a jury not to make assumptions? i think it was very effective in the case like this where the jury doesn t have the entire story. there are gaps in the story. there are inconsistencies in the story. i think it is a very smart defense strategy to point out to the jury don t fill in those gaps. don t make up what you think might have happened or what could have happened because that obviously leads them to evaluating the cases a little more stringently and puts them in a position where they re more likely to come up with a perspective of reasonable doubt or not guilt think this case so i thought it was very effective to point them in that directions
that 911 call, it doesn t necessarily mean they will be able to identify that voice with 100% certainty. after five days filled with headline making witness, colorful language and photos the zimmerman trial is starting to take an emotional toel toll. reporter: one week of graphic and at times disturbing testimony at both sides are showing sign of strain. trayvon martin s parents removed to tears on the first day, listening to opening statements. the very next day, they had to walk out when the court saw pictures of their son s lifeless body. it was particularly hard on martin s father. i thought they would give us advanced notice the state would be using some very sensitive pictures for that to come up on the screen very live really, really brought back a memory he had to walk out on. reporter: for trayvon s mother, the most difficult moment was the sound heard in
identification goes, understanding the frailties of this particular tape, understanding what you ve said is the more scenetistic computer assists mathd that doesn t provides here, do i understand yourful? that is correct. because there is no way for the computer to contain all sorts of in the futures coming from the voice. it s analyzing. this is just a one shot analysis. so if you ve only got that one shot, the best person to do it is someone who has heard that voice under similar circumstances? that is correct. very briefly. at the fbi lab, you don t limit your analysis just to the
the case. sunny, you ve been listening to this testimony about 20 or 30 minutes. can you make sense of it yet? i think we also need to take a step back. we all know about the fry hearing. we all know this information. the jury doesn t. the jury is listening to this with fresh ears and watching this witness with fresh eyes. that s the first point. the second point is we know that this witness is talking about voices, talking about older voices versus younger voices and we also have been told that perhaps someone from trayvon martin s family may get on the witness stand and identify the voice as that of trayvon, the voice that was yelling for help. this kind of testimony coming from an expert could support that kind of testimony. i don t think it s so out there that this person is getting on the witness stand, an expert, having been with the fbi for so
out front a major terror plot on u.s. soil foiled. a senior administration official tells me this was international murder for hire. here s what we ve been told. two men charged in an alleged plot to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador to the united states. one is a naturalized u.s. citizen in custody and identified as 56-year-old mondaysor ar bab si ar. he appeared in a courthouse this afternoon. he did not enter a plea. according to the complaint that we read, he planned for someone to kill the saudi arabian ambassador at one of his favorite restaurants in washington, d.c. he told an informant that mass casualties didn t matter, saying, if the hundred go with him, expletive, them. the plot itself is a work of intrigue. it began this spring when he met in mexico with a d.e.a. informant posing as a member of a violent drug cartel. over the next few months, he got the informant to agree to assassinate the ambassador for a fee o$1.5 million. he also wanted an attack on t