okay, breathe in and breathe out. okay, now, are you having an asthma attack? no, my wife, my wife is on the floor. she s bleeding all over the place. the blood spatter was completely up the one wall where the side of her head was, then on the opposite wall where her head was a good five to six feet. blood spatter was all over the desk. if flew underneath a desk to a wall and a chair. it was very gruesome. when the ambulance crew arrived, they pronounced kathy dead at the scene. he had been beaten to death. there wasn t an injury that was caused by one blow or two blows to the head. this was something heavy that created these injures. in between the first blow and the one that eventually killed
it not? the fact that there wasn t an injury at all doesn t necessarily mean there was a reasonable apprehension of fear. you don t have to wait until you re almost dead before you can defend yourself? no, you probably don t do that. a rare point where we saw george zimmerman laugh. sunny, that witness was brought in by the prosecution so george zimmerman knew about self-defense rules and stand your ground, but the defense was able to use him to kind of bolster their case, as well. well, the defense certainly used the witness to instruct the jury a bit about stand your ground, but i don t know that that was the biggest take away. i think what was interesting was that george zimmerman, in his interview with sean was asked by sean had you ever heard of stand your ground? he said no. he repeated no. yet, this witness says well, actually, i talked about it all the time in class. i talked about it practically,
topic of discussion in the class and something the defense tried to blunt by turning the focus to the fear they said zimmerman felt that night. on the issue of injuries, though. when you talk about that with the class and your understanding of the law is that the focus is what s going on in the person s mind, not whether they have actually been injured. it s the fear of the injury, is it not? it s imminent injury. or excuse me, imminent fear. so the fact alone that there isn t an injury doesn t necessarily mean that the person did not have a reasonable apprehension of fear. the fact that there were injuries have a tendency to show or support that that person had a reasonable apprehension of fear, but the fact that there wasn t an injury at all doesn t necessarily mean there was a
because it ended up at best helping the defense. and sunny, zimmerman s criminal defense attorney on the stand. want to play part of his testimony. on the issue of injuries, though, when you talk about that with the class and your understanding of the law is that the focus is what is going on in the person s mind not whether they have actually been injured, it s the fear of the injury, is it not? the fact that there wasn t an injury at all doesn t necessarily mean there was a reasonable apprehension of fear. you don t have to wait until you re almost dead before you can defend yourself? no, you probably don t do that. a rare point where we saw george zimmerman laugh. sunny, that witness was brought in by the prosecution so george zimmerman knew about self-defense rules and stand your ground, but the defense was able to use him to kind of bolster their case, as well. well, the defense certainly used the witness to instruct the jury a bit about stand your ground, but i don
necessarily mean that the person did not have a reasonable apprehension of fear. the fact that there were injuries have a tendency to show or support that that person had a reasonable apprehension of fear. but the fact that there wasn t an injury at all doesn t necessarily mean that there was a reasonable apprehension of fear. you don t have to wait until you re almost dead before you can defend yourself? no, i would advise you probably don t do that. [ laughter ] back with the panel. sunny hostin, marcia clark, mark nejaime and mark geragos. mark, this is what we were talking about yesterday when you guys were arguing over the extend of his injuries. as long as george zimmerman walls scared by the extent of his injuries, whether or not those injuries really were something that were as serious as maybe he thought they were doesn t matter, what matters is what he felt about them, zplekt