prosecution winding down the case and the zimmerman trial in black and white. my exclusive with the man that defended o.j. simpson and his trial. he ll tell me whether he thinks zimmerman should take the stand. beginning with martin savidge outside the court live in sanford, florida. martin, another day, another gripping day of what could be vital testimony, the gun, the dna and so on. tell me about what happened today. yeah, a lot of forensics, piers. experts and evidence. much of the afternoon talking about dna, specifically whose dna was found where or not found. and the focus became upon the gun. the gun that george zimmerman used to shoot 17-year-old trayvon martin. zimmerman said at one point trayvon was reaching for his gun and my have got a hand on it. so what did the dna testing find? take a listen. the dna you got from the
all i can say is it has worked well for us. the prosecution is almost done with the case, did they convince the jury with zimmerman s guilt. we bring there our guest, host of judge alex. welcome back to you judge al len lex. thank you. they have a proterrible trump card, the highly emotion testimony of both trayvon martin s mother and brother. how significant could that be in tipping the scales back in the favor of the prosecution case? i think it can be significant in the sense that it s going to be very emotional testimony. i no doubt it s going to have a huge impact on the jury to hear trayvon s mother testifying. i m sure she will probably break down as you imagine.
this case trayvon martin, if you believe what some of the testimony is, then it s still he, the aggressor could possibly under some circumstances claim self-defense. he could, as a matter of law claim that. so that would not be sufficient even if he were the agrandsons so the aggressor. right. let me turn to you brian copeland, you wrote a powerful book and talking about growing up in california and being stopped repeatedly by police officers. and this goes to the other part of this case that divide sod much opinion. in his mind, george zimmerman saw a young black boy, young man, walking around and thought trouble. he profiled him just as trouble. we know that from the way he described him in the call to police. in the same time you have what
from the moment they set eyes on you. if that s the defense we are in real, real trouble. yaeeah, i do agree with a lo of that. i agree there is something fund mentally wrong with the justice system that allows george zimmerman to play the cop he always wanted to be but wasn t, and to act like a vigilante, go after this guy unharmed minding his own business, had no harmful intent that we can see at all and ends up dead. i just don t think that you can be completely unaccountable for that. there has to be some form of justice for trayvon martin, doesn t there? absolutely. you have to look at the fact, as well, george zimmerman has lied. george zimmerman has lied. he says trayvon martin reached for his gun. he had to break the grasp off the gun and there is no dna of martin on the gun. if his head was banged against the concrete 25 times why did it
out. that s what most legal minds have been following here. think of it, the brother and on top of that you have trayvon martin s brother says yes, the voice you hear screaming for help is my son and that s just seconds before he dies. it would be so powerful for that jury to hear it. on top of that, there is nothing the defense can do. they are not about to cross examine a grieving mother, you just simply cannot. that s how the prosecution will end it and most likely let the jury think about it for saturday and sunday, over the weekend, piers. right, and the word i think martin is that this could all be over even as early as next week, early part of the week after. so this is coming to a dramatic end. martin savidge, thank you very much indeed. trayvon martin s parents have been sitting in the courtroom listening to testimony about the last moments of their son s lives, but will they take the stand? joining me is natalee. welcome back to you. thank you. i heard suggestion that