the autopsy. but then it is up to gandolfini s family whether or not they release those results to the public. nischelle, thank you. the trayvon martin trial is going to begin on monday. a jury has been seated in a second-degree murder case. this morning we re learning more about just who will decide george zimmerman s fate. to start with, all six of the jurors are women. cnn s pamela brown joins us with that. good morning. good morning to you, chris. this is a case that captured national attention. selecting a jury who hasn t already made up their minds of zimmerman s guilt or innocence has been no easy task. an usually small jury has been seated to begin the trial on monday. after almost two weeks of jury selection, six women, five of them white, chosen to decide the fate of george zimmerman in his second-degree murder trial. and is this jury panel acceptable to you, sir? yes, your honor.
ashleigh, i was in the courtroom, and i said this is an all female jury. 5 of the 6 are mothers. though this is a case of trayvon martin against george zimmerman, mothers are going to be sitting in the courtroom. talk to me about this frye hearing. a love the way you boil down complex legal terms and make them make sense. has do with analyzing a 911 call to try to determine whose voice it is screaming for help. and the frye hearing, i think either has come to an end or should be coming to an end, should determine the science of determining that. why is it significant? exactly. exactly. i want to tell you, ashleigh, the judge is working on the decision now. the order could come down at any time. but it s all about the science because the prosecution experts that they want to put on the stand, they say have undertaken established procedures to discern and tentatively conclude that that voice crying out in pain, knowing they re going to die, is trayvon martin s. the defense put on exp
the evidence as it comes out in the witness stand, starting monday. listen, brian, race has been a headline right since the get-go. five jurors described as white. one juror is described as, it s an unusual description, nothing formal, we don t have the questionnaires but described as black or hispanic. do you think this is a big issue because trayvon s parents don t seem to think so. i think it s a huge issue. i like this jury for the defense. i like the women on the jury. i like the fact that one of them used to have a concealed weapon permit. another one said daughturing ju selection process questions about what trayvon was doing out at that time of day. i like everything i see about the jury. if i were the defense lawyers i d be very pleased with the jury selected and not the least of which five are white that certainly helps, it s a predominantly white area. all of this taken together weighs heavily in favor of a good defense jury.
you know, sometimes a jury of your peers looks nothing like your peers. it s exactly what george zimmerman might be thinking as he stares down an all-female jury deciding his fate. charged with killing trayvon martin last year. until now the case focused mostly on race. but the big headline today is gender. six female jurors. two female the nates. and then two male alternates. five of the jurors are white in a case that is anything but black and white. cnn s legal correspondent jean casarez joins me live from sanford, florida. first, to the big elephant in the room. i don t think i ve ever seen an all-female panel. i haven t either. it s unusual, isn t it. it s very unusual. i ve never seen it. but there are six jurors, and it was a primarily female jury pool of 40. still, when it happened,
have two children in this case. we ve got trayvon martin who is a 17-year-old child and then we ve got george zimmerman who is a 29-year-old child. his parents are in the courtroom, too. a juror with a 20-year-old, a 28-year-old, a 27-year-old, a 24-year-old, another juror who has no kids, then we have a juror with a 13 and 1-year-old, and another one with a 28-year-old. they all have kids right in this range. joey, that s a tough one to gauge. great work, ashleigh, breaking all of that down. it s very important. and i think it s important because it can cut both ways. from one perspective, women, right, they have children and as a result of that, who do they side with? do they see and empathize and sympathize with trayvon martin? that could have been my child who was murdered on that night. at the same time, you know what? you mentioned it, ashleigh, george zimmerman, 29 years old. he also is a son. do they sympathize with him? you know you have to look at it you can never tell, you