reporter: closing arguments the final stage in the trial against george zimmerman for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old trayvon martin. a teenager is dead. he is dead through no fault of his own. he is dead because another man made assumptions. reporter: prosecutor bernie de la rionda went into great detail pointing out inconsistencies in zimmerman s story from the national television interview he did to the video re-enactment conducted with police. the prosecution picked apart zimmerman s account of what happened. why is he able to yell if the defendant claims the victim was how he s going to talk or is he lying about that? look at the gun. look at the size of this gun. how did the victim see that in the darkness? reporter: in closing, de la rionda even elicited a reaction
time. reporter: in the end, judge debra nelson ruled against that option, but will allow jurors to consider manslaughter as a possible alternative to second-degree murder. so we saw prosecutors the other day go point by point with a slide show, powerpoint slide show also using those videos of george zimmerman making statements. we expect that defense attorney mark o mara may turn to that video re-enactment, the computer re-enactment of the crime scene that was evidence that he wanted to get into the trial. remember, judge debra nelson said it couldn t be evidence for the jury to take back into the jury room but instead could be used as a demonstrative tool. that s what we expect him to do today as he makes those closing remarks. george the advantage for the defense will be the jury never had to hear that animated recreation questioned by the prosecution. we ll see which way it plays out and what the defense will tee up
the attorneys will now present their final arguments. reporter: closing arguments the final stage in the trial against george zimmerman for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old trayvon martin. a teenager is dead. he is dead through no fault of his own. he is dead because another man made assumptions. reporter: prosecutor bernie de la rionda went into great detail pointing out inconsistencies in zimmerman s story from the national television interview he did to the video re-enactment conducted with police. the prosecution picked apart zimmerman s account of what happened. why is he able to yell if the defendant claims the victim was how he s going to talk or is he lying about that? look at the gun. look at the size of this gun. how did the victim see that in the darkness?
witness stand. but we all remember his interview with police. that interview was an audio recording. in this case you have his picture. you have a video re-enactment. it just i don t think the jury would fault him for not getting on the witness stand because they ve seen him and heard him already. if he thinks he s going to hurt his own case perhaps he wouldn t want to get on the stand. still to be decided, we ll get a quick break in while there s a pause in the action there in the george zimmerman trial. will george zimmerman testify for himself? right after this break. everybody has different investment objectives,
the moment about adam pollock and whether he should be called back as a rebuttal witness for the prosecution. there s a debate going on at the moment. mark o mara is arguing the case. we ll update viewers as things move on. jonathan capehart, you ve been watching proceedings today. we were talking offcamera about the scene of the mannequin where the prosecution used this mannequin to try to make the point of how difficult it would be if the defense argument is right that trayvon martin was in a powerful position, above george zimmerman, how difficult it would for george zimmerman to access his firearm. well, you know i would call this, martin, the bloom question. lisa has been asking this question for a few days now. how is it possible or how was it possible for george zimmerman to reach his gun when he said in the video re-enactment that the gun holster was on his back, behind him, under his pants,