inadvertently helped his son s killer. in a surprise, the defense puts martin on the stand. and he does his best to push back. if i didn t tell him no, that wasn t trayvon, i think that i kind of pushes away from the table and just kind of shook my head and said i can t tell. so your words were i can t tell. something to that effect. but i never said no, that wasn t my son s voice. the defense then tries to prove martin is the aggressor in the fight. the man on top. so, you re saying trayvon martin had to physically be on top like this. i m saying that physical evidence is consistent with mr. martin being over mr. zimmerman. the prosecution actually helps the defense make its case. when prosecutor john guy
it sounds like tracy martin inadvertently helped his son s killer. in a surprise, the defense puts martin on the stand. and he does his best to push back. if i didn t tell him no, that wasn t trayvon, i think that i kind of pushes away from the table and just kind of shook my head and said i can t tell. so your words were i can t tell. something to that effect. but i never said no, that wasn t my son s voice. the defense then tries to prove martin is the aggressor in the fight. the man on top. so you re saying trayvon martin had to physically be on top like this. i m saying that physical evidence is consistent with mr. martin being over mr. zimmerman. the prosecution actually helps the defense make its case.
nothing that could have led to his own death, correct? reporter: and you did tracy martin, as well. and that one didn t seem to go so quite well. so your words were i can t tell? something to that effect, but i never said no, that wasn t my son s voice. well, i think that the state should have put him on. that s their witness. i think it was strange that they decided not to call the father of the victim. but they did so because of the very reason i had to call him, which was that tracy martin told two cops who testified that when he listened to the tape, that s not his son. reporter: that s not what he said on the stand. it is not. but it is what two cops said that he said no, that s not my son s voice. now, it s got to be extraordinarily difficult to be in tracy martin s shoes and sabrina fulton s shoes. they have to go through their
no. i hope that people think or i think i handled it properly and respectfully. i have handled, i think, 30 or so murder cases. and in every murder case, you re going to have some interaction with the victim s family. you certainly would hope that your son, trayvon martin, did nothing that could have led to his own death, correct? reporter: and you did tracy martin, as well. and that one didn t seem to go so quite well. so your words were i can t tell? something to that effect, but i never said no, that wasn t my son s voice. well, i think that the state should have put him on. that s their witness. i think it was strange that they decided not to call the father of the victim. but they did so because of the very reason i had to call him, which was that tracy martin told two cops who testified that when he listened to the tape, that s not his son. reporter: that s not what he said on the stand. it is not. but it is what two cops said that he said no, that s not my son s
georgie. reporter: the most compelling witnesses identifying the voice were the mothers of both the victim and the defendant. that scream, or yelling, do you recognize that? yes. who do you recognize that to be? trayvon benjamin martin. whose voice was that? mason, george. are you certain of that? because he s my son. the police say trayvon s father said the voice was not his son s but on the stand he disputed that. i pushed away from the away from the table and just kind of shook my head and said i can t tell. your words were i can t tell ? something to that effect but i never said no, that wasn t my son s voice. the lead investigators were the first to hear george zimmerman s version of events. advice serino interviewed zimmerman hours after the shooting and the next day walked him through a videotaped re-enactment.