distinguish screams for help. there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that is george zimmerman. and i wish to god i did not have that ability to understand that. here with reaction, rod wheeler, heather hansen and remi spencer. we want to get to the voice and why it was so important on the tape. first, breaking news, late this afternoon, the judge allowed the fact that marijuana was in trayvon martin s system at the time of his death. why is that important? i think it says more about zimmerman than trayvon martin. pot doesn t tend to make you more violent. what zimmerman said on the 911 tape, it looks like he s been doing drugs.
animation which could have an amazing impact on a jury, only one side, how something like that is allowed. well, lets give the jury make credit for intelligence. they are going to understand that it s one side s version of the events. when any expert witness takes the stand, jurors understand this is a paid expert, paid by one side or the other to attain this position. he would take the stand, everybody would understand that, he would state how he put this together based on information given by defense. they would cross-examination and say look at this fact, the positioning of the bodies, the bullet trajectory. that s based on what zimmerman told you. isn t it true zimmerman said in the inconsistent statement this is what happened. we could have a lengthy cross-examination about it. technical scientific information is routinely admitted into courtrooms. it doesn t just have to come
inconsistencies with what zimmerman s version has been. the question is whether or not zimmerman will get on the stand. i just don t it doesn t seem likely to me. i don t think it is going to happen but you just never know. do you think that having both trayvon s mother and then having zimmerman s mother say it was her son, the goal of that seemed to me to kind of have the two cancel each other out because it was such an emotional moment in the trial? i think that was the purpose but from my perspective as a prosecutor and as a member of the community i feel like it kind of leans more towards trayvon. it is his mother on the stand. there is so much surrounding her testimony. there is so much surrounding the emotions and her reaction to having to listen to that tape and watch it. and then to testify and say that that is my son whose voice that
zimmerman himself has african-american root, the family released this photo exclusively to a cnn legal analyst, showing zimmerman s grandmother who is half black and his grandfather. that little girl on his lap is george zimmerman s mother, still, none of that squares with what zimmerman s cousin told police in this audio recording. i was afraid that he had done something because the kid was black because growing up, they ve always made him and his family have always made statements that they don t like black people if they don t act like white people. his immediate family has always stayed on message. when this is all over they hope people will conclude that george zimmerman is a nice guy. his father likes to point out george grew up in a close family with one brother and one sister raised in a religious catholic home. he was an altar boy for seven or eight years. the priests thought so much of him, his father says he gave him
is a tremendous amount of evidence that george is absolutely not a racist in any sense of the word. in an effort to prove that zimmerman has african-american roots, the family released this photo exclusively to a cnn legal analyst showing zimmerman s grandmother who is half black and his grandfather. that little girl is george zimmerman s mother. still, noenl of that squares with what zimmerman s cousin told police in that audio recording. i was afraid that he was going to [ inaudible ] because he was black. because growing up, they ve always him and his family have always made statements that they don t like black people if they don t act like white people. reporter: but his immediate family has always stayed on message. when this is all over, they hope people will conclude that george zimmerman is a nice guy. his father likes to point out george grew up in a close family with one brother and one sister