said martin died one to three minutes after the shot. bao explained he changed his mind three weeks ago, due to a similar autopsy. whether it s from one to three minutes, from one to ten minutes, he was going to die. yes. and never recover from this gunshot wound, correct? he had no chance. reporter: late this afternoon the state rested its case. defense witness number one, gladys zimmerman, the defendant s mother. she and the court again listened to those 911 screams. do you know whose voice that was screaming in the background? yes, sir. and whose voice was that? my son george. and are you certain of that? because he s my son. zimmerman s uncle then took the stand, as witness number two, and he also identified the voice screaming for help in the background of that 911 tape as his nephew, not trayvon martin. the defense of george zimmerman resumes here in sanford 9:00 a.m. monday morning.
martin, who he calls his father, that day, shortly after the shooting death of trayvon martin in the city of sanford s mayor s office and he did not he wasn t absolutely certain on the first listening to that recording that it was trayvon martin with hundred% certainty. in fact, couple of days late her was interviewed by a miami news station, and they played the tape again for him, and he also said he could not quite identify that with 100% certainty as trayvon martin. so, mark o mara, zimmerman s attorney, pounced on this opportunity because for the prosecution, the brother said, yes, i do believe that is trayvon martin screaming in the background. but on cross-examination, mark o mara launched at the inconsistency with his initial reaction. take a listen. heard it in the mayor s
today, in me on the prosecution side. we will do i ll say-you say. i ll say from the prosecution s perspective, you say from the defense. you good with that? i m good with that. let s play. i say zimmerman got an a in class that taught florida s stand your ground law. okay? the professor says there s no chance he didn t know about it. that means you knew what was going on that night. that means that s why your gun was loaded and had a bullet in the chamber. that means when you approached trayvon martin, you knew how you could get away with this, which means you had a plan. if you had a plan, it was an evil plan. if you had evil in your intentions, that makes you a second degree murderer. you say i say, when did we start proving that defendants are liars because they re straight a students in law enforcement classes? that seems a little we re in a very interesting moment here that the prosecution is actually attempting to prove that zimmerman is a liar because he was a good st
part of the lesson he taught was practical defense law with a special focus on florida laws like stand your ground and zimmerman aced the class. he was probably one of the better students in the class. reporter: zimmerman s defense team argued his past training and education had no relevance to this case. next, prosecutors called amy siewert, a firearms expert with te florida darmt epartment of l enforceme enforcement. she said she was able to determine it was a contact shot that killed him. it was consistent with the firearm touching the outer sweatshirt and inner sweatshirt being in direct contact with the outer one, yes. reporter: the final witness, anthony gorgone, a crime lab analyst who examined dna evidence in this case and questioned whose dna was found on zimmerman s gun. you were able to exclude
prosecutors are trying to paint. a wannabe cop who went too far and then less than forthcoming about how well he knew the law on national tv. prior to this night, this incident, had you even heard stand your ground? you had never heard about it before? reporter: captain alexis francisco carter said part of the course he taught had practical defense laws like florida s stand your ground and zimmerman aced the class. he was probably one of the better students in the class. reporter: zimmerman s defense team argued his past training and exhibitions had no relevance to this case. and education had no relevance to this case. next, they called a firearms expert. siewert testified through tests on martin s clothes it was a contact shot that killed him. it is consistent with a