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Criminal defense attorney. i want to get in a moment to what went on with trayvon martin s father and his testimony. but let s first talk about the toxicology, as we just heard from craig. lisa, i presume that this will be billed as a victory for the prosecution, because now that evidence comes in. wouldn t pot more instinctively maybe somebody seem more docile? right. intuitively, i think that makes trayvon martin seem less the aggressor. the defense has been fighting to get in, especially after the medical examiner changed his testimony last friday, it opened the door and they got to argue again. but isn t most people s common experience with marijuana that it makes you less aggressive, more relaxed. so i don t know, ultimately, if this is really going to help the defense at all. alex, are they misreading it? is the defense misreading this by wanting to get that into evidence? i don t think they re going ....
Became violent, because i think it kind of strains all credibility. however, in the opening statement and throughout the case, we ve heard the tape being made of the call to the police where george zimmerman says, there s a strange guy, he s walking between the houses, he looks like he s high on drugs or something. and this tends to corroborate that he wasn t just making stuff up because he was watching a black male. he was actually reporting something that, lo and behold, he does seem to be high on something. in fact, they did argue that in the video from the 7-eleven or whatever, he seemed to be swaying a little bit, which is consistent again. myrna, isn t there a risk, though, for the defense, that there could be blowback if this is viewed as nothing but an effort to sully the man who is no longer here? absolutely. because the amount of marijuana in his system, we don t know how much was in the system, as it is, and was that enough, in his system, to make him act out? and i can ....
More relaxed. so i don t know, ultimately, if this is really going to help the defense at all. alex, are they misreading it? is the defense misreading this by wanting to get that into evidence? i don t think they re going to get it in, for the purpose of arguing that he got high, so he became violent, because i think it kind of strains all credibility. however, in the opening statement and throughout the case, we ve heard the tape being plaid of the call to the police, where george zimmerman says, there s a strange guy, he s walking between the houses, he looks like he s high on drugs or something. and this tends to corroborate that he wasn t just making stuff up because he was watching a black male. he was actually reporting something that, lo and behold, he does seem to be high on something. in fact, they did argue that in the video from the 7-eleven or whatever, he seemed to be swaying a little bit, which is consistent again. myrna, isn t there a risk, though, for the defense, ....
Another. it s not going to be because of quantity. it s not because you presented seven and you presented two, so we ll go with seven. they might just wash and say, i don t think we know whose voice it is, but let s look at the other evidence. i fully recognize, it only matters what six women who are sitting in that courtroom are thinking of this case, but we re all paying very close attention. let me quickly ask each of you, as it stands today, how has the case gone in for the prosecution and the defense? myrna, you re first? i think for the prosecution, i think it s dpgone in well for the prosecution. many people beg to differ and think the prosecution s case is prominently circumstantial and there s no reasonable doubt. but i think paced on what they have, the information that they have, i think they put on the best case they could. i am one of the people who would beg to differ. i think the prosecution s case is very weak, not because of circumstantial, i have no problem with ....
this was totally unnecessary for the defense to put tracy martin on the stand. they already had two police officers saying that he denied it. this was not necessary at all. i think this is the second biggest blunder that the defense made, only after putting george zimmerman on hannity, saying that the killing of trayvon martin was god s plan. myrna, does it all come down to a jury s determination of who they believe that voice is? whoever the voice is was not the aggressor, and subsequently it could sway the entire outcome of the case or is that too dramatic? i think it s too dramatic. i think it s a number of issues, in the jury s determination of who the aggressor was. they have witnesses that said, we saw the lighter man on the bottom, and another witness said that we saw the lighter man i mean, the darker man on the top. so i think it s not just and i think that the defenses is belaboring that point, and as lisa said, it s not necessary. i think it did more good for the p ....