as it comes available to us at cnn as we follow that story. let me take you back to the george zimmerman murder trial now out of sanford, florida, because the jury heard a key witness for the prosecution. this associate medical examiner by the name of dr. shiping bao. they heard him testify he was alive one to ten minutes after that fatal gunshot to his heart. let s go back to martin savidge in sanford, and, martin, this witness, look, he s a scientist. he was rigid in his answering but he seemed to change his mind quite a bit. reporter: did he. in fact, he seemed to wander all over the place, and he was on the stand actually for much of the day despite talking about the drama of the mothers. the focus really was on the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on trayvon martin. and i think the real surprise at least to many of us who have followed this story is we know, of course, trayvon martin was shot through the heart. i think a lot of people just assume you die instantly.
and countered with the cross-examination of defense, but i think for jurors to hear that, there s no way that it would not have an impact. it was certainly delivered in a way that almost sent chills through you, brooke. let me talk about this, martin. thank you. mark nejame, let s bring mark back in and hln legal analyst, correspondent jean casarez, faith jenkins, and defense attorney danny cevallos and on the phone with me larry kobrinsk. you have testified in a number of dna cases and you said this dr. bao was the worst witness ever. why? well, it was an unmitigated disaster for the prosecution. to end with dr. bao, it couldn t be worse. for example, he prepared a script which he brought with him which would describe how he would answer potential questions.
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same. [ swearing in witness ] you may proceed. thank you, your honor. i will give you a minute to get your file. you can state your name for the record, sir. good morning. my name is shiping bao.
correct. and if it was not your son screaming, if it was, in fact, george zimmerman, then you would have to accept the probability that it was trayvon martin who caused his own death. correct? i don t understand your question. if you were to listen to that tape and not hear your son s voice, that would mean that it would have been george zimmerman ea s voice, correct? and not hear my son screaming? is that what you re asking? yes, ma am. i heard my son screaming. and you certainly had to hope that was your son screaming even before you heard it, correct? i didn t hope for anything. i just simp rly listened to the tape. sybrina fulton there on the stand. tough cross-examine to watch there. we re going to go back to that with our legal experts. also, we just saw this associate medical examiner, dr. shiping