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Same fireworks today that we saw the other day. so far it looked so good, wolf, you know, people seem to be smiling and hopefully they got some rest and hopefully a smooth wednesday. we do know that court will start up here. within a few minutes well have a hearing without the jury present and then the jury will return around 10:00 a.m. eastern time and thats when we expect to get start would testimony, again. >> the judges rulings on these two issues over the next hour could really be significa...

The decision to make -- >> all right. were getting ready for a decision. the judge debra nelson, she doesnt want to prolong this hearing on whether or not this computerized animation should be allowed to be shown to the jurors as evidence. she wants to wrap it up and shes going to do so. and it sounds like shes pretty skeptical about what the defense wants. but lets bring in ashley banfield, our cnn anchor whos been watching and covering this trial from sanford, florida. also sunny hostin our le...

Witnesses. well see what happens. the judge is now taking a look at that animation. shes seeing it. we, unfortunately, are not seeing that animation. now, lets discuss whats going on. george howell is on the scene for us. hes our reporter. hes been there. she is no-nonsense. she doesnt want the jurors, these six women, five of them mothers, theyve been gone from their families for a long time. she wants this trial to move on. shes not very happy about it taking so long for them to make their arg...

Courtroom right now. there you see george zimmerman, as he has been every day. wear now in the third week of this trial. hes having a little conversation with his attorney there, mark omara is to our back. we anticipate the judge will make a decision. i dont know if she is going to make it now or later on whether or not that animation, that reenactment that the defense would like to see admitted as evidence is going to be allowed or not. they spent about 90 minutes discussing that this morning. ...

That didnt work out so well. yeah, you can tell that, you know, even prosecutors, the defense, may not be so hot on the technology, but it seems that they get it working from time to time. it seems they are going to take some time to figure this out right now. im watching them take the computer up. >> right. they are going to show the judge on the little laptop there the animation that daniel schumaker created and hes standing there in front of that laptop, so they cant get it up on the screen. ...

Prejudicial, then theyll bring the jury back in and play the animation or show the stills. >> all right. i think they are getting ready to show those stills or animations. if they are, id be interested in seeing them. they are looking up at that screen over there. maybe well show that to our viewers if we can. lets step in, for a moment, see what they are talking about. this is an important piece of potential evidence that may or may not be allowed in the courtroom. >> one screen off, that one, ...

Document to a witness or using even a document camera. we now have in almost every courtroom around america very sophisticated audio/visual type of equipment so an animation like this can be projected to the jury and the judge and everyone else can see it. with that kind of technology, youre going to run into problems from time to time. >> let me bring in another decision the judge, debra nelson, made last night. an important decision late in the day after the jurors were dismissed. the judge de...

Evidence, the prosecution says, not so fast. >> yeah, im surprised that the judge is considering it to this extent, just because it really is speculative and oftentimes judges dont allow these kinds of recreations, because youre kind of stepping into the province of the jury. the jury is supposed to determine, after hearing all of the witnesses and after looking at all the evidence, what happened that night. they arent supposed to be viewing it through the prism of some sort of computer animatio...

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Youre looking, by the way, at leiv pictu live pictures right the now from the george zimmerman second-degree murder trial as attorneys argue over the use of animated reenactment of the shooting. theyre showing the judge, right now, judge debra nelson, the reenactme reenactment. there you see in the middle of the screen, daniel schumacher, he put it all together. they wanted to show it up on the big screen, they couldnt figure out how to do that. theyve got some major technical glitches there. so...