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Sense they dont have -- youre not going to bring a traditional murder case. you may have the violation of someones rights, things like that and its one of the few times that i actually agree with toobin. this is a hard case to have somebody revisit a year after the fact forensically, especially if youre going to have somebody change their opinion of what happened before. ive been in that situation before and thats just an incredible amount for a defense lawyer if someone changes their opinion af...

Below the nipple. the bullet hooks up and around, slams into the wrist, shatters the radius, exits the wrist and proceeds at a 45 degree downward angle into his left thigh, and thats the single bullet theory. and you have a picture there which i understand, geraldo -- >> youre saying that forensically its impossible? >> thats the governments experiment, geraldo. look. look at that picture. it shows the bullet second from the right, is a bullet that broke a rib of a goat. and the bullet at the fa...

>> it might be important forensically to know did you have sex with him that day in the bed or anywhere in the apartment? >> on the couch. >> the couch. okay. before he showed you the body or after? >> after. >> was it intercourse or was it oral sex? >> they have this young girl in a small room with a video camera going on above her head knowing everything they know about interrogations becoming public, the cops asked her if they had sex after laura arrived at pitonyaks apartment. you can almost...

Marsha clark and criminal defense attorney danny and mark c garagos. what do you think the opt is for a lesser charge? >> there is no question the jury will be charged on second degree and -- second degree murpder and manslaughter. i mean, thats a lesser included offense and the way i read the statute, it has to be done and i suspect that the government is going to request it. there is evidence to support manslaughter. so this jury will have a choice of what to convict george zimmerman on. if th...

Raining, it wasnt nighttime, you didnt have certain other physical pieces of evidence in the scene that were present. to make this relevant and in or order to make it more probative you have to show that. he doesnt have it. im surprised he hasnt been refused admission of this reenactment before but it may be because he hasnt entered it into a criminal trial before -- >> exactly. >> danny, you think thats the case? in this video you see trayvon martin hitting george zimmerman first. thats -- i me...

Pictures of trayvon martin holding a gun, perhaps conducting a transaction to buy a gun. you know, i dont know that this type of evidence comes in. i mean, if the judge gave any indication of where she was leaning pretrail, he said pretail, no, no, no, this is not coming in and now they are revisiting it at the end of the case. of course, they would like to get this information in. first of all, its not real vent and more prejudicial -- >> sunny? >> yes, mark. >> i didnt hear the arguments. did ...

To arguments. she was being optimistic on that. the arguments have been going back and forth. she said shell reconvene tomorrow. in other ways, the trial speedy. the defense plans to rest tomorrow but not before calling more witnesses to bolster the case while george zimmerman suffering a life-threatening beating while crying for help shot trayvon martin. lets give you a sense of what happened today. >> reporter: dr. vincent di maio said the bullet hole in trayvon martins clothing and body prove...

Home. were talking about some -- even though he says its not a complex case and hes probably right from a forensic stand point, talking about the operations of the heart and how it affects the brain and how long you can live. the idea of reaching into your heart and yanking it out. even though none of us have seen that, except maybe a movie, we can imagine that and that drives it home. it under skorcores the importan of having an expert that knows what hes talking about. if they cant communicate...

Over the person doing the shooting, and that the clothing is 2 to 4 inches away from the person firing. >> reporter: di maio countered the medical examiners testimony for the prosecution who said martin could have survived and suffered up to ten minutes after she was shot. di maio said shot in the heart, martin would have been unconscious in 10 to 15 seconds. >> hes going to be dead within 1 to 3 minutes after being shot in this case. >> reporter: finally, demayo testified that zimmermans injuri...

Another case. he reconstructed a poor quality security camera video showing a pedestrian hit by a vehicle. see how the wireless motion capture suit captures the movements at every location. he uses accelrometers to get the most accurate movements. he used to use a tape measure and lasers. now he creates a series of points at a scene, sometimes as many as 500, all in 3 d space. s he says its the most accurate on the market. >> the laser follows me around, so it only takes one person to operate. >...