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How do you take somebody on the ground the distance to make that recognizable? >> didnt you think he had a few seconds, 3.5 seconds of trayvon martins voice to work with. they need somewhere around 30, so 16 science just gone by now? >> what the state is doing, its clever of them. they lost that frye hearing. that was a cornerstone to have an expert say that was, in fact, george zimmermans voice, we predicted they had to change up their game plan. what they ended up doing is taking a witness aga...

Ashleigh, i was in the courtroom, and i said this is an all female jury. 5 of the 6 are mothers. though this is a case of trayvon martin against george zimmerman, mothers are going to be sitting in the courtroom. >> talk to me about this frye hearing. a love the way you boil down complex legal terms and make them make sense. has do with analyzing a 911 call to try to determine whose voice it is screaming for help. and the frye hearing, i think either has come to an end or should be coming to an ...

The judge said, okay, thats good then the defense, mark omara, objected because the pastor at the church where she was a receptionist had been very vocally supportive of trayvon martin, and omara again won that when that juror was stricken. again, well have an all-women jury. six jurors and four alternates. two more alternates than typical for a second degree murder trial and thats because judge debra nelson wanted to have a little insurance just in case this estimatees two to four week trial, s...

Tomorrow. thank you very much, michael. in a few hours, the george zimmerman trial will focus once again now on the battle over who is heard screaming for help in the background of a 911 tape from the night trayvon martin was killed. well get the latest on why this is back as a focus in this hearing. plus the supreme court strikes down arizonas controversial law, requiring voters to show proof of citizenship to vote. but still no decision on major cases like proposition 8, doma, affirmative ac...

Nbcs ron mott joins us from sanford. at the beginning before jury selection, ron there was a great focus on this tape. and whose voice and those were witnesses from the prosecution at the time. now this has shifted to the defense. >> right. hey there, tamryn. the defense has one more person that they would like to call. they were hoping to try to get this hearing done this frye hearing done before jury selection. the judge was pretty adamant we get started with jury selection a week ago today. a...

That sort. so the judge is going it make a determination once all the testimony in the frye hearing to determine whether she will allow the experts to testify before jury at trial. its a crucial ruling. we dont know if well get it tonight, but we expect once the hearing is wrapped, in due order the judge will make her ruling. >> why would you have the prosecution witness and the break to jury selection, now another break going back to the defense witness regarding these 911, this 911 call and wh...

Person with really motions, sensitive and caring and hes not a mythological monster as hes been made out to be. hes in very good hands. all of the evidence that kind of counters this notion that mr. martin was not a person who was capable of injuring him to the extent that he did is going to play very well in his favor. bill: you know, there is one observer who says you can put all the issues of race and society to the side, what the jurors have to figure out is what happened that night. >> corr...

They have brought 500 people to the court. they have not all come through so far this week but they have got to a panel of six and about four alternatinges and before t end of the week the judge is expected to stop the process for just a time so that they can continue the frye hearing, an important hearing to make a decision about whether the audio experts who may have heard or who may not have heard something on the 911 call with the screaming and the gunshot and their testimony will be allowed...

Will be allowed at all. the reason the tapes are so contentious is its clear to those who use science as a standard, including the fbi in the state of florida, its pretty much impossible to tell over a scream who is screaming. a scream is not a normal voice, speech is different than scream and i think that came forth in the frye hearing. bill: and the jurors will have to figure that out if they are allowed that evidence. how is your brother doing? he appears to be larger than we last saw him. is...

Believes this expert and what he is saying is true, trayvon martin, this 17-year-old unarmed kid was shot while begging for his life. this is not a self-defense case. its not a stand your ground case. its murder. >> give me the bottom line, lisa, on what weve heard so far in these hearings. where does it come down to you as one that has certainly done a lot of legal analysis. >> if i may put aside my legal hat for a moment, just hearing these screams, this boy saying stop, im begging you, and kn...