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For her loss. >> reporter: both parents seen crying during testimony. martins mother here with her eyes closed and looking away, as jurors were shown graphic pictures of her sons lifeless body. the main focus of fultons testimony will no doubt be her account of whose fake cries for help she believes are on the tape. judge deborah nelson ruled out forensic testimony from voice recording experts but left the door open for someone more familiar with the persons voice to identify it. someone like a ...

Thats their job. and my job is to defend george and then the jurys job is to decide who did the better -- you know, whether or not the state proved their case. well get there. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> yes, certainly do. a number of them. >> reporter: i think some people were surprised when you questioned miss fulton. were you surprised by that? were you expecting to say anything to her? >> this is what i do. so every murder case i have, ive talked to the murdered persons mother or father o...

Theyll learn the prosecution rested and then well hear the judges decision on the judgment of acquittal, asking the judge to toss out the against against zimmerman. take a listen. >> if you looked at evidence in the light most favorable to the state you have equivocal statements, jahvaris fulton, who says im not sure, and then miss fulton, who, though she did testify that is her sons voice, you have to take it in context. you have to understand reasonably why she would say that, how she would sa...

Witness, miss fulton, basically told everyone in the whole wide world, i am a mother, i know when my son is screaming, crying, and uttering things and i heard it and thats what im testifying to. >> let me go back to lisa on this point. it seems to me if the defense team now recognizes that the mothers testimony was powerful, do they now seek to extend the time between today, friday, the 5th, and when they have the jury actually deliberate? it seems to me youd want to get that emotional impact to...

Important events today. >> reporter: chris, you just mentioned that evidence locker. that held up court for about half-an-hour. basically it appears as if whoever had the key to that evidence locker couldnt find it so we had to call a locksmith to get the evidence locker re-opened. sybrina fulton, of course, as you mentioned was the first witness called today. her testimony was interrupted because they needed to get some evidence out. the most important piece of testimony from fulton this mornin...

0 that was your son screaming, even before you heard him, correct? >> i didnt hope anything. i just simply listened to the tape. >> in case your case his mother there is no doubt that it was him screaming? >> absolutely. >> did you have any thought in mind how you would react if you didnt hear your sons voice? >> i didnt really know what the tape was all about. >> and everybody else in the room when they listened to the tape, who was the first one to react? >> i was. >> and everybody else then r...

Rachel jeantel seemed to have adopted a more respectful tone. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: but it wasnt long before her yes, sirs seemed to take on a sharper edge. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: defense attorney don west was out to discredit her testimony that george zimmerman was the aggressor and pointed to numerous changes in her story in previous accounts including a letter to trayvons mother, describing what she heard. in it, she left out trayvons derogatory racial language. >> you specifically cho...

Don west was out to discredit her testimony that george zimmerman was the aggressor and pointed to numerous changes in her story in previous accounts including a letter to trayvons mother, describing what she heard. in it, she left out trayvons derogatory racial language. >> you specifically chose not to tell ms. fulton thats what trayvon said. >> no. >> because you thought it would hurt her feelings, didnt you? >> no. >> you didnt think that would bother her, if you said that her son described ...

Second degree murder? weve got to get to that point in this case. >>ith not just second degree murder in this case. we also have manslaughter and in florida, manslaughter is the killing of someone else by the act, procurement, or even criminal negligence that is not justified. so if the evidence bears out. >> stand your ground law. >> stand your ground only applies if you are not the attacker. he was the follower. >> lets go back to her admitting she was lying under oath. >> you told mr. rionda ...

Second degree murder? weve got to get to that point in this case. >>ith not just second degree murder in this case. we also have manslaughter and in florida, manslaughter is the killing of someone else by the act, procurement, or even criminal negligence that is not justified. so if the evidence bears out. >> stand your ground law. >> stand your ground only applies if you are not the attacker. he was the follower. >> lets go back to her admitting she was lying under oath. >> you told mr. rionda ...