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First bond was revoked for essentially lying to the court about his finances. during his first bond hearing, he had posted $200,000 that he had solicited from donations on his own web site. of course, theres a mound of evidence presented on friday in this second bond hearing that the judge is considering. there was a consultant, financial records and turned into a mini trial where his defense team put on witness statements, testimony from george zimmermans father and had paramedics to talk about...

Welcome back, everybody. george zimmerman is back in court. hes asking to be released on jail after a judge revoked it when his wife was arrested on perjury charges earlier this month. joining me is kendall, a legal analyst. lets get to this. its been an interesting morning so far. its all about bond but it seems as though its a mini trial. a forensic financial specialist was brought in to testify the man evaluating the zimmerman accounts, the pay pal accounts that were set up for the donations....

Prosecutor. and in some way. i am sure the defense did not want to get into the nitty-gritty of what happened. you know, the bond hearing was sort of a mini trial. zimmerman did get a chance to get up there and make a self-serving apology, whats been described as. in addition he said he didnt know the gentleman had a gun. he didnt know how old he was. i think the prosecutor will use to a certain extent the idea, you completely didnt remember before, but now you remember, if he takes the stand ag...

Zimmerman took the stand. >> i know. its so bizarre. dont you think its bizarre? >> yeah, hes setting himself up for failure. everything he said yesterday could be used against him. probably will. >> my interest is also, what are they doing in florida here with the bail hearing making it a mini trial? we dont see that in new york the way were seeing this in florida. and some of the things that came out are not good for the prosecution. if i were the defense attorney, id be saying, no problem, br...

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Murder the only thing that it can be charged with? joining me live is former prosecutor gary kasemir and a criminal defense attorney. great to see both of you. i want it start with you, gary. how likely is it that zimmerman is going to be able to accomplish getting bond and be released aslely as friday? >> theres a possibility. next stage in the process is an author hearing. murder in a second-degree is not an immediately bailable defense. two factors considered. whether the evidence is evident ...

That he could throw this out? >> no, i dont think its likely that he could throw it out because of the initial confrontation, or the initial following of trayvon by mr. zimmerman. he was the aggressor, he left a position of safety, not only in his car, but he was traveling. once you leave the position of safety, i think you do not get that level of immunity after that. you can have another self defense argument at trial, but whats important to keep in mind is when you have this mini trial, this ...

outpost had been affected by the wounding of a soldier there the day before the rampage. afghanistans president says his people have gotten "no cooperation from america" in their investigation of last sundays killings. hamid karzai had a face-to-face meeting just yesterday with defense secretary leon panetta. but meeting today with the families of the dead, civilians, karzai questioned whether there had been more than one killer. one villager said the u.s. is offering the families mo...

In the military system you have a hearing officer, one person. he conducts a mini trial and the decision is not, is he guilty, but the decision, is there enough evidence to make a case to bring it before a jury. in this particular case, the hearing officer was, himself, in his civilian life, is himself a federal prosecutor, a national guard on evening and weekend and was during the hearing but in the day he works at the justice department and prosecuted people. question. should a person like tha...

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