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Two inches in diameter. two inches in diameter of stippling would indicate the muzzle of the gun was two or three inches away from the skin at the time of this charge. that has to be worked out a little bit when the medical examiner testifies. its interesting, andrea, according to the autopsy, the bullet not only enters the mid chest, just left of the mid line, doesnt go straight back. goes sideways, across the heart, across the right lung from left to right, and so it isnt 90 degree angle, a si...

>> reporter: in court, the judge announced the state planned to arrest. that didnt happen and wont until friday, after the fourth of july holiday. martin savidge, cnn, sanford, florida. >> lets dig deeper now with lawrence kobalinski. sunny hostin, marcia clark. also criminal defense attorneys jose baez and mark geragos. what do you make of the forensic evidence you heard today? the firearm expert talked about the gun being pressed up against trayvon martins chest, and yet that is different than...

Trayvons hands and the sleeves on his hoody, would be important in indicating that there wasnt the kind of assault against zimmerman as has been brairaise. i think the medical examiners testimony on friday will be important. because it was interesting that the ballistics female, the person who testified today, only talked about the clothing that the muzzle of the gun touched the outer garment, but would not comment on the affect on the skin. she said that wasnt her job, but you have to be able t...

Trayvon martin. if you recall, the woman who testified about the position of the muzzle, she said it was against the shirt. it wasnt actually penetrating through the shirt. the cloth was not wrapped around the gun because the pattern of the gun powder corroborates zimmerman being the aggressor. >> and if he were to be the aggressor, that fits in with their narrative. >> exactly. >> kendall, the zimmerman dna, none was found under martins fingernails according to the testimony we heard idea. how ...

A police officer. >> that is the reason why. >> how are you employed? >> i am employed by the florida department of law enforcement orlando regional crime laboratory. >> there is no evidence for example that would show up that you would take a gun nuzzle and push it into the shirt where the shirt would fold around it. >> it was consistent with the muzzle of the firearm touching. >> it was consistent with this, correct? shirt, firearm. wasnt consistent with this, pushing or anything? >> no. >> a ...

He shot trayvon martin. i want to bring in george howell outside the courthouse. feder first of all, lets talk about the firearm analyst. explained how close these two were because o of what she learned from the residue of the gun. can you explain why that was significant. >> reporter: she explained the process. he did a distance examination where she took some of the live rounds that were in that gun that she was testing. i think there were seven. took some of those and fired shots into samples...

>> and if you look at the defense lawyer on the screen, hes holding up his fingers as though its about six inches. the jurys looking at him as hes doing this. the prosecutions not saying anything. >> can you examine the sweatshirt and the wound on the decedents body and make a determination and see if the sweatshirt was away from the body? and can you estimate the damage? but can you look at that and estimate that? >> yes, the criminal -- the medical examiner can do that. to see the spread of th...

Correct? >> yes. >> shirt, firearm? >> yes. >> it wasnt consistent with this, pushing or anything? >> no. >> that you would have shown a completely different configurati configuration. >> to me contact is when the muzzle is touching the fabric. >> thats all someone would need to do to fire a shot if it was fully loaded? >> yes. >> all right, professor, whats the significance of this testimony? >> i thought that her testimony was quite excellent and clear. what she concluded from her test firings...

Gunshot. >> so evidencing the gun was against the material when it was fired? >> yes. >> all right. finally, states 131, whats depicked there? >> this is a close-up shot of the test that i had generated with the lighter colored sweatshirt, depicting a little better, you can see the tearing and the blackening of the fabric right around the hole. >> all right. >> are your findings consistent with the muzzle of the gun having been pressed into the dark hooded sweatshirt and then fired through both ...

>> when you say touching is that a term of it was touching or in this case whn yen you say you sa couple of little burn spots of maybe powder that had escaped. is that consistent with being an eight of an inch of away. >> its consistent with the muzzle touching the garment it. >> you can tell because there was some tearing. thats the way it projectile at that range rips through the fabric? >> yes. >> did you do any examination to identify the distance that the bullet traveled before it hit mr. m...