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Really was acting in a style that was more similar to vigilante rather than someone just protecting the neighborhood. so this is why you see the prosecution fighting so hard to introduce those tapes and to show that to the jury to try and give them their lens of why zimmerman behaved the way he did on that night and how he approached the ultimate confrontation that ended up in the homicide -- or ended up in the death. >> mark, those calls cut both ways. you could listen to them and say he was th...

And the rest of the defense team spent a lot of time from keeping the jury from hearing the past 911 calls zimmerman made. how damaging could they be for zimmerman, if admitted? >> one of the things people would hear or could hear is that maybe there was a past pattern or a past practice or they would glean from those conversations that this guy was really acting in a style more similar to a vigilante, rather than someone just protecting the neighborh d neighborhood. so this is why you see the p...

To eviscerate somebody on the stand who has gone over the top in their opinion. >> palm, as we said earlier, zimmermans defense team did spend a lot of time today trying to keep the jury from hearing those past 911 calls. how damaging do you think they could be if theyre admitted? >> well, one of the things that people would hear or could hear is that maybe there was a past pat attorney or past practice or they would glean from those conversations that this guy really was acting in a style that ...

Cares about in this case. >> what you saw today was exactly that. it was the prosecution fighting very hard to make sure that the defendants were required to come to court against their own will so that the process can seem to be fair. >> aside from the right to a trial and the right to counsel, and the right to a jury, impartial fact finder, the right to presence is the most fundamental. >> if there was a moment in court today it, belonged to the parents of andrea habberman, she was killed on t...