Recreation Interview News Today

Further into anything at all but you were just going to present mr. martin as good as you can to mr. zimmerman for that same type of challenge interview style, right? >> i didnt know anything other than that about mr. martin. so that was, yeah, that was a baseline saying that i just wouldnt consider it a completely challenge interview in that context. >> and again, this is why you had mentioned the name in the interview making sure you reminded george of his name to sort of personalize the passi...

Challenge interview, is it not? >> yes, sir. >> and that was the whole purpose of setting it up the way you set it up and where and when you set it up and with whom you set it up? >> not specifically intended for that, but we didnt plan a challenge interview. it was just another interview. there could have been more, but i was, it wasnt as formatted at that, but yes, thats usually the way it turns out to be. >> i dont want to misspeak. youre not suggesting that your intent here wasnt to challeng...

>> no, he was available. >> all right. did you notice a similar behavior were calling it now this flat affect behavior even in the video, as well? >> no, avenues a little animated. >> a little bit more resolved? >> you could use that word, yes. >> and focus on the recreation and let me ask you to point out for the jury inconsistencies that you noticed when the two types. the first is tell me the significant, tell the jury the significant inconsistencies between that recreation video and what he ...

Intent, are you talking so intent? i mean. >> no, but -- >> it wasnt intent. >> you want to get more information from him too. >> yeah. there was a lot of information i didnt have to choolg him with but yes thats one of the ip intentions behind that interview. >> you would agree that the style of theft interview as weve just heard it is a more aggressive style you have interview that you took on because you wanted to get some information from mr. zimmerman to challenge him on what he knew and di...

Thats where you walk into the guy who just you know, stole eight cars in the neighborhood. >> exactly. >> and you have his fingerprints on six of them and hes just telling you he was in the library studying? >> correct. >> so that challenge interview as you walk in and go, you got one last chance, youre going to prison for a long time or youre telling me what happened. thats a real aggressive challenge interview, correct? >> yes, sir. >> so you have to modify the challenge interview style based ...

Had and it wasnt an extensive interview. i can attest to what the interview with officer singleton and the walk through was based on what i saw. that would be more fair. i kind of went there to move things along because i was kind of focused on trying to identify who the decedent was at that time. >> who what. >> i was more focused on trying to identify the december the that the point. so the interview with him was rather short, if you can call it an interview. but ill try. >> okay. but the one,...

Get him if there was something to come clean to, that he would come clean to it? >> yes, sir. >> knowing, as you said, that if its there and it shows something you didnt tell us about, its going to be really bad for you. >> yes, sir. >> and thats the way you said it? >> yes, sir. >> and that was the reason why you said it, right? >> yes, sir. >> and that was all part of your challenge to the interview. >> yes, sir. >> and what did he say when you told him that? >> i believe his words were thank ...

Before and the re-creation video, correct? >> no, sir. >> okay. now, lets just sort of move forward into your next efforts in this regard. im going to then move us up pretty quickly to the next interview with mr. zimmerman, but before you got to the that next interview with mr. zimmerman, tell the jury, if you would, what other actions you were doing as the investigating officer. >> from the beginning? >> well, yeah. we sort of have gone through the 26th, correct? that night. >> okay. >> and the...

He were to add in some brand new fact or are truly change direction, you would note that, correct? >> yes, sir. >> because that would, in fact, suggest a change not just in the presentation but in the real substance of it? >> yes, sir. >> and youre attuned to look for those as the investigator in this case? >> yes, sir. >> all right. >> and did you notice anything to bring to the jurys attention today that caused you that concern than spity sense that somethings going wrong with what hes telling...

Contested mr. zimmermans rendition of the facts, did they? >> not at that point, no, sir. >> including witnesses who were right there after the shooting had occurred that saw mr. zimmerman, correct? there was no conflict there, was there. >> no, sir. >> theres no conflict with the initial investigation of the officer who came on the scene? i think it was tim smith, what he told you did not conflict, what mr. zimmerman had told you, right? >> not at all, no, sir. >> one fact anywhere in that inte...