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Taken. >> do you know what attempts may have been made specifically in this case? >> objection. >> you ask me this case. >> just one second, please. >> we are just after the top of the hour here. im brooke baldwin. quick pause there in the george zimmerman murder trial. its what they call a side bar. they kill the mikes so these lawyers can approach the bench and have a little discussion. what you have been watching and what weve been watching for really the crux of the day is this associate med...

Throughout the day, youre also watching not only the mothers testify, youre watching these six female jurors, five of the six of mothers. what was their body language like while thats mothers were testifying? >> reporter: yeah. you know, really by being in the courtroom one of the few advantages you have, there are many actually, but the strongest is that you can look the jury in the face. you can watch and try to get any sense of reaction when they listen to this powerful testimony, and today i...

Overruled. >> he is in suffering. he is in pain. >> i would object to speculation then. >> no, i -- >> wait, wait. if there is an objection, i have to rule on it. please, just wait. counsel, please approach. >> all right. so the attorneys are conducting a sidebar right now with the judge. talk about powerful testimony. the medical examiner just testified that trayvon martins heart was still beating which means he could still have been talking after he was shot. is that the significance of this, ...

That tape. tell me how did it go. >> i cant tell you the emotion that was in that courtroom. i watched the jury. it was like they didnt want to invade her privacy right away. there was a side bar for about 15 minutes and they looked down. the jurors didnt look at her. as she started testifying they started to look at her meekly but they looked at her. when she finished and went back to her seat they looked at just sort of fast glances at her. when javarais took the stand and they looked at the l...

The fact that ta criminal case is pendingss gives the family a sense their loved one is alive, still with them. this will be an impactful day for ms. fulton. in a sense this trial will be over and she will have testified on his behalf. there will be a sense of loss after the trial regardless of the verdict for her. >> most assuredly. the attorneys are in sidebar, i think. i see one of the -- okay, the sidebar is over. i saw one of the prosecuting attorneys return to the seat. lets listen. they h...

Place, this side bar hear ing. the jury is still out of the room. lets just try to understand maybe not necessarily whats happening because were not in there and youre not the attorneys there. i dont want to put you in an awkward position, eleanor and tonya. lets talk about the process of resting a case. the state officially rested. im getting in my ear from the control room. so jury is still not in the room. to rest without the jury? is that typical? >> well, not necessarily. but then they coul...

I think it comes down to self-defense. gregg: you are assuming its dna evidence in the evidence locker. im not sure thats the case. >> i dont know what it is. im giving you the best situation. gregg: ann marie you spent many years as a prosecutor working in a prosecutors office. this is embarrassing, isnt it? >> these things happen. its human nature. things dont work. you try to put up a video and the laptop doesnt work. there are all kind of technical snafus that happen every day during a trial...

I just simply listened to the tape. >> just a short while later we heard from trayvon martins brother, older brother jahvaris, talking when he heard the 911 tapes. >> do you recognize any voices on that tape? >> yes. >> whose voice do you recognize? >> my brother. >> trayvons? >> yes. >> what parts of the recording do you recognize as your brothers voice? >> the yelling and the screaming. >> so im back with nbc analyst lisa bloom, as well as here in studio gilani cobb following this trial for "t...

Inside your home and you were attacked, you would have to assess if situation and make a decision at that moment whether or not you could safely get away before resorting to force? >> yes. >> you may approach. >> okay. sonny, now, on cross, the defense is asking about florida stand your ground law. theyre asking that question to a guy that teaches this. and the prosecution is objecting. why is that? >> im not quite sure why theyre objecting at this point because i think that its not really harmf...

>> can we approach, your honor? >> yes. >> okay, lets bring in lisa bloom, msnbc legal analyst, another side bar, just finished with one witness there, lisa. quick in terms of what they were trying to establish there in his request for a ride along. >> theyre trying to establish that george zimmerman was a wanna-be cop, thats the prosecutions argument in this case, that he wanted to be a police officer, but he was not one and instead he was a vigilante on that night. so this witness established ...