messages. what could you hope would be the probative value of these text messages that wouldn't just bitter the jury? >> well, there's a spectrum of different things the defense is trying to get in. one is the marijuana which goes to his state of mind at the time. signing that's probative. i think that should come in. however once we move along the spectrum we get the text messages. we have to be aware of what zimmerman was aware of at the time. when you get into trayvon martin's bad character that zimmerman couldn't possibly have been aware of then you move away from the probative. and the potential for prejudice starts to rise. when prejudice outweighs substantially the probative value, it must be excluded. >> so vinnie, do you believe -- >> i concur -- >> you dorun with. you condurincur. do you think they run with this case and if they do, what do