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Recording, thinking maybe he was going to gather his son's things, he's very emotional. he's distraught. he's trying to come to grips with the terms that his son was just murdered. so i think that they're really just belaboring that point and that that's not going to be the deciding factor for the jury. >> alex, let me call on your experience as a former florida judge. some believe that there was overcharging in this case and that the prosecution is going to have difficulty in meeting its burden with regard to a second-degree murder charge. how difficult will it be for the prosecution, if they...

Police officers had already said that trayvon martin's father had already said, it's not my son. i have in my mind mark o'mara's cross-examination of trayvon martin's mother, where he planted the idea that you have to hope that it's your loved one calling out, because the alternative is unacceptable. and that applies, i think, to all of these witnesses, who care very much about george zimmerman on one side, or care very much about trayvon martin on the other side. i'm not saying that they're lying. i mean, probably, some of them are right. some of them have to be right, it's one or the other. ...

More relaxed. so i don't know, ultimately, if this is really going to help the defense at all. >> alex, are they misreading it? is the defense misreading this by wanting to get that into evidence? >> i don't think they're going to get it in, for the purpose of arguing that he got high, so he became violent, because i think it kind of strains all credibility. however, in the opening statement and throughout the case, we've heard the tape being plaid of the call to the police, where george zimmerman says, there's a strange guy, he's walking between the houses, he looks like he's high on drugs or...

Said he told police that he couldn't tell. he didn't say that he said, "no," he said, "i couldn't tell." again, that was tracy martin, called, of course, called by the defense, not called by the state, michael. >> craig, thanks for a great report. we appreciate it. >> reporter: thank you. >> for more on the trial, we're joined by msnbc legal analyst, lisa bloom, alex freher, a former florida circuit court judge, and myrna white, a former criminal defense attorney. i want to get in a moment to what went on with trayvon martin's father and his testimony. but let's first talk about the toxicology...