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Because of felony disenfranchisement, which means that because so many african-american men have been convicted of felonies, many of them are excluded for life from juries. that's true in florida. that's true in the majority of states. so it's not uncommon for whites to be overrepresented on juries. this is an issue that's been raced in a lot of trials of african-americans. we are disproprorgs gnatly less likely to get a jury of our peers. this is a nationwide problem. >> we'll see the next phase of this. perhaps we'll hear from the judge before the end of the day regarding these audio experts...

They have brought 500 people to the court. they have not all come through so far this week but they have got to a panel of six and about four alternatinges and before t end of the week the judge is expected to stop the process for just a time so that they can continue the frye hearing, an important hearing to make a decision about whether the audio experts who may have heard or who may not have heard something on the 911 call with the screaming and the gunshot and their testimony will be allowed when the testimony gets under way. that's a pretty important ruling we believe by the end of the we...

>> i can't see him. i don't want to go out there. >> does he keep yelling help? >> what is your number? >> that sound of the final moments of the confrontation between george zimmerman and trayvon martin and the question of, who was screaming for help, zimmerman or martin, could be crucial in the case? defense and prosecution experts disagree on whether there is enough audio to draw a conclusion at all. joining me to discuss the case and what we can expect from the trial is kendall coffey, former district attorney for florida and now an attorney in private practice. always great to talk to you...

Call forensically is of so little use it should not be allowed in court because there's so few clips in that call where you're not listening to the caller, the 911 caller, or the 911 dispatcher in the distance in that phone call, you can hear an altercation. some of the states witnesses were saying that they could make out words, they are saying that trayvon martin is saying certain things and george zimmer man is saying certain things. the defense is countering saying how do you know for certain when you don't have much of a sample there to listen to. so in addition to that, the judge also ha...

Victim and george zimmerman was the perpetrator and that's what this tends to show. >> faith, you also have the state's audio experts said this in his report. quote, the other male speaker was identified tentatively as trayvon martin from the audio track of a digital video file present on mr. martin's cell phone. his voices younger and he generates much of what some observers have called screams. now, he's identified the screams as trayvon martin. how vital is this for the prosecution's case? >> again, it's critical. they want to be able to convince the jury that trayvon was the victim here. t...