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You are not missing any testimony. there was a brief recess called in this courtroom. i emphasize brief. there's one issue that has yet to be resolved in this case. that is will or won't george zimmerman take the stand in his own defense in his second degree murder case. he's got, oh, i don't know. about eight more minutes left to make that decision. if he hasn't already. here's the question. don't they make that decision early on? or do they truly wait until the very end to determine if a tft should take the stand in his own defense? once again, no testimony at this moment. it's about to resu...

The location of mr. zimmerman's little small flashlight, anything else like that. focus for now just on the 40 seconds of screaming and the injuries. with that set of circumstances, would you change your opinion at all about mr. zimmerman's lack of options? >> no, i would not. >> would your opinion be the same even if there was a two-minute delay between the ending of mr. zimmerman's phone call and the event that happened which caused those injuries? >> no. that would be irrelevant to me. >> what are the only real relevant factors that you look at when, in this case, when evaluating the use of...

>> thank you. >> they had a third. >> they didn't know if they were going to call that person or not. >> i have to ascertain his availability or not. >> when you find out tonight could you e-mail the defense and let them know so they can be prepare zb prepared. >> i know the state knows this is not a rekpp examination of him, but just a rebuttal to some particular fact we presented in this case. >> if it's not, you can object and i'll rule sfwl yes, your nor. >> are we ready to bring the jury in? >> you need to again rest on the record in front of the jury. please bring the jury on. >> there y...

The state has certainly submitted sufficient evidence and will again continue to do so in rebuttal to indicate that both the facts and the inferences that can be drawn therefrom would support a jury verdict as to both murder and the lesser included manslaughter. >> i would just ask that either the state or perhaps the court, if you're going to rule, identify the state's factual scenario, their theory of the case, anything for which there is -- that excludes a reasonable hypothesis of innocence of my client. now that they've finished their case and we've finished our case i would ask that be ar...

Then george zimmerman, who was in some type of training. he have wasn't a couch potato. >> we know in this case there's a subtext of racism no matter what. jurors may or may not fall into that. i think it's better, though, to look at how illogical and dis disinagain use it appears to be. >> and the jury has seen video of him. it's not as if there's a picture that exists that shows the fitness of george zimmerman. he looks fit. >> i think one of the problems you want to make sure is the jurors don't get confused about how he was then versus now. that's going to be the prosecution's job. they ca...