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I've had witnesses like rachel and the jury tends to get endeared to the plight of someone who's a reluctant witness on the stand. i think don west needs to tighten this up an get her off the witness stand. >> one of the most heartbreaking things that came out in testimony was apparently she wrote a letter to trayvon martin's mother. it was written in cursive. don west, the defense attorney, gave the letter to rachel and said, read this, and she said, i don't read cursive. i can't read cursive. your heart broke for her. and then at other times, don west actually -- and paul you pointed this ou...

After the bump, but before the phone cut off, you heard trayvon martin say a little "get off get off". >> objection, compound question. >> do you understand the question? >> yes, ma'am. >> you may answer. >> like i told you from the beginning, that interview, i think it last like 13 minutes, i don't know, it didn't last for that long. so i had to rush because i really did not want to be on the phone, sir. so i did not take my time and just like i -- i took my time, i had more time when i was talking to the state. with crump, no. so the question is no. >> so of all the things you thought might ...

That question, what are you talking about was the answer. >> i cannot hear you, sir. >> your testimony today is what you heard on the phone the man say that george zimmerman was, what are you doing around here? >> yes. >> then the first statement you made to mr. crump in his interview of you, you said what mr. zimmerman's response was, what are you talking about? >> yes. >> it was in the interview with mr. crump that you said you thought this was a racial thing. >> he asked if it was a racial thing. >> what did he say? >> do you think the situation was a racial thing?

Accurate words or the accurate truth? >> objection. compound question. complicated. >> did you understand -- i'm sorry. did you understand the question? >> yes, ma'am. >> could you answer it? >> no, sir. >> let me see if i can say it better then. when mr. delrano was asking questions about what happened and who said what, you were making it sound different than it actually was to keep hurting miss fulton's feelings? >> not all of them, sir. >> i'm sorry? >> not all of them, sir. >> not all of the answers, correct >> yes, sir. >> but some of the answers? >> yes, sir. >> some of the answers abou...

About this phase where the jury submit questions. >> the courts have resisted this for years because you don't know where it's going to go. you don't know how the juror who asked the question is going to react to the answer. you don't know if the question sort of tips the hands of the jurors as to how -- what their thinking is and whether counsel should change what they're going to do for the rest of the case in response to what they think the jury is thinking now. sometimes i myself have seen juror questions, sometimes they are terrific and simply ask something that you as the judge and the l...