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Earlier in these lengthy happens when the defense complained about the prosecution tactics, they fought about a computer animation of the struggle. the judge said she's going to weigh the arguments tonight, rule tomorrow, the text, the photos, tomorrow and make her ruling. it's unclear whether tonight's hearing will derail defense plans to rest tomorrow. a lot to talk about tonight. sunny hostin and jeffrey toobin join me. on the defense table, danny savalos and mark geragos. and dr. lawrence kobalanski is here. mark, some dramatic moments just in the last couple of minutes. the defense saying...

Trial of somebody screaming in the background of the 911 call was the voice of his son. shep? >> shepard: the day began with two very important rulings that went the way of the state. >> yeah, judge debra nelson really agreeing with the state's objections here. first, she told the defense they were not allowed to show as evidence their computer animation showing the fatal final minute. also showing martin as the aggressor. but the defense can use this as an exhibit during its defense closing arguments friday morning. regarding photos of pot and a gun and texts about fighting all taken from mar...

Gregg: we are live back inside the court room in the george zimmerman murder case. but the judge made a couple key defense motions rulings. phil, tell us about these two rulings. computer animation and text messages. >> reporter: the defense for george zimmerman invested hours upon hours to persuade the judge to allow their defense animation depicting martin behind the town homes. but george nelson issuing her ruling, the defense will not be allowed to enter as evidence this animation. the state objected to it saying it's self-serving, misleading and inaccurate and the judge sustained the obje...

Rulings the judge made on the computer animation as well as the text messages on trayvon martin's phone. >> the key word is essentially. there are two ways evidence can come into a courtroom before a jury. either it can come in as demonstrative, or it can come in as evidence. the interesting thing is while the judge said the video cannot be evidence in this case it can nonetheless be shown to the jury. which means the defense gets to play it which is all they need. this is a powerful piece of evidence. it will be very persuasive. gregg: lis, the defense says it's going to wrap up its case some...

Through him the computer animation that was disallowed. >> reporter: that would seem to be the case. judge nelson deciding the animation, again at this point, our understanding, was elaborate animation, has been reduced to stills, part of the stills are animated. it's not nearly what it was in the beginning. but that's going to be something that the jury can see in the closing. not going to be something, though, that the jury's going to be allowed to take back in the jury room with them since it accou cannot be used as evidence. interesting, michael, the defense decided to end their case the s...