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Prejudicial, then they'll bring the jury back in and play the animation or show the stills. >> all right. i think they are getting ready to show those stills or animations. if they are, i'd be interested in seeing them. they are looking up at that screen over there. maybe we'll show that to our viewers if we can. let's step in, for a moment, see what they are talking about. this is an important piece of potential evidence that may or may not be allowed in the courtroom. >> one screen off, that one, maybe help from the clerk to do an input change.

Document to a witness or using even a document camera. we now have in almost every courtroom around america very sophisticated audio/visual type of equipment so an animation like this can be projected to the jury and the judge and everyone else can see it. with that kind of technology, you're going to run into problems from time to time. >> let me bring in another decision the judge, debra nelson, made last night. an important decision late in the day after the jurors were dismissed. the judge decided that she will allow results of trayvon martin's toxicology report to be admitted, which the d...

Evidence, the prosecution says, not so fast. >> yeah, i'm surprised that the judge is considering it to this extent, just because it really is speculative and oftentimes judges don't allow these kinds of recreations, because you're kind of stepping into the province of the jury. the jury is supposed to determine, after hearing all of the witnesses and after looking at all the evidence, what happened that night. they aren't supposed to be viewing it through the prism of some sort of computer animation expert. so i'm actually surprised that she's taking this much time. she indicated just now tha...

Last brick and mortar book store out there, but its biggest problem at this point has been its nook e-reader. it's had a hard time competing with amazon's kindle and apple's ipad. even when people buy physical books, they are buying them cheaper online than in stores. in the latest quarter, barnes and noble lost $120 million. it has no immediate plans to name a new ceo, but investors are cheering their latest decision, wolf? bookstores all over the country that all of us grew up with, all of us love, but they are struggling right now. >> they really are struggling. >> it's too bad that's the n...

You're looking, by the way, at leiv pictu live pictures right the now from the george zimmerman second-degree murder trial as attorneys argue over the use of animated reenactment of the shooting. they're showing the judge, right now, judge debra nelson, the reenactme reenactment. there you see in the middle of the screen, daniel schumacher, he put it all together. they wanted to show it up on the big screen, they couldn't figure out how to do that. they've got some major technical glitches there. so you see the lawyers, they're making the arguments, the prosecution resisting this animation. th...