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>> welcome to "on the record." i'm in for greta van susteren. the csi effect, from the gun to dna, jurors hearing the forensic evidence in the zimmerman case today. holly bristow joins us live with the latest. what did we learn today? >> well, six different witnesses took the stand. i'll take you through them one by one real quick. first, a person from a local community college that testified that george zimmerman had testified criminal litigation. up next, a cop from virginia, saying that zimmerman applied for a job back in 2009 and got denied. up next, a community college professor who is no...

Defendant, george zimmerman. >> yes. >> and you were able to exclude trayvon martin as having dna on the pistol grip, is that correct? >> yes. trayvon martin was excluded as being a possible contributor to this mixture on the grip. >> yesterday, zimmerman's best friend testified that zimmerman told him trayvon martin grabbed for the gun. is this significant at small >> i do think it's a significant inconsistency. i was in the courtroom and i cannot begin to tell you how into this witness the jury was. they were leaning forward. they were taking notes. they even laughed with him. he was very en...

Juries often because of the csi effect, really will rely on that dna evidence, but enough doubt raised by the defense that somehow the dna evidence could have been transferred, at some other time, and was not because of their client murdered the victim. >> clearly some kind of confusion going on with this jury. at one point they say to the judge, i believe, your honor, that there are members of the jury not following your instructions and are basically saying we don't care what the law says. we are going to decide how we want to decide. that was the jury foreman before the verdict. the judge s...

>> there is always a possible indication that maybe this suspect may have been injured. there was blood on the scene they found? >> in watertown, there was blood found that the police are trying to match now to see if it in fact came from an injury or wound to one of the two suspects. the suspect is alive and still on the loose. >> obviously he got away. he left on foot. he left that car and went away on foot. larry, if they do have blood, he will talk about the csi effect. how quickly could they identify if it was his blood? >> they can do dna analysis in 75 minutes. technology advanced treme...

This was a real problem. this is what you want from the government, right, you want your government, if a mistake has been made, to correct that mistake. >> this is another instance, sunny, that shows how eyewitness testimony can be unreliable. >> yeah, that's right. i know i'm one that always was a bit uncomfortable with only relying upon eyewitness testimony in a case. that's why with the csi effect, most prosecutors and most jurors, quite frankly, want something more than someone saying i saw it. they want the dna evidence, they want the fingerprints, but this case did have, not one, not tw...