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Across? >> i think as a defense attorney as it relates to each and every witness, you start off with a game plan. you start off with i'm going to go this way, i'm not going to be difficult, i'm going to be difficult. if they give me a hard time, i'm going to try to keep my cool. but we are talking about a murder trial here. we do have a man's life on the line. and i think what really went on is i think he intended to start off being not necessarily nice, because that's not his job, and you know what? it is his job to be somewhat tough on her. and it is his job to try to catch her in lies and m...

As the prosecution's key witness. she was on the phone with him just before he was killed. defense attorney don west spent hours over the course of two days, trying to discredit jeantel. and while he did succeed in poking holes in some aspects of her story, such as whether she told an attorney for the martin family that she heard trayvon martin yell "get off, get off" during the confrontation, the core of what she said all along has remained consistent, that on the night of his death, trayvon was being followed by a man who turned out to be george zimmerman. still, a lot of the attention on je...

They may not be sure what to make of rachel jeantel. but they believe trayvon martin was followed, was pursued by zimmerman, and whatever else after that came about because george zimmerman ignored the dispatcher and went looking for this guy. >> because of the focus on jeantel, i want to play just a little bit of sound from it. let's take a look at this exchange with the defense attorney. >> of course, you don't know if he was telling you the truth or not. >> why you need to lie about that, sir? >> maybe if he decided to assault george zimmerman, he didn't want you to know about it? >> that's...

Term, ground and pound, to describe what martin was doing. good also testified there was a call for help, likely from the man at the bottom who he believed was zimmerman. now that was different from the testimony we heard from another neighbor yesterday who thought it was zimmerman who was on top. joining us now, arise legal contributor seema, joseph haynes davis, former federal prosecutor kendall coffey and defense attorney dana swickle. let's get into this question of who was on top. seema, yesterday we had testimony from a neighbor who they played back her very tearful 911 call. and she tes...

>> and contrast that with the defense attorney mark o'mara today as he began questioning witness jonathan good. >> morning, sir. >> morning. >> don't really want to be here, do you? >> i guess it has to be done. >> sure. you were very reluctant to be involved in the case at all, correct? >> correct. >> how does an attorney's demeanor affect not just how the jury sees the attorney, but more importantly, how the jury views the witnesses? we're back with seema iyer, joseph haynes davis, kendall coffey, and dana swickle. dana, you talked about this a little bit before. does it seem like they're pl...