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Long before the trial, marks o'mara was fighting for george zimmerman and he kept george zimmerman off the stand. me hush -- pushed for an all or nothing second degree charge. a big day for mach who i spoke with just a short time ago. mark, there seems to be confusion earlier in the afternoon when the judge asked mr. zimmerman whether he would testify or not. he said he needed more time to decide. what finally made him decide not to? i assume for most of this trial, you've known he's not going to testify. >> actually, that's not true. he was really considering testifying. he wanted to tell the...

That the prosecution can go to the jury on just the murder charge, the second degree charge, vinnie? >> no. you need the lesser included. and they should always be there. that's up to the jury to decide. put them out there. if they believe murder, they believe it. if not, go to aggravated manslaughter. let the jury make the decision. >> that's the longest single word i've ever heard in my life. danny can you add to that? >> it goes to the jury. that's for sure. but will it be a not guilty? yes, it will, zimmerman walks. >> thank you very much, fellows. if people knew how you investigation have...

Messages. what could you hope would be the probative value of these text messages that wouldn't just bitter the jury? >> well, there's a spectrum of different things the defense is trying to get in. one is the marijuana which goes to his state of mind at the time. signing that's probative. i think that should come in. however once we move along the spectrum we get the text messages. we have to be aware of what zimmerman was aware of at the time. when you get into trayvon martin's bad character that zimmerman couldn't possibly have been aware of then you move away from the probative. and the po...

Away from the skin. he also excluded martin may have been alive one to three minutes after the shooting. in cross-examination, the prosecution got di maio to concede the scenario could have been different. >> i'm saying that the physical evidence is consistent with mr. martin being over mr. zimmerman. >> is it not also consistent with mr. martin pulling away from zimmerman on the ground, and you would have the same angle, he's pulling away. and zimmerman's shooting him at that time? >> yes. >> reporter: defense attorneys also called george zimmerman's former neighbor to testify via video orchs...

Martin. remember, that's fundamental to self-defense. and that he could haven been moved after being shot. and animated drama. this is going to be huge. why? the defense wants to introduce a cartoon that shows what happened that night in the altercation. it could be very, very influential to the jury. it could literally be the picture in their minds to events. so what happens is critical to what happens today. we have to watch it. trayvon on trial, the defense has made a decision to make trayvon martin relevant in terms of whether or not he was a good actor here or bad actor. the marijuana use...