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The verdict. let's say that right out. it will be an issue on appeal if the defendant is convicted. that is because there is a motion for sanctions pending. the defense is alleging discovery violations, and the bottom line is they wanted to put in the information that was found on trayvon martin's phone. they wanted to put in the pictures and the text messages. now, the judge didn't allow them to put it in because she said it couldn't be aulth into kated. she said we don't even know if they're from trayvon martin's phone or if he sent them. the defense is going to argue, had we had the informa...

Sometimes so hard to predict. of course, it was intentional, of course, it had everything to do with his testimony and had everything to do with him trying to out his employers. >> yeah. >> he came forward and said and interestingly i always expected him to say, i had to do the right thing, he just said, no, i didn't want to get arrested, so the discovery violations are a big deal and so his firing or not firing, don, won't make any difference. it will be a point of appeal if there's a conviction regardless. >> the judge said that would be handled after. >> that's right. the sanctions would be...

This is a case where i filed not one, but six motions for sanctions against the state for discovery violations. in 30 years of practice, i've never filed a sanction violation request with the court. this particular case, what frustrated mr. west so much is we now know with evidence from the state attorney's office that they had evidence of these reports that were generated in the third week of january, 2013. we didn't receive the information until june 4. that type of discovery violation is significant, and it negatively impacted our way to get prepared for the trial. i can understand with and...

>> it's simply unfair for mr. zimmerman not to be able to put on his defense because of the state's tactics. it was a strategy, because they had it in january, and kept it from us. made us spend 10, 20, 100 hours digging it out. playing games with us. lying to this court, and now it's our fault? >> a, how extensive -- if you agree with him that the state has lied, how extensive do you think the lies are? and are there other points of contention with how the state handled if case? >> this is a case where i filed not one, but six motions for sanctions against the state for discovery violations. ...

Digging it out. playing games with us. lying to this court, and now it's our fault? >> a, how extensive -- if you agree with him that the state has lied, how extensive do you think the lies are? and are there other points of contention with how the state handled if case? >> this is a case where i filed not one, but six motions for sanctions against the state for discovery violations. in 30 years of practice, i've never filed a sanction violation request with the court. this particular case, what frustrated mr. west so much is we now know with evidence from the state attorney's office that they...