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Phil. >> reporter: a strategic move by prosecutors, or jenna, rather, by prosecutors as they called one of the defense's audio expert witnesses first to then set up the still to come very emotional testimony anticipated by trayvon martin's mother. inside the courtroom right now sanford police detective doris singleton. she was involved in one . very first initial interviews with george zimmerman the night of the shooting. again today testimony addressing that infamous 911 call with somebody screaming in the background. stkpwhr-f >> 911 do you need police, fire or medical. >> maybe both i'm not...

Fired the prosecutor on. so it was heavily -- it was politically charged and it was a situation where chris just wanted to be a good cop. >> i'm not trying to get him in trouble. i'm just trying to set it up so viewers understand what prior history was. and my understanding is, buzz i'm looking at the recordings of this back and forth he had with mr. zimmerman, and he is expressing doubts about zimmerman's version of the events. he says, this is a kid with a future. he had ice tea, skittles, $40 in cash, and it sound like he is challenging zimmerman. >> that's what police officers are trained ...

Resuming testimony now with officer doris singleton who was one of the first people to interview george zimmerman on the night of trayvon martin's killing. let's take a listen as the defense continues its cross-examination. >> you had stated that there were two things that i want to focus you on. at one point you stated that mr. zimmerman told you that he thought trayvon martin might have come from some bushes. >> yes. >> is that correct? and then, you also stated that he had said to you that it wasn't really exactly aware of where he came from. >> yes. >> is that just him attempting to explai...

This is continuing coverage of the george zimmerman murder trial. right now the prosecution has called a police officer with the sanford police department, detective doris singleton. she's the officer who interviewed george zimmerman on the night trayvon martin was killed. she also returned to the scene of the crime the following day for a walk through and explanation of what happened. i'd like to bring in our legal panel for a moment. kendall coffey, faith jenkins, and lisa bloom are joining us this morning to evaluate what we're seeing and hearing here in sanford, florida. kendall, i want to...

On, which isn't unusual. phil keeting is outside the courthouse. i guess the idea is to get truthful information from the person. >> and get a suspect to contradict himself or herself -- get down into the nitty-gritty. the detective said -- how zimmerman, who is 28 at the time, and martin was 17, didn't seem put up much of a fight other than eventually pulling out his gun after taking what he describe as a beating. he was afraid for his life by trayvon martin. also, doris singleton, the other cop, said, well, maybe trayvon martin, who was doing nothing wrong, he sees you and maybe he