to arguments. she was being optimistic on that. the arguments have been going back and forth. she said she ll reconvene tomorrow. in other ways, the trial speedy. the defense plans to rest tomorrow but not before calling more witnesses to bolster the case while george zimmerman suffering a life-threatening beating while crying for help shot trayvon martin. let s give you a sense of what happened today. reporter: dr. vincent di maio said the bullet hole in trayvon martin s clothing and body proved a point, it was martin on top of george zimmerman as they struggled. a gunshot expert said he could tell it was martin on top of zimmerman because even though the gun was touching the hoodie, the hoodie was not touching martin s skin. the fact we know the clothing was 2 to 4 inches away is consistent with somebody leaning
over the person doing the shooting, and that the clothing is 2 to 4 inches away from the person firing. reporter: di maio countered the medical examiner s testimony for the prosecution who said martin could have survived and suffered up to ten minutes after she was shot. di maio said shot in the heart, martin would have been unconscious in 10 to 15 seconds. he s going to be dead within 1 to 3 minutes after being shot in this case. reporter: finally, demayo testified that zimmerman s injuries fit his account saying his review of photographs indicated zimmerman s head suffered at least six impacts against a hard surface. is this insjury consistent with mr. zimmerman s head having impacted a sidewalk? yes, sir. reporter: the prosecution jumped on a key question that the defense expert couldn t
could have been trying to move away just before the shot was fired. at that point you don t know if trayvon martin was backing up, backing away in terms of providing an angle or whether he was going forward, you can t say? all i said is it s consistent with his account, mr. zimmerman s account, that s all. it s also consistent with trayvon martin pulling back in terms of providing the same angle. i told you that, too, yes, sir. reporter: the last testimony of the day was from zimmerman s former neighbor too ill to appear in person. she joined a growing witness of witnesses who said she believes the voice screaming for help sounded like george zimmerman. based on the fact i ve only heard george s voice and it s a male voice, i would say it was his. and when you say you ve heard him talk, tell us again, about how long you ve known him. by that time, it was two and a half years.
ultimately will be, anderson, but to undermine his credibility and say, look, he changed his mind to say what was going to help the case most from his son s point of view is the defense argument. at the end of the day, this is going to be something that becomes awash. i m not denying the fact that it is an effective tactic by the defense to use the victim s father in the way they did, as painful as it was to watch. i think ultimately this jury s going to make up their own minds, each side says what you expect them to say. one it s trayvon, the other is zimmerman, they may very well throw it all out and say, you know what, trayvon s father was under enormous stress, he just heard his son had been killed. he called in to say his son was missing just before he found out he had been killed. and after all, we don t know what to make of what his statement was to the police. and just throw it out. so that s an entirely that s a possibility too. it s interesting, we ve seen over the last w
it was incredibly difficult to watch trayvon martin s father on the stand today trying to hold it together, trying to keep his composure under these conditions. and it s strange to much time being spent on contesting this one piece of evidence, whose voice is on the tape? why is that important to the case, karen? it s important because obviously the defense wants to prove that zimmerman was not the aggressor, he didn t provoke the situation, and that he didn t create the situation. so if he was the one crying for help, obviously, you know, he wasn t the one who put himself in that situation. that s what they re trying to prove, and obviously whoever s crying for help is the person that s in a position of vulnerability. and if that s zimmerman, obviously his self-defense is going to be a lot more credible. it strikes me as bizarre just watching this, this kind of contest over the plausibility of trayvon martin as essentially the aggressor in all of this, which, yeah.