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First bond was revoked for essentially lying to the court about his finances. during his first bond hearing, he had posted $200,000 that he had solicited from donations on his own web site. of course, there's a mound of evidence presented on friday in this second bond hearing that the judge is considering. there was a consultant, financial records and turned into a mini trial where his defense team put on witness statements, testimony from george zimmerman's father and had paramedics to talk about his injuries to counter the prosecution's claim that they had a strong case, a lot of evidence in...

Welcome back, everybody. george zimmerman is back in court. he's asking to be released on jail after a judge revoked it when his wife was arrested on perjury charges earlier this month. joining me is kendall, a legal analyst. let's get to this. it's been an interesting morning so far. it's all about bond but it seems as though it's a mini trial. a forensic financial specialist was brought in to testify the man evaluating the zimmerman accounts, the pay pal accounts that were set up for the donations. i want to go ahead and play a bit of everything going on in the court where the prosecutor ask...

Prosecutor. and in some way. i am sure the defense did not want to get into the nitty-gritty of what happened. you know, the bond hearing was sort of a mini trial. zimmerman did get a chance to get up there and make a self-serving apology, what's been described as. in addition he said he didn't know the gentleman had a gun. he didn't know how old he was. i think the prosecutor will use to a certain extent the idea, you completely didn't remember before, but now you remember, if he takes the stand again? i think he has actually gotten some benefit from this mini trial and i think the defense di...

Zimmerman took the stand. >> i know. it's so bizarre. don't you think it's bizarre? >> yeah, he's setting himself up for failure. everything he said yesterday could be used against him. probably will. >> my interest is also, what are they doing in florida here with the bail hearing making it a mini trial? we don't see that in new york the way we're seeing this in florida. and some of the things that came out are not good for the prosecution. if i were the defense attorney, i'd be saying, no problem, bring it on, let's see all the evidence you have because this isn't adding up to what they have...

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