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Contention that he acted in self-defense. that includes, of course, the most recent witness, mr. root. it includes dr. di maio and his expert testimony in regard to the gunshot. also other injuries my client suffered. we also have a number of voice witnesses, if you will, those witnesses who have come back and testified before this court that they had no issue whatsoever of affirming their pgs and belief and testimony under oath that it was my client who was screaming for help. again, i don't want to belabor the point of the previous case law, but i think that you would need to decide at this ...

Responsible gun owner and, two, about other options that mr. zimmerman may have had. so keeping those two questions from mr. guy in mind, was there anything in mr. stimzimmerman's of his firearm that you would consider to be reckless? >> no. >> why not? >> because the use of the firearm -- >> judge, i'm going to object as to a motion previously heard. >> i might be heard on that? this question was -- >> then approach. >> yes. >> okay. so we see the attorneys here approaching the bench for a side bar. let's bring in our legal experts here, tanya miller, defense attorney, former prosecutor, i th...

>> right. i think it cuts both ways. with what you see the prosecutor trying to do with this witness is is show that, one, george zimmerman was acting sort of like a cop when he comes to her house, questions her about the incident, gets a description of the perpetrators. and, two, it's more likely that george zimmerman would have viewed trayvon martin as one of those bad guys on that night. and more likely to have been aggressive toward him. >> now, it also seems though, eleanor odom, that this is a witness who is effective at maybe describing the fear that some people in the neighborhood had ...

Judge and the defense. everyone wants to know, is george zimmerman going to testify? and she got pretty testy with him. what did you think, eleanor? >> i was a little bit surprised. usually judges will let the defense attorney answer for their client and not press the defendant right away. she really wanted to get an answer. do you intend to testify? what is your intent? a defendant can always change his mind. which is the beauty of that. what do you intend to do right now and do you need some time to talk to your attorney about that. so she was giving him that opportunity but she wanted to kn...

The stand, it really looked like the defense seemed to be having a better day. but looking at today, and even just the body language of mark o'mara, they don't seem to be quite as confident. this defense witness doesn't seem to have served george zimmerman ea zimmerman's case particularly well. >> yeah. this was a mistake by this defense. and let me make it clear, the defense has been doing a really good job. these are excellent attorneys. no question about that. but sometimes when you're in the thick of it, you can't really see the forest for the trees. you just can't see. you lose somewhat o...