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Against concrete at least several times. that type of injury in and of itself, the way it was presented by my client, that injury and the ongoing nature of that injury supports the right my client under 776 to reasonably believe that he's in fear of future bodily injury because it was ongoing. the state's own witness, captain carter, said one really good indication of future bodily injury is when you've already been injured. and it's still ongoing. you can presume that it's going to continue to occur. and that is, in effect, why my client acted in self-defense. and there is something, most imp...

Behalf because i don't have facts. >> you didn't go to the scene yourself? >> yeah, so i don't have opinion. >> if the evidence showed photographs there at the scene by the police department that the body was covered in a tarp -- a tarp was covered over the body. would that in some way protect the body? >> yes, before i came here i did review the same photos. not because i went to the scene but because i reviewed photos. >> you reviewed photos taken by the investigator? >> yes, a few days ago. even yesterday. >> right. was there indication that the body had been coffvered at the scene? >> it r...

Or ten minutes. i say one to ten minutes. i give myself plenty of margin of error. >> so that's really ten times, isn't it -- >> yes. >> one to ten minutes is a huge -- >> yes, okay. let me tell you -- >> is that as accurate as you can be? >> yes. >> okay. let's then talk about something else you said in connection with that. if i heard what you said earlier in direct, that you said that immediately following the shot, trayvon martin would not be able to move. did you say that? >> yes, i did. >> is that your opinion, that based upon the shot to mr. martin's heart, that immediately upon sustain...

Was important? >> yes. >> and there wasn't any blood or injury to the palms of his hands? >> i look at myself every case. i believe in this case i do something. >> okay. all right. in other words, you're saying when you die, your body kind of curls up. >> yeah, yeah. it's standard. everybody do that after they die. >> okay. and you also mentioned the injury, state's exhibit number 97. since you did find something there, you documented that by photograph, correct? >> yes, yes. >> okay. thank you, your honor. i think that's it for the lights. i'm going to ask him some more questions. thank you. ...

>> is it part of your protocol not to photograph the entire body, all of the body surfaces? >> the protocol is we take photos as a whole body. we take three photos to cover all the body because we don't have space to get a camera too high, very high to get one of the whole body. other than that, we take the photos as needed. for example, if i found something i thought might be significant such as the injury, a tumor, a disease on skin, we will take photo. >> are you saying it was a conscious decision by your staff member not to photograph the palms of trayvon martin's hands? >> i look at the p...