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Of the george zimmerman murder trial. you recall zimmerman was acquitted last week in the shooting death of trayvon martin. knew the justice department is putting a hold on all the evidence in the case and also asking the public for tips indicating it may be weighing a federal civil rights. what might happen. tad nelson is a defense attorney and former prosecutor and rachel self is a trial attorney. thank you so much. tad, is the justice department obligated, is it mandatory for them to do an investigation in this case because the f.b.i. already did and determined that george zimmerman did not...

Quick is wrong. they are now focused on manslaught manslaughter. now, understand they would not be on manslaughter unless they already passed murder in the second degree. and what that tells me is, they are now deciding whether zimmerman is guilty of manslaught manslaughter. okay, i'm listening to right now -- i'm going to keep going on this. the issue of manslaughter and whether or not there is sufficient evidence to convict zimmerman, very much depends on how the judge charges the jury. the issue, of course, is whether or not this jury believes that the prosecution has proved beyond a reason...

Again, we got our legal team. guys, look, if you've got a guy who was charged with murder, who has a defense of self-defense, wouldn't you send him to the hospital now to see if, indeed, he did have a fracture, even though it's a year later or more than that? because it would show as dr. badin would say a healed fracture. start with you, tad? >> well, judge, how do you know they didn't? that's just it. i use experts every day. >> tad, if they did and it worked to their advantage, they would have told us. >> exactly. but what if it didn't work to their advantage? what if they sent him to their ...

>> what dr. bao says every time he does an autopsy, his opinions can change. that's all right for a student. it's not all right for somebody who has been testifying for five years that every time he reads something, his opinions change and i think that and his argueing with the judge and argueing with the lawyers is not the way experts are supposed to testify. so i think he has a lot to be taught about how to properly testify and his opinions have to be more consistent with what's in textbooks. he, every time he read something, he changed his mind. but -- >> let me ask you, doctor, sure. >> ye...

This is the waiting list. there are a lot of people on that list, yeah. home. dignity. family. independence. home. . >> i don't want to have the jury sit out there and wait like they did today. we will be in recess at 8:00 in the morning. and so have i. >> i have not been able to compare or get my witnesses gathered tomorrow. i can't do it tonight. we aren't physically able to keep up this pace. it's 10:00 at night. we started this morning. we've had full days every day. weekend depositions at night. >> you've just witnessed some of the tension between the judge and especially the defense atto...