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in. it was not admissible. it was irrelevant. it was not brady rule evidence. it did nothing to support george zimmerman's guilt or innocence. it was done solely to try to persuade the jury and influence them. >> okay. its's clearly going to be a ver contentious trial. thank you, gentlemen, for joining me. now we go to breaking news. more tornadoes across the midwest. joining me is storm chaser reed timmer. reed, what can you tell me? >> monster tornado, i would say at least a half mile wide and the city of salina definitely dodged a bullet. i haven't seen this happen in a long time. this storm was moving due west, east to west. normally they move southwest to northeast. very violent tornado. we tried to intercept, we actually were forced into an intercept position with our armored vehicle and i launched two scientific probes into the tornado that are probably about two miles down the road but we have blocked power poles and i
he's never coming back. sabrina has lost a tremendous amount of weight. i would submit to you that she's undergoing more emotional loss than george zimmerman is. >> that, i'm certain is true. that's an irrefutable fact and will of course be at the center of this trial. let me ask you the question i asked mark o'mara which is about the jury selection process. it seems to me this is going to be pretty crucial to how this trial plays out. what is your view of how this process should play out? >> well, i don't think attorney o'mara and the defense team helped the matter by releasing all those photographs and these text messages that they knew were going to be inadmissible. i think it was a strategy to pollute and persuade this jury pool and that's not right. i think that we need this trial to be very transparent, to be very fair so everybody can accept the verdict when it's returned. trayvon's parents have asked
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you're rooting for an outcome. you know what the result has to be. we have to see where the evidence fits. now, one of the hardest questions in the law of self-defense is whether evidence that shows a propensity to violence on the part of the person who was killed is admissible if the person who killed him didn't know about it at the time. the judge in this case so far ruled it can't come in in the opening argument, but we haven't yet learned whether she'll admit the evidence if the state puts his state of mind at issue, if the state says look, he's a peaceful kid, he didn't do anything wrong, he has a wonderful life. will the defense then be able to raise in rebuttal the fact no, he's been on marijuana, he's had previous brushes with the law. that's going to be a very interesting and difficult issue. >> gloria, it seems to me that far from being a civil rights case, it's more a trial about the stand your ground law, because so many states now have adopted this and it's basically a recipe for anyone who wants to do bad things and i'm not saying george zimmerman did this
dangerous if this simply becomes a civil rights trial in the sense that it may have had in the end, we haven't seen all the evidence, nothing to do with racial profiling by george zimmerman and much more to do with what many believe to be the crazy stand your ground law in florida. that is why the authorities from the police onwards acted in the way that they did, not because trayvon martin was a young black man. >> well, piers, we believe that if the shoe was on the other foot, trayvon martin could have said he was standing his ground, could have said self-defense, h could have said anything he wanted to say that night, the police would have arrested him. the police would have took him to jail. he would not have went home. so that's the issue. i want to say one other thing. attorney o'mara talked about his client's state of mind and the fact that he's depressed and gaining weight. well, imagine what the martins have to endure. their child is dead.