Case solved, no head slammed into concrete!

Good often correcting Bernie's testimony

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10:00 a.m.
De la Rionda shows a nighttime photo of the crime scene. Good confirms that he can see his backyard.

Good describes the weather as “nasty outside.”

De la Rionda shows another photo of the crime scene.

He show’s a photo of the front of the homes, pointing out Good’s and Lauer’s homes. He points out the house numbers.

De la Rionda shows a daytime photo of the Good’s backyard area. He asks the court clerk for two diagrams.

9:56 a.m.
De la Rionda asks him about using the description of “MMA style.” He says it was used to describe the straddling position and actions of the arms.

De la Rionda asks if he saw the person on top slamming the head of the person on the bottom. Good says no.

De la Rionda asks if he heard the 911 call with the screams. Good says he heard it as his deposition and said the yells did not sound the same.

De la Rionda shows an aerial photo of the housing complex, pointing out Good’s former residences and the area where the shooting happened.

9:50 a.m.
De la Rionda plays the 911 call.

9:49 a.m.
He says the person on top was in a straddling position and the person on the bottom was face up.

Good says he saw the person on top’s arms moving. De la Rionda demonstrates striking his fist and the table.

Good says he could not hear those sounds.

De la Rionda asks if the person on top could have been holding the other person down.

Good says he can’t say.

He says he asked, “What’s going on?” and no one answered. Then he heard a “help.”

He then asked if he should call the police.

Good says he couldn’t hear yelling when he initially stepped out.

He says he could not 100 percent say who was saying “help,” but thinks the person on the bottom was.

They then moved onto the sidewalk, one of them got into the straddle position and he considered what was happening as serious and decided to call 911.

He says his adrenaline was going and can’t remember hearing more yells. The TV was muted, he says, and the light outside stayed on.

He did not see anyone else out there at first.

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10:05 a.m.
De la Rionda confirms with Good the location of his residence on the diagram.

Good says at some point, possibly while he was dialing 911, he heard a gunshot. Good says he wasn’t focusing on the yells for help, but was calling 911.

He says he could not 100 percent identify the voice he heard.

Good says he only heard the three cries for help.

De la Rionda finishes question. O’Mara checks if anyone needs a break. The jury says no. O’Mara asks for a couple minutes to get his exhibits.

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Gooooooooooo Team!

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O'Mara stepping through clarification of horizontal/vertical.

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I sense Jon to be trying to NOT support GZ.

He is VERY annoying with his dopey notions about terms like vertical and horizontal.

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LOL!
I had went back to quote you again! MOM is doing well with it. I was worried he might confuse jurors!

MOM demonstrates GOOD. Jon is ANNOYING in his descriptions... a demo is the only way to make it clear.

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Bernie may wrap up MOM's case for him today!

10:15 a.m.
O’Mara asks about the distance from the concrete sidewalk to the patio he was standing on. O’Mara suggests that it is about 20 feet.

O’Mara demonstrates in front of the witness stand how the person on the ground might have been positioned.

Good asks for another visual, jokingly.

O’Mara kneels on the ground, pointing out the person on the bottom was lying flat. Good says the person on top was wearing dark colors.

Good confirms the person on top was “straddling” the other.

He says it was about eight to 10 seconds from the time he first saw them to the time he saw them on the concrete.

10:10 a.m.
O’Mara asks about Good’s desire for anonymity through the trial. O’Mara says he’d like to walk through that night and the terms he used.

O’Mara asks him if the noises could have come from another area, but Good says he thought they weren’t speculating. De la Rionda objects to the question.

O’Mara asks him further about the noise. He clarifies that the TV was turned down twice; once when he first heard a noise and again when he heard the next noise.

That’s when he says he went to the sliding glass door.

“I couldn’t really tell what was out there,” Good says, but he opened the sliding glass door and screen and took a step out to see.

He describes thinking there was a dog attack, and says he say one person at the point.

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I can see that Bernie would have been embarrassed if he did not call witnesses... but these witnesses are all defence witnesses.

The State has no case... it would have made sense to call nobody.

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Jon is scared of retribution. He wanted to testify anonymously. I give him big credit.

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10:27 a.m.
O’Mara demonstrates a softer pounding noise. Good says he never heard that.

O’Mara asks he ever heard the sound of a skull being smacked on concrete or a fist hitting a face. Good says he can’t remember.

“I can’t 100 percent confirm that that was happening,” Good says in response to O’Mara’s question about telling the jury he’s not saying he didn’t see Martin hitting Zimmerman.

O’Mara asks him about the screams heard in the 911 call and the ones he heard personally.

Good says they sounded different to him as he heard them.

O’Mara says the timing of the calls lined up perfectly with the gunshot and the screaming sounds.

He says he is going to play Lauer’s call so they can hear the gunshot and he lied Good to testify to what he remembered seeing.

“I wouldn’t be able to tell you that,” Good says, but O’Mara says he will let him listen to the recording.

O'Mara plays the 911 call from Lauer.

10:23 a.m.
He says when he saw it move to the sidewalk and the other person straddle the other, he thought it was serious.

O’Mara asks Good about his initial statement to an officer and him using the “MMA style” description and the term “ground and pound.”

Good explains it as the person on top being able to punch the person on the bottom, but the person on the bottom can also punch or get out.

O’Mara asks him if the person on top is the dominant person.

De la Rionda objects to questioning about speculation.

Good says he has watched enough MMA fights to know what “ground and pound” is. O’Mara questions him further about it.

Good confirms he couldn’t actually see a fist hit a face. He says the sides of the people on the sidewalk. He says Zimmerman’s right side, Martin’s left side would’ve been toward him at that point.

O’Mara asks if that’s when he could hear Zimmerman cry for help. “Incorrect,” Good says.

He says he heard the cry for help when he initially went outside. He says he would think the person on the bottom was screaming for help.

Good says he thinks a yell for help from the person on top would’ve sounded different.

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The jurors must be so confused... they know these are prosecution witnesses... kind of like me yesterday not understanding how Selma helped the prosecution at all. "What did I miss?" is probably something the jurors will be asking each other a lot in deliberations. lol

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I just don't see how any juror can possibly doubt that this is absolutely a case of self defense and based on that give a verdict of "not guilty" on 2nd degree murder or any lesser charges.

What's to come???
Bernie on redirect: are you color blind, can't tell the difference between white and red?