10:02 a.m.
West asks if she has listened to the recording with the cries for help in the background.

She says she has heard it on the news a couple of times.

West asks her about hearing two yells for help.

“I just always thought there was two,” she answers.

West asks about her looking out to see the men and seeing two figures.

“To me they both looked vertical,” she says.

West clarifies that she saw one on top of the other.

West asks when she thought it was a serious event.

She says when she shut her night light off and saw two men on the ground.

He asks her about the voice she first heard.

“Just someone talking really loud, because I could hear them even with my window closed,” she says.

West asks if she heard distress in the voice.

She says they were loud.

West suggests it could have been someone talking on a phone.

She says she thought it was a loud voice.

West asks about the time that might have passed.

She says she didn’t think it was 10 minutes, but more like five.

West asks if she assumed the voice she heard before belonged to the voices she heard later.

She says yes.

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MOM knew BDLR would redirect. Well played!

Hornsby is a defense attorney in Orlando.

Please don't feel depressed. I think the woman was thoroughly discredited. I think anyone with an open mind knows she was thoroughly discredited. That BDLR got up to re-direct means he needed to rehabilitate her because she had been discredited.

Here's my concern: The defense has been working on a shoestring. They have also been super tight on time, with the tight schedule. Maybe it wasn't that MOM was thrown off by her change in testimony, blatant lying. Maybe they didn't have the money or the time to thoroughly research the adverse witnesses. Hornsby tweeted that MOM had dirt on her, as if he was certain, and was freaking out that he wasn't using it. How he'd be so certain if he hadn't discussed it with him, or at least sent a message to MOM, I can't imagine.

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Maybe. But Hornsby was losing his mind on twitter.

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10:19 a.m.
West says he is trying to orient her and the jury as to where she heard the voices.

He shows an aerial photo of the complex. He points out the location of her home and the approximate location of the voices.

West asks her about the glare of her nightlight.

She says she can’t exactly pinpoint where the people were when she saw them, except the general area.

West asks about her seeing a person on top with a dark colored shirt on.

West asks about when she called police.

“Do you believe that, that you were looking at the men when the shot was fired?” West asks.

She says yes.

She says thinks she was on the phone with 911 when the shot was fired.

West asks about the 911 call and her time on the phone.

West asks about her telling the 911 operator that she can open the window.

She says she was absolutely sure she opened the window.

She says she called someone afterward.

She says after hearing the “pop, pop, pop,” the person was walking toward her window.

West demonstrates the movement she described seeing the person walking make.

West asks her if she ever saw pictures of Zimmerman’s injuries. She says no.

She says the neighbor was there first, and another person that looked like a police officer had Zimmerman put his hands up.

West asks if she saw Zimmerman “fully cooperative” with police.

She says she saw him put his hands behind his back.

West asks if she thinks she was watching during the gunshot and if she saw a muzzle blast.

Surdyka says she doesn’t know she’s never seen one.

West asks if she has ever watched a movie with a gun fired.

She says she doesn’t know what he is referring to.

De la Rionda objects to a question that it is speculation.

West asks if Surdyke knew where Martin was shot.

She says at the time no, but knows he was shot in the chest.

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10:27 a.m.
West asks if she can reconcile what she thinks she saw with the facts.

She says what she saw is all she can tell him.

West asks if she made certain assumptions.

He says one of them was about the voice she heard before and the ones later she heard arguing.

She says they were close and it was the same location.

He says she also assumed the confrontational, aggressive voice was Zimmerman’s.

She says “Yes, because he was a man.”

He asks about her belief that the other voice was Trayvon Martin.

She says yes.

“Or it could’ve been a man with a higher voice,” West asks.

De la Rionda objects based on asked and answered.

West asks if she assumed that the deeper voice was Zimmerman’s.

“Again, it sounded like a man’s voice, the louder aggressive voice,” she answered.

West continues asking about her identification of the voices.

De la Rionda objects.

Judge Nelson says it is another way to ask the same question.

West asks to get some water.

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Didn't she say the dark shirt person was on top?

She is the ultimate definition of a busy body.

And the above, friends, is her testimony in a nutshell.

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Yes

Having difficulties with interuptions on wild about trial, so went t WS and use their live links.

LOL, Traybots, days ago, posted how disrespectful for court attendees to chew gum during proceedings...well, land's sake, Sybrinia and Tracy were chewing cud all morning. Sybrinia only chews on her left side, must have moler problems...I know its catty, but I ust think she is trying so hard to portray a role when the camera is on her and she reaches down for tissue to dab at her false eyelashes.

She generally got it right, but got the participants mixed up based on thinking the younger person would have the higher voice and based on one getting shot, assuming that made them the victim, never an aggressor.

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Show trial !

I can see why this woman has never married and has no friends. Too needy.

10:39 a.m.
De la Rionda asks about the extent of the rain.

She says she doesn’t think it was pouring down rain and didn’t obstruct her view.

Court is in recess for 15 minutes.

10:38 a.m.
West asks if prior to the evening of Feb. 26, 2012, she had ever heard Martin’s or Zimmerman’s voice.

She says she had not.

He asks if she ever heard either person’s voice since.

She says no.

West asks about her saying to 911 that she wanted to remain anonymous.

She says she was shaken up so yes, she wanted that.

West asks “And that changed?”

Yes, she says.

West asks about her interview with Investigator Serino and the time frame she mentioned.

She says after it happened and she talked to a friend on the phone, she went out and talked to a neighbor who took her over to a police officer.

She says she was crying and the officer said she would send another one to her house.

She says an officer knocked on her back window and had her write down what she saw on a form.

She says they told her another officer, Officer Serino, would come talk to her later.

West asks about her comment that Serino never went up to look out the window she looked out from.

She says she made the comment.

De la Rionda objects twice.

West asks her if she would defer to his judgment. She says she can’t say.

West asks her about going out to talk to the police.

De la Rionda objects that it was asked and answered. Judge Nelson says “Alright, let’s get to the point,” after West says it’s leading to a point.

West asks her about a national television interview.

She says she was disguised.

West asks if she went on national television twice. She says no.

She says she saw the interview.

“The whole reason for this was that you thought it was Travyon Martin that was crying so desperately for someone to help him?” West asks.

She says she wanted to say what she saw and let people make their own judgments.

West takes a moment to speak with OMara.

He finishes questioning.

De la Rionda re-directs.

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