Attorneys for George Zimmerman were expected to ask his judge this morning to order the state’s most important witness, the young Miami woman who was on the phone with Trayvon Martin just before he was shot, to produce medical records.
However, defense lawyer Don West made a startling claim shortly after the hearing began: The state had revealed, before the hearing, that there are no medical records.
The woman, the defense lawyer said, “misrepresented” in a sworn statement that she missed Trayvon’s funeral because she had been hospitalized.
“In fact, she lied,” West said.
Did he follow Trayvon?
In his call to police before the shooting, Zimmerman can be heard huffing and puffing as if he had been running or walking fast. "Are you following him?" the dispatcher asked. "Yeah," Zimmerman answered. "OK, we don't need you to do that," the dispatcher said. "OK," Zimmerman said.
But after the shooting, he offered a different reason for getting out of his truck. Serino pressed him for an explanation three days later. I was "just going in the same direction he was,"
Zimmerman said. He had exited his truck, he said, to get a street address for authorities. "Did you pursue the kid? Did you want to catch him?" Serino asked. "No," said Zimmerman. Serino challenged him further:
"How do you not know the three streets in your neighborhood [where] you've been living for three years?" Zimmerman replied that he had a bad memory and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Where the confrontation happened
In his first recorded interview with police the night of the Feb. 26 shooting, Zimmerman said Trayvon popped out at him from "the bushes." By the time he re-enacted the shooting less than 24 hours later, however, Zimmerman was much more precise, and the spot he pointed out had no bushes nearby. As he walked police through what happened where, he said Trayvon approached him from his left rear and at a spot near the intersection of two sidewalks.
But on Wednesday night’s broadcast, Zimmerman changed his story from what he told the dispatcher that night. He also said there was no way Martin was afraid of him. Here’s part of the transcript prepared by FOX News:
HANNITY: Why do you think that he was running then?
ZIMMERMAN: Maybe I said running, but he was more —
HANNITY: You said he’s running.
ZIMMERMAN: Yes. He was like skipping, going away quickly. But he wasn’t running out of fear.
HANNITY: You could tell the difference?
ZIMMERMAN: He wasn’t running.
HANNITY: So he wasn’t actually running?
ZIMMERMAN: No, sir.
HANNITY: OK. Because that’s what you said to the dispatcher, that you thought he was running.
The woman had told prosecutors she was in the hospital on the day of Trayvon's funeral. "In fact, she lied," defense attorney Don West said. The disclosure was one of two major developments Tuesday at what had been expected to be a dull hearing about the exchange of case evidence. The other: Zimmerman's lawyers will not hold a "stand your ground" hearing in April, one that could clear him of criminal wrongdoing before his trial. Defense attorney Mark O'Mara made that announcement in court, later saying he had not yet decided whether to scrap it entirely or roll it into Zimmerman's second-degree-murder trial set for June 10.there is another source for you op from a slightly more mainstream site,i guess they are debating charging her (travons gf) with perjury over this.
