SANFORD, Fla. – During his opening statement in the case of Florida v. George Zimmerman Monday, Assistant State Attorney John Guy linked Trayvon Martin to the screaming that was heard on one 9-1-1 telephone call from a witness.
There were some 40 seconds of screams heard on the tape, and a witness when police arrived documented how he heard one man screaming while another man, a black man in a hoodie, was on top of him and beating him.
"You will hear screaming in the background," said Guy, who added, "Trayvon Martin was silenced immediately when the bullet fired passed through his heart."
The juxtaposition of the comment about screaming and Martin's "silence" may have been intended to link the two in the minds of jurors, a maneuver used often by defense attorneys to create "reasonable doubt."
But in his opening for the defense attorney Don West told the jurors that one thing all the witnesses could agree on was that they all heard "the screams of someone in a life-threatening situation needing desperately for someone to come to their assistance."
VIDEO and MUCH MORE STORY HERE: http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/prosecutor-links-screams-to-trayvon/?cat_orig=us
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