The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

prefer to go with the healthcare worker that treated Zimmerman who said there was no trauma. Everybody else is only "guessing" about the depth of injury.

Does it matter what tests were run about internal injuries?

Who says so? You?

It's up to the attorneys participating in the trial to bring up those issues.

Just speaking as a lay person, which is all I am obviously, you would think if someone's head was being banged repeatedly on concrete there would be bigger abrasions, enough for stitches or something.

This is the problem with the judge denying Martins txt's be allowed into evidence. If those text's show that Martin liked to fight and did it often, it blows the helpless Martin theory out of the water. It would show that Martin had no qualms about starting fights.

can have internal concussions without any abrasions at all.

No you wouldn't. Concrete is a flat surface, not a sharp, edgy surface. So why would Zimmerman suffer any abrasions if his story is true, if Martin pushed him straight down onto the pavement, and if Zimmerman's head did not rub sideways across it?

She testified his injuries were minor based on her examination of him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's the difference between a hematoma, which is above the skull between the skin.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right. Hematoma outside the skull --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Correct.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- resolve itself sort of between the skull and the skin.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Correct.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And then, subdural and epidural is you actually have gone below the skull and you just in that dura which is what cushions (ph) the brain.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Correct.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you can have -- injuries like this could certainly cause an epidural or subdural hematoma, correct?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not necessarily the lacerations, themselves, but if there was head trauma, completely.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm sorry. So, if I just went up to this head and cut it with a razor blade or a scalpel, that would not, you would imagine, cross a subdural or epidural hematoma?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But if I took that same skull, unless, I smashed it on concrete, sufficiently enough to cause that injury. So, smash might be (INAUDIBLE), but getting that injury by having your head hit against cement, could that cause a subdural epidural hematoma?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That could, depending on how hard the impact was.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. And that would, in fact, be an injury below the skull in the area where the brain is.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Correct.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Which is one of the reasons why you do what you do in your evaluation to make sure that he can still focus his eyes and still speak because your concern at that point with any head trauma that there may be some brain injury.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Correct.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And your charge then at that point is to rule out that possibility, though, you would agree that possibility exists whenever you have an injury like this.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It can, yes.