Prosecutors in Trayvon Martin's murder trial are seeking to have George Zimmerman's past 911 calls admitted into evidence.
Richard Mantei said the calls are necessary to understand Zimmerman's state of mind in the minutes before he fatally shot Trayvon Martin in February 2012. The calls show that Zimmerman had growing ill-will toward people walking in or near his gated Sanford neighborhood, Mantei told Circuit Judge Debra Nelson.
With jurors out of the Seminole County courtroom, the calls were played aloud in court for Nelson. In the calls, Zimmerman describes the people he considered suspicious as black males.
The defense is falling all over itself to keep them out, claiming they aren't relevant to the Martin shooting. They have really good reason to be scared to death of those tapes. It goes without saying that these tapes would prove Zimmerman was indeed profiling people he saw on the neighborhood watch. Additionally, a good number of those calls were non-emergency in nature. That would be one more strike against Zimmerman's credibility. Remember, the judge who previously had this case essentially called Zimmerman a liar.
Nelson doesn't have a timetable for issuing a ruling yet. Seems to me this could loom pretty large, though.