george zimmerman is not the only one in legal trouble in his family. his wife shellie has pleaded not guilty to lying about family finances in civil court. mark o'mara talks about that and just how much money this case has cost so far. >> why did george lie about the money that he had available at the bond hearing that was before the trial? >> it always sounds like i'm defending him when i shouldn't. of course, he didn't say a word at the bond hearing. shellie zimmerman said a couple words to the judge that were interpreted as being less than truthful. the only explanation i could give, and it sounds like i'm making an excuse, is if it were anyone who had put upon him what george had put upon him, where he had to leave his home, literally, that night. he never went back to his home after the night of the 26th. he was in hiding out of the state, couldn't go back to work, they had to let him go. his wife was released from going to classes as a nursing student. he had absolutely nothing. his mother and father had to leave their home. he got a bunch of money from his websi

i'm sorry, do you know shelly zimmerman as well? >> yes, i do. when i have you talk to the juriant your relationship, is it one that grew with you and your husband and george zimmerman and his wife? >> yes. >> okay. >> so as you are going through this, are you talking about the relationship that grew between the four of you? >> yes. mostly, it started out though with george. >> i want to object to using the survey. >> one thing i didn't talk about beforehand, in a courtroom, we have to be very careful with the record. so we need to use full names. so even though he may be known to you more familiarly if you would use his entire name mr. zimmerman or george zimmerman, i would appreciate it as would the court, if you would, using his name tell us. >> well, i first met george zimmerman through the real estate business that i was doing and i would refer my customer to his company he was working with and we got to know each other with the business relationship that way first and my offices are in the same building where his office was and we kept a ref

. >> and did you meet the defendant's wife shelly zimmerman there? i did. >> okay. ter the following morning, early morning of the 27th did you come into contact with the defendant, george zimmerman? >> yes, i did. >> okay. and did you transport him somewhere with his wife, shelly zimmerman? >> i did. >> did he make some statements to you regarding what he alleged happened regarding the shooting he was involved in? >> yes, he did. >> did he specifically state that that sunday night, the 26th he had -- was going shopping at target? >> correct. >> object, your honor, leading. >> sustained. >> okay. if you could, tell us what the defendant told you and let me set the setting if i could, you were with yourself and i believe you were driving is that correct? >> i drove myself -- >> i'm going to rephrase the question. i apologize. confusion on my part. when mr. zimmerman the defendant was telling you something about what happened, he was in the car with you is that correct. >> that is correct. >> were you driving? >> i was. >> and was his wife, shelly zimmerman with you an

but sources tell fox news there is only about five or six potential witnesses left, including shelly zimmerman zimmerman's wife. and trayvon martin's parents, t and his mom sabrina fulton. of those, mom is likely to take the stand next. she will do two things, one, tell a very emotional story about losing her son. remember the jury saul female. two, testify that screams heard on one of the 911 calls are those of her son. listen again to part of that 911 call. >> is it a male or female? >> it sounds like a male. >> and you don't know why? >> i don't know why i think they're yelling help but i don't know. >> send someone quick. >> does he look hurt? >> i can't see him. i don't want to go out there. i don't know what's going on. >> they're sending. >> also know as they listen to the screams on that call that tracy martin trayvon's dad once said first those were not his son's screams and then later he changed his mind. shep? >> shepard: can you imagine a world in which george zimmerman would actually testify on his own behalf? >> yeah. you have got to remember during this trial the jury has alread

he also housed george and shellie zimmerman for a time after the shooting and wrote a book about the case. >> you wrote a book where you quoted what the defendant, george zimmerman, told you, correct? >> correct. >> and you recall in that book writing, do you have a problem with that, that's what he said trayvon martin said? >> right. correct. >> reporter: in that book, osterman said zimmerman tried to reach for the weapon on his hip, actually touching the gun. >> the defendant is claiming that the victim actually grabbed the gun, grabbed the -- >> that was my understanding, that he grabbed the gun. >> reporter: but a latent print technician found no trace of martin's prints but conceded rain or other factors could have washed prints away. >> so that fingerprints may have existed on an item that you have a list from a latent from and there be no latents whatsoever, correct? >> correct. >> even though it's been handled by two or three people? >> that's correct. >> reporter: osterman wrote that zimmerman jumped on the teen's back after the shooting and held down martin's hands, fearing

shellie zimmerman has been charged with perjury. that's still to bed a us ed adj there had. and then the claims that the prosecution was underhanded with evidence. sanctions have been requested. that has to be worked through. >> and i'll ask if the department of justice comes in, is that double jeopardy. it is not. >> this would be federal charges of a different kind. so that's why it's not considered double jeopardy. will it happen, we'll have to wait and see. i think emotions are still high. the thing is about this case is that people may have hoped this would resolve issues of race and guns, that this would resolve many of the social issues people have all discussed. it was a trial that focused on two men at a specific moment under florida law. it will not solve deep social issues in this country. >> that's a big burden for any one case. >> too much to ask. >> thank you very much, martin. appreciate that. and speaking of those issues about civil rights and all of that, civil rights leaders are reacting with shock and frustration at the verdict. jessie jackson gave his tak

the entire thing was a politically driven case, and there's the wife, shellie zimmerman, who had her mmerman, who had her own issues with the court after the first bond hearing of george zimmerman, then it was divulged that the two of them were talking somewhat in code while zimmerman, george zimmerman, was still in the jail here behind the courthouse, and all of those more than $100,000 in donations had come in, and they were trying to plead basically poverty stricken and get him out of court. >> we are showing this group that's growing with the posters and what not here. tell us about it. >> these are some local activists, all african-american, there's about 20 of them there, they have been surrounded by certainly more media than they represent. some of the signs say such things as justice for trayvon, 400 years of legal lynchings was another one. they're just getting attention. no justice, no peace. they're clearly supporters of trayvon martin, meaning they're supporters of this jury finding george zimmerman guilty of second degree murder or manslaughter. they say they're very peac

on top of that the perjury charge placed against shellie zimmerman for apparently lying under oath, thatved. then there's the question whether the prosecution make how acted improperly during the trial and did not hand over all the discovery. the defense is asking for sanctions there. then on top of that, of course, is the issue of civil rights and whether the

in an undisclosed house or apartment with his wife more than a year for their own safety, and shellie zimmerman has a perjury charge for lying to the court about finances in her husband's initial bond hearing. they also need to have source of income, shellie and george haven't been working, say nobody would hire them with all of the uproar the past year. they have been living on donations from people around the country for more than a year, so they're going to have to get some jobs. also have the u.s. justice department on-going civil rights investigation. this afternoon, the justice department announced that's still not over. they're still examining whether george zimmerman violated 17-year-old trayvon martin's civil rights back then, when he followed him, called him suspicious, and of course, charlie ee rang he will in new york and couple other representatives are having a news conference in d.c. tomorrow to urge doj to keep forward. >> phil keating, thank you very much. watch for more of my interview today with george zimmerman's brother. and one of the attorneys representing trayvon martin'

we're not going to hear from george zimmerman and we're also not going to hear from his wife, shellie zimmerman well, if what mark o'mara said holds up. we should note here that right now you're looking at another sidebar inside the courtroom here in sanford. presumably after this sidebar, they are going to continue the hearing they started this morning, that hearing over this animation that the defense wants to introduce. this is a hearing that started at 8:30. at about 10:15, judge nelson threw her hands in the air and said, enough already. i want to bring the jury in. so she postponed the remainder of that hearing until later that afternoon. the state is supposed to start in that hearing. the state said it will take him at least 45 minutes. so at this point they may be talking about whether to proffer these witnesses or whether to go ahead and spend the next 45 minutes on trying to wrap up that animation hearing as well. again, going back to the timeline, martin, after the judge rules on whether that animation is in after the proffering of these two expert witnesses, they could move in to wr

do you know george and shelly zimmerman? >> yes. >> tell me how you met george. >> i met georgie at a mortgage company called first trust back in 2006. >> okay. and was that a place where you've worked together? >> yes. >> and what type of work did you do back then? >> mortgage business. >> and was mr. zimmerman doing something similar? >> yes. he was in the sales and i was processing. >> okay. did you guys become friends over the time that you work together? >> yes. >> did you maintain that friendship? >> yes. >> and is that friendship that brings you here today, is that correct? >> yes, it is. >> and i know that you were present or around during the time both preceding the event that brings us here and of course right after the event, correct? >> that's correct. >> what i'd like to do, houweve, today, is just focus your attention on one subject of that. that is the, we are calling the lawer 911 tape to identify to you that's the tape that has a voice in the foreground, turns out her name is miss lawer. voices in the backgr

on top of that the perjury charge placed against shellie zimmerman for apparently lying under oath, that needs to be resolved. then there's the question whether the prosecution make how acted improperly during the trial and did not hand over all the discovery. the defense is asking for sanctions there. then on top of that, of course, is the issue of civil rights and whether the dealt of justice will pursue charges that way. there's still a lot to be worked out. >> martin savidge, what has life been like for george zimmerman, if you've talked to anybody in his legal group or family and friends. what do they think life for him will be like? >> it is an amazing question to ponder. george was the first to jump up when the jury was brought back in. once the verdict was rendered, it shifted. it moved back to the family of sybrina and tracy martin, because the parents of trayvon martin they suffer a grief now. yet george is exonerated. but his attorneys will tell you he'll never have a normal life again. he's in hiding still and will have to remain there. can he get a job? how will he get a job

ultimately charged zimmerman and zimmerman's gladys zimmerman sat in the first row next to wife shelly zimmerman and while clearly disagreeing with almost everything leveled at their son and husband, they did not show it. tomorrow is the defense's turn, 8:30 a.m. eastern time right here at the courthouse in sanford. shep, back to you. >> shepard: phil keating at the courthouse for us. thank you. george zimmerman's entire future is going to come down to what the six women of the jury decide in the coming days, whether they believe that he was defending himself against trayvon martin or committing a crime. we have never seen a juror's faces on tv but our producers in the courtroom are watching him closely and they tell us all about him. for one thing, they have been paying a lot of attention, taking a lot of notes. today we're told that they were standing at one point as that doll was out. paying very close attention. all of them except one are white. five of them have children. the members of the jury include a nursing assistant, a property manager and animal rescuer along with a retiree, a stay

as he's attempting to explain to shelly zimmerman what happened, he said, look, there's been a shootingrrupts him and says just tell her i shot someone. and for the prosecution that is an excellent peek into george zimmerman's mindset. he's cold. he's disconnected. he doesn't care, ah, just tell her i shot somebody. on the reverse and i'm going to respectfully disagree with paul callan, one of those scream witnesses that the defense called was a medic in vietnam, and he has a skill set that probably nobody else in the world has. he says i know what it's like to listen to my buddies speak in a normal voice and then i know what it's like to hear that same person screaming for their life, screaming in terror, screaming in pain. and so i think he brought a little bit of credibility that nobody else could. because who else has experienced that. and he listened to the tape and he said to me that's george zimmerman, and if you believe him, john, if you believe that sill s skill set, gives him unique knowledge. if zimmerman is the one screaming for help, then the self-defense claims stands, bec

what will life be like for george and shelly zimmerman now?> i don't know -- that would be a question. i don't know he would know how to answer this yet. this is the first sunrise first day of living his life as a free an exonerated man. he will have to learn about move about society and meaningful engage people. >> harris: safety has been an issue. is safety an issue there? >> that has always been on george's mind. we get threatened routinely on twitter and social media all the time. >> harris: we wish your family the best. you have been through it. justice and the president is saying this. we hope things stay peaceful. thank you for coming on. rob zimmerman, jr.. >> gregg: during the trial, jurors heard sean hannity's exclusive interview as evidence by the prosecution. you can see that interview again in the entirety airing on hannity tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> growing questions about the media media's handling, mark o'mara suggesting the media had its own agenda and unfairly turned on his client from the very beginning. >> you g

zimmerman to be here and shelly zimmerman was here by herself, that she requested mr. donnelly to join a -- i guess the row behind her. that's just so you understand how this whole thing began with mr. donnelly coming in to offer support to ms. zimmerman. insurgence, since i had never met him, mr. west i think met him at his deposition, but we had certainly not pre-tried him as a witness, because just so you're clear, we had no intention of calling him. that sort of comes in mind with the suggestion that we had any connivance. with the fact -- and there was a technical violation of the rule, the question is, what is the remedy? before you consider any remedy, i think you need to find that not only was a there a technical violation, there was a true substantive violation. and there's been no finding of that, there's been no evidence or suggestion of that, and in reality, we know what his testimony was, because it was quite limited, limited to testimony that he created, if you will, on saturday -- >>> mark o'mara, the defense attorney for george zimmerman making the case

also one other case is shelly zimmerman perjury case, which would also be tried in sanford. i thought that was statement was so jarring. >> we're talking about what the next step might be. to answer that, i'll bring in two attorneys, benjamin crump. thank you for joining us. benjamin, i'll start with you. can you just tell us -- i'm sure you've been in communication with the family since last night. what is their mood like? what are you hearing right now? >> well, initially when the verdict came, they were heart broken. it's painful. the killer of their unarmed son was not held accountable so they're trying to make sense of it all and trying to think about positive stuff. they have a foundation and they're going to work on that and try to figure out how to preserve trayvon's legacy because his death was not in vein. as they have said, they will continue to vow to fight for him. >> the immediate questions from a legal standpoint, one directly involves you. this is a decision to pursue civil charges. where does that stand right now? >> well, right now they are dealing with thi

enforcement, he advised george zimmerman to buy a gun and he at one point housed george and shellie zimmerman at the very beginning of the whole controversy. and the issue that's talked about on the stand is the gun, who was reaching for the gun. he recounts what george zimmerman told him. he actually wrote about it in a book in which he says that trayvon martin was reaching for george's gun on his hip and actually got a hand on it. listen to that exchange. >> trayvon martin went for the gun, correct? >> grabbed for the gun. >> i think you quoted him as saying he took his hand that was covering my nose and went for the gun saying something at that point, correct? >> he did. >> he said -- what words did he utter? >> he said "you're going to die" and used the mf term again. i'm sorry i don't like to curse in front of ladies. >> and he used the term "you're going to die [ bleep ]" correct? >> correct. >> and you quoted him on page 29, under quotations "somehow i broke his grip on the gun when the guy grabbed it between the rear sight and the hammer. >> that's where the leather strap is, though.

i mean, we're getting to her conversation with shellie, george zimmerman's wife. we don't know yet what that is. there is a hearsay objection. if she's going to say what shellie said, that would be hearsay unless it falls under one of the many exceptions, like an excited utterance. so i'm anxious to hear what your reaction is. >> i wonder if they want a black witness to speak to who he is. thanks to lisa, seema, patrick and paul, our entire team. we continue to pick up the george zimmerman trial after this break. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pass the land and water back to future generations. people should make up their own mind what's best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us. humans. we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that's why liberty mutual insurance has your back, offering exclusive products like optional better car replacement, where if your car is totaled, we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. call... and ask an insurance expert about all our benefits today, like our 24/

shel shel shellie zimmerman smiled broadly and hugged supporters by her side in the florida courtroom >> nationwide protest! nationwide protest! >> outside the courtroom, though, much more emotional response. a small crowd chanted, calling for nationwide protests against the verdict. protesters also hit the streets in a number of big cities across the country, but the crowds remained relatively small. important to note, really, none of the violence. there was a fear that there would have been violence following the verdict, but no real violence that we've seen so far, and everyone is happy because of that. >> good news on a tough night, to be sure. >> yes. >> now, the jury of six women deliberated for 16 1/2 hours, two days before finding george zimmerman not guilty and none of them has spoken publicly. >> but plenty of people are weighing in on why they think the prosecution's case didn't stick this time. let's bring in defense attorney and former prosecutor tanya miller as well as criminal defense attorney danny sevalos. thanks for coming in. i'm sure a late night for you. tanya, ev

sitting behind george zimmerman, his wife shellie, his father, robert, his mother, gladys, and on the other side of the prosecution's side, you hat special prosecutor angela corey in there, norton bonaparte, the city manager of sanford, and also, of course, just like every single day of the trial you have sybrina fulton and tracy martin, the now divorced parents of trayvon martin, who from the get-go, just simply wanted an arrest to be made and let justice run its course. they have always said, we don't want a conviction. we're not saying we must have a conviction. we just want a jury to decide whether our son died because of murder or perhaps contributed to his own death in a true act of self-defense. >> phil, hang in there want to show you a tape from 20 minutes ago when bernie de la rionda got on top of the foam dummy. tell us what was going on inside the courtroom. >> what exactly is bernie de la rionda doing? >> he is literally on top of ofoam dummy. he is talking -- do we hey sound? all right. anyway, so he puts the don't, gets on top, makings a couple comments, picks the dummy

zimmerman's self-described best friend testify about the days after the shooting because zimmerman and his wife, shellywith osterman and his wife. lisa bloom is watching this testimony. how strong of a witness he is defending and talking about george zimmerman in the time and weeks after the shooting? >> based on what i've seen so far, i think it was a mistake for the prosecution to call this witness because now on cross examination, we're getting into how devastating it was for's family after the shooting, something the defense, i'm sure, wants to bring out in as much detail as possible to show there was sadness and remorse on zimmerman's side. don't see this as much of a benefit for the prosecution. >> paul, how about for you? what's your reaction to this witness? again this is a person that wrote a book about his time living with george zimmerman and his wife after the shooting death of trayvon martin. >> and clearly, the jury is paying attention to that, too. i'm surety first flag that goes up when they call him and he indicates not only is he zimmerman's best friend but he has written this book. t

. >> reporter: george zimmerman was a free man. behind him his wife shelly sobbed in relief, prosecutors sat ten feet away looking dazed. attorneys mark o'mara and don west defended the verdict. >> we are ecstatic with the results. george zimmerman was never guilty of anything except protecting himself in self-defense. i'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. >> reporter: prosecutor bernie de la rionda insisted zimmerman had profiled trayvon martin. >> who was following who, isn't that what this case boils down to that was our theory. we respect the jury's verdict but what it boiled down to was a kid minding his own business being followed by a stranger. >> reporter: 16 hours after deliberations began, jurors rejected the state's murder and manslaughter charges. martin's parents in court to hear every day of testimony were absent for the verdict. they declined to be interviewed afterwards. tracy martin, the teenager's father talked to us on the eve of the trial. he said a not guilty verdict would be hard to accept. >> still goi

the courthouse back to the secret location where he and his wife, shellie, have been living for the past year. i mean, for george zimmerman, in all practical purposes, has been living in hiding since days after he shot and killed trayvon martin 16 months ago. first he left the gated community to avoid being hounded by the media, then as the death threats came in, they've been living somewhere in seminole county. that was other bond requirement by the jump, that and a gps ankle bracelet and the 10:00 curfew, but somewhere seminole county they had they're own private security officer hanging outside the house to make sure nobody figured out where they were living show. future for george zimmerman, whether they leave central florida and move somewhere else, they have to get jobs, they need a sources of income. they have been living off donations so a lot of being decisions ahead. now, the parents of george zimmerman this afternoon releasing a statement on the internet saying, quote: although we have always known our son was not guilty, the state of florida utilized significant resources to conduct a clearly malicious, unfoun

zimmerman? >> correct. >> as far as that friendship you were contacted on the night this event happened? >> i was. >> offered your help when, i guess helped shellyith what she was going through? >> near hysterical? he was visiting her father's home at the time when she received a call from a neighbor from twin lakes and she immediately called me both of us got into our vehicle and arrived a twin lakes within about ten seconds of each other. >> how upset was she? >> hysterical. she had almost no information to go on because the neighbor that called had -- they had hung up so she couldn't get further updates as to george's health or status. i put my arm around her to keep her from blacking out, i guess. >> at that point she had gotten a phone call from somebody who said that george was involved in a shooting, correct? >> she told me that she got call that said george was involved in a shooting, in handcuffs and bloody. >> i want to bring something up while we're watching the testimony. i think it's a critical piece of information even though it's not on the record and not testimony. many people will tell you that trials are shows. they are shows t

zimmerman looked like hours after the attack. have a listen. >> we get into my vehicle. both shelly and george got into the back.had a four-door vehicle. they got into the back. shelly is trying to put an assessment on the injuries that were to george's nose, the back of his head. he had a swelling on his left side of his head. about the size of your fist. it was a swollen area. not really a goose egg. it was a very big swelling area. >> back with me live here in sanford, florida at the criminal justice center is mark nejame. he's been watching this case since it began last february. when you hear that testimony and when you see those pictures, they blew them up this big and showed them all around court and described them and left them for the jurors to see on the back of george zimmerman's head. it's not lost that there is a guy who did get beaten up. he got beaten up that night. you can see on the evidence these are right after the actual incident. his nose is bloody. the black eye came the next day. the butterfly bandages came the next day. you know there was a fight. his friend has called him det h detached.

zimmerman took hands with his lawyers. behind them in the gallery his wife shelly went. trayvon martin's parents were not in the courtroom when the verdict was read. outside the courthouse 100 demonstrators reacted bitterly. most of them wanted a murder conviction. people also protested the verdict as far away as san francisco. since zimmerman shot the unarmed teenager 17 months ago, this racially charged case and its claim of self-defense have divided american public opinion. mark omara is one of zimmerman's defense lawyers. >> obviously we are ecstatic with the results. george zimmerman was never guilty of anything except protecting himself in self-defense. i'm glad that the jury saw it that way. >> prosecutors looked ashen after the verdict was read. the state prosecutor. >> it boils down you have a 17-year-old kid who is minding his own business wearing a hoody and gets accosted, gets followed by an individual who wants to be a cop. >> reporter: tracy martin, the teenager's father tweeted his reaction. even though i am broken hearted my faith is unshatterd. i will al

zimmerman looking pretty upbeat. he's smiling a lot. he's got his family and extended family there, his wife shelly, his mother and father, as well as somene, gray life-size silhouette cutouts of two individuals presumely to represent george zimmerman and trayvon martin on the night of their encounters last year. and there is also a little square piece of concrete to represent that sidewalk walkway back where the dog walking area is in the gated community where george zimmerman was a neighborhood watch leader. and of course, where he claims trayvon martin attacked him, jumped out of the darkness at him, started beating him up, knocked him to the ground, was pummeling him and knocking his head into the concrete. expect without a doubt for mark o'mara for the pictures taken of george zimmerman hours after the shooting where it appears he's got maybe a broken nose, blood trickling down from his nose and on the bask his head, those two lacerations which he says came from hitting his head on the back of that concrete and he says that's his self-defense claim, that he really had a reasonable fear for his life at that moment that he could eithe

zimmerman. >> he had absolutely no reaction at that moment. >> right, yeah, when you looked at his face i was not even sure he had heard it quite. there was no reaction. his wife, shellyre, she began to cry quietly. and then we looked over and it was noticeably obvious, trayvon martin's parents who had been there throughout, trayvon martin and sabrina fulton. test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test . >> we are just heartbroken really right now. we ask that you keep them in your prayers. >> george zimmerman has been silent. but it was mark o'mara, his lawyer, that spoke out. >> we are ecstatic with tehe results, george zimmerman was never guilty. i am glad the jury saw it that way. >> and this is really not the end for george zimmerman as we have been talking about this on the panel the last hour. there could be other charges against zimmerman? >> yes, that is absolutely right. there has been a request by the naacp that there be an investigation into the possibility of civil rights violation, the breaking of civil rights, trayvon martin, due to george zimmerman's actions. the department of justice says they have been investi

zimmerman's wife, sh had ellie. >> what was his appearance? >> stunned. he attempted to immediately reassure shelliewn. a sobbing breakdown and immediately tried to reassure her he was okay. he was more occupied with her than anything else. but he had a stunned look on his face. >> when you say stunned, tell us -- >> wide eyed. just kind of, kind of a little bit detached. perhaps from maybe not realizing he had just gone through a traumatic event. >> live to the courtroom when things begin to heat up, again. a team of reporters and analysts to break down all of today's testimony. but let's begin as usual cnn's george howell is outside the courthouse in sanford, florida. morning, george. >> carol, good morning. let's go right into the courtroom right now where you can see we are in the middle of a hearing where prosecutor rich mantei having certain evidence as admitted into this court regarding george zimmerman's school records. they are talking about several different items. the ride along that he did at one point. information about that. also his school transcript and an application to prince willi