SANFORD, Fla., July 3 (UPI) -- An attempt to have a witness testify via Skype in the George Zimmerman murder trial in Florida elicited laughter when numerous incoming calls interrupted him.
Scott Pleasants, a professor at Seminole State College, was trying to testify from Colorado about his contact with Zimmerman as one of his students in 2010 when a slew of incoming calls from the public to Pleasants' Skype account made it impractical, WFTV, Orlando, reported. Presiding Judge Debra Nelson ordered prosecutors to halt the testimony until the video connection could be re-established on another phone line.