Starkly different testimony from two experts marked Thursday’s proceedings in the special hearing for a convicted mass murderer.

While the state says the evidence in the case makes Tommy Zeigler just as guilty today as he was 50 years ago, the defense painted a picture of sloppy work by police and prosecutors who got the wrong man.

“The trajectory went left to right in the abdomen,” said Ibrahim Garcia, a retired Miami Beach police homicide detective, while on the stand testifying on behalf of the defense.

He was the final defense witness in this evidentiary hearing for 80-year-old Tommy Zeigler, who was convicted and sent to death row for the Christmas Eve murders inside his Winter Garden furniture store.

The four victims were his wife Eunice, her parents Perry and Virginia Edwards, a

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