SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The judge in the George Zimmerman murder trial will hear arguments from attorneys about whether to allow evidence about a college criminal justice course he took that included course work on Florida’s self-defense law.

Judge Debra Nelson is hearing the arguments from attorneys today outside the jury’s presence.

The prosecution said the school records will show that Zimmerman had knowledge of the law, though the neighborhood watch volunteer maintained in an interview with Fox News last year that he didn’t. The interview was played for the jury Tuesday.

Prosecutors also are seeking to introduce a job application Zimmerman made to a police agency in Virginia in 2009 and an application to ride around with Sanford police officers in 2010.

Defense attorneys believe the items are irrelevant and will be asking the judge to disallow them. They referred to the prosecution’s efforts to introduce them as “a witch hunt.”

The judge said she would rule later in the week.

Zimmerman, 29, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman has said he shot the 17- year-old Martin in selfdefense last year after they got into a fight in a Sanford, Fla., gated community.