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Next month having that jury vet all of the evidence. >> so its six members of the jury in florida for a case of this nature thats a noncapital punishment case. martin family attorney benjamin crump, i can only say when we first started talking about this, you wanted a day in court. the family want addai in court. thats all they said -- thats all we protested for. those days have now come about, and well be watching. >> thanks for your time this evening. >> thank you, reverend sharpton and your a...

Of weeks. how do you feel about the jury selection process and a couple of weeks. what is your feeling about it, attorney crump? >> well, reverend sharpton, i do think that its going to take a significant amount of time. and the family is patient. they want to get a fair and impartial jury. theyre doing it where theyre trying to find out what pretrial publicity the jurors know about the case, have they formed any opinions or biases. and then once they determine that, then theyre going to impanel...

You have formed some particular opinions about this case. you have certain biases with respect to this case as well. thats the challenge of each side. the jury questionnaire is going to be extremely important for them to get the most key, pertinent information from these jurors that they would not be able to ask in open court setting. and a lot of times you can use that questionnaire to really gather some compelling information so that you can build your case based on some of the themes that com...

Gods arms. we ask that you continue to pray for trayvon and our family. thank you. >> a fair and impartial trial. thats all anyone has ever wanted in this case. today marks a new turn in a long road toward justice. joining me now is former prosecutor faith jenkins, former u.s. attorney kendall coffey, now msnbc legal analyst, and dr. marshall hennington, a nationally recognized trial and jury consultant. thank you all for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> faith, let me start with you. h...

Decided not to charge mr. zimmerman in the case. >> in this case, mr. zimmerman has made the statement of self-defense. until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we dont have the grounds to arrest him. >> this young man would have shot this man, would he have been arrested? he definitely would have been arrested. >> this guy was not arrested. i dont understand. as a mother, my heart is broken. >> as the controversy grew and the coverage went national, the president of the united sta...

His car, and that could have alleviated the whole thing. >> how per meant the is getting second-hand opinions going to be in jury selection? and how do you deal with this as you go through this process of jury selection? >> well, thats a great question, you know, reverend sharpton. the fact of the matter is everyone has heard about this case. everyone has formed a particular opinion about this case. and for any individuals to say that his girlfriend told him some information about the case but y...

Dispatcher told him to stay away. on the other hand, there is still reasonable doubt thats got to be overcome. so youre going to see the prosecution along with presenting that narrative focus on a couple critical points of evidence. one of them hasnt been ruled upon, reverend, and thats a question of whether the expert testimony on voice recognition about that 911 tape is going to be allowed. that is one of the big decisions that is yet to be made that could shape the course of this trial. >> no...

That the racial makeup of this jury is completely irrelevant. even if the attorneys dont address it that way that. >> know that that is going to be a part of this. and only 11% of that county is african-american. what you can get from that is youre not going have a racial imbalance in favor of an african-american jury here. but at the same time, the lawyers know they cannot strike jurors based on race, no matter what their race. the supreme court already decided that in bass versus kentucky in 1...

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