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Plot, none of that stuff is true? >> the whole idea of hurting my wife or doing any of that stuff is very strange and very weird. none of that is true. >> reporter: in his closing statement, jeff schroder hoped he could convince at least one juror that, without a body, there was reasonable doubt. >> what evidence of that kind in this case do you have to demonstrate to you that venus stewart is dead? >> reporter: so what about all those purchases at walmart? doug stewart seen walking the aisles i...

In fact, you see the opposite. i think at this point the president is going to need to be a little more specific and a little more direct with the american people about what this threat to democracy is, and exactly who is doing it, exactly who is presenting legislation at the state level based upon the big lie, exactly what these plans are to disrupt a certification of a president. and i think the president has steered away. hes hesitated. he wanted to get on with his agenda, but at some point h...

Refused to take this case, who had familiarity based on employing one of the defendants, but then god there was another prosecutor who put on an unimpeachable case. they prove that the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that mr. arbery was hunted down, and killed by three men who never even told him why they were trying to stop him. jonathan, the defense was based on old georgia citizens arrest law that was dates back to slavery. when the law was first passed it authorized white citizens to capture ...

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Before. that day did you have any evidence that ahmaud arbery was doing anything, much less a felony? so that would concern me because if you dont implicate and use that statute then how do you justify detaining him, stopping him and otherwise killing him? if you dont have that, then you dont have self-defense. but heres another thing that should concern them greatly. what should concern them is the issue of self-defense. if youre the initial aggressor, you dont get the benefit. if youre engagin...

If you dont have that, then you dont have self-defense. but heres another thing that should concern them greatly. what should concern them is the issue of self-defense. if youre the initial aggressor, you dont get the benefit. if youre engaging in a felony like aggravated assault, like false imprisonment, you dont get the benefit of self-defense. and in the event youre provoking because youre pointing a rifle, you dont get that benefit. so that concerns me. last point. and that is on the issue o...

A sentence uttered by a defense attorney in the trial of those accused in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery brought an audible gasp from people in the courtroom Monday --

The defense attorneys for Gregory and Travis McMichael, who are charged with Arberys murder, repeatedly have tried to present Arbery as a criminal.

Be equally the gunman, right? the way that they -- that she was able to transfer and explain kind of detailed parts of the law, so that everybody could understand that this is, this is a law that goes right throughout our different judicial systems. >> jose, in her closing statement, the prosecutor schooled the jury on the law of self-defense in georgia. you cant start the fight and claim you were just defending yourself. if you create the situation, youre responsible for the consequences. all m...

"theres a black man running down the street." >> you know, so powerful, in part because there was a lot of evidence about the racism of the defendants that the prosecution couldnt get in, including literally smoking gun evidence that travis mcmichael, who was the actual shooter, after he pumped those three bullets into mr. arberys body, said the n-word. thats what he said. the jurors never heard about that. but when she has a theme in this closing statement and rebuttal, "whats your emergency?" ...