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Rosenguard, a former federal prosecutor, matthew, good morning. >> good morning. >> walk us through the deliberation process and tell us how this jury boils this down to not guilty? >> well, i think initially as i said at the outset of this case is it came down to reasonable doubt and reasonableness. i think putting aside social commentary and social media, i think the jury methodically walked through the jury instructions, which i have, initially ruled out second degree murder. i think the comm...

Victim. almost even subconsciously to believe it couldnt happen to your child. >> with the jurys composition and from watching this, is there something you think the prosecutors could have done in presenting their case thatted my have boded a different outcome? >> yeah, i think a couple things happened here. when we interview jurors after trials in criminal cases, reasonable doubt is a pretty high burden. a couple of the other commentators said, we may never know what happened. thats the case wi...

Juries, leaning forward, taking notes. now we really get to find out what are they thinking about? what evidence do they want to see? do they indicate what part of the law confuses them? ultimately do they indicate any sort of deadlock. we learn a lot from jury notes. >> they quickly asked to look at all the evidence. thats pretty standard stuff. >> doesnt surprise me, but as some commentators have observed it msnbc they will take it very seriously and go through all the evidence instead of clos...

It. he was pretty thorough and emotional and he has his strategy and plans. i dont know what they are necessarily, but they carry the burden and seems to me that he told the jury all the things that probably need to do to establish the elements that they need to prove, whether he did or not well find out in a couple days. >> invoking martin luther king there, a good strategy or not to bring race front and center into this trial when people have been perhaps tackfully trying to avoid that? >> wel...

Oreilly, are you convicting the boston bomber much like the media convicted george zimmerman. let the facts come out first. are you rip van winkle, norm? the facts are out. many witnesses, including all of us who watched on national tv know it. get a grip. greenville, tennessee. retired defense attorney, i was surprised that your legal commentators missed a big one. the reason the judge asked george zimmerman directly if he would testify, is to avoid a later appeal saying that his attorneys de...

And children. taking them to holding pens, where they will be awaiting deportation. is that your vision, jim? because thats what enforcing existing laws would mean. marie, connecticut. hey, bill, beckel doesnt know what hes talking about, and neither do you. as soon as obama get his hands on the immigration bill and sees something on he wants to change, hell change it, just like obama care. old orchard beach, maine. oreilly, are you convicting the boston bomber much like the media convicted ge...

Area. i feel in this case there is no gray area. some commentators are in line with saying it is masterful and others saying it is a debacle and the prosecution case was the defense case. danny, start with you and comment on that. >> first of all, the prosecutors, the defense attorneys, you dont get to choose your facts. they have done a terrific job with what i think anybody would say are very difficult facts. i think the prosecution has done a terrific job. the defense has done a terrific job....

Second. the media had zimmerman convicted of first degree murder before we saw this evidence, if we didnt have cameras in there and we had people inside reporting on it and they come out and there is an acquittal of george zimmerman without knowing there is no strong case by the prosecution, the community leaders would be in uproar. they would be calling for george zimmerman to be killed on the street. this is one case where i think the cameras in the courtroom are really helping to keep the pea...

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On the part of one individual. >> isnt that the theme of the prosecution? isnt that the theory of their case, that this accused mr. zimmerman started with assumptions, profiled martin, killed him, and lied about it? ken? >> reverend, the reason that he does not get an a plus and gets a c-plus to a b-minus in my opinion, is assumption is a wimpy word. zimmerman didnt make assumption on that night. he made prejudgments. he prejudgments with this young man with a hoodie as being a criminal. he prej...