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Murderer is portrayed as the victim. welcome to america. tomorrow, closing arguments from the defense and george zimmermans fate is in the hands of the jury. the very latest where you tell me what you have to say about this explosive case thats tomorrow night. thats all for tonight. anderson cooper starts right now. the prosecution makes its closing pitch. good evening again. welcome to another "360" special report "self-defense or murder, the george zimmerman trial." today, the lead prosecuto...

Of 17-year-old trayvon martin at the hands of george zimmerman was, among other things, child abuse. >> obviously, the information alleges that the defendant shot and killed the victim, that the victim was under the age of 18. and child abuse must be, according to the third degree felony murder, instructioned. >> reporter: the defense attorney was outraged. >> oh, my god. just when i thought this case couldnt get anymore bizarre. >> reporter: the debate brought more testy exchanges between west ...

And thats not alleged in the information that way. and i just dont think that the evidence supports that. >> reporter: the pressure, now on mark ohara to close out the defenses case friday before it heads to the jury. martin savidge, cnn, sanford, florida. >> high stakes ruling, props, a power point presentation. even the prosecutor skipping around the room at one point. just about anything that can happen in the courtroom did happen today. plenty to talk about with our panel. sunny hostin and j...

Instruct them on the law. this judge is going to instruct them on the law, and this prosecution did go over what the law was, but they went with the facts. and their theory of the case. and it was very effective. prosecutors do it all the time and they do it successfully and effectively, just like this prosecutor did. >> i want to play another clip where he brought out that dummy you would call it. >> i guess i might as well do what everybody else has done. do you see what he is saying now? hes ...

Give him 45 seconds and he started going. >> sunny -- >> youre right, sunny. whatever you say. theres reality and then theres sunniville. >> lets play sunnys pick. >> the defendant assumed the victim didnt belong, didnt he? that the victim was committing or about to commit a burglary. he assumed and he profiled the victim as a criminal. he assumed that the victim was one of those that always got away. he assumed also that he was an "f"-ing punk. and that the victim was going to get away before t...

Wrong and he acted on those and in doing so, he killed him. i thought that was such a wonderful common sense argument that distilled what this case is about. this case is about whether or not someone who is not doing anything, who is acting completely unlawfully, should be able to be gunned down on a dark, rainy night. i think that came across. >> i want to play a clip from the closing argument. the prosecutor pulled out a gun for the closing argument. lets watch. >> he pulled out this gun from ...

There leafing through yellow pads, which is something lawyers do that i hate, i dont think it will be very effective. >> mark, mark ohara was saying hes lived with this case for a year and a half and doesnt need to write it down at this point. he knows what he wants to say. >> i will tell you something. i have a very small circle of friends that are almost all trial lawyers, and great trial lawyers. the great -- the guys who are the greatest at it can get up and they can just -- having lived the...

>> it sounds like hes trying to fudge it. >> this is a critical issue in the case. its over. the evidence is all in. and he cant say who was on top when, who started things? that i thought was indicative of a real weakness in the prosecutions case. >> sunny, it does kind of remind us of what we were talking about yesterday, the idea that the prosecution sort of changed their story about who was on top. they started off the trial saying one thing, that george zimmerman was on top and then just ye...

>> shouldnt civility mandate -- all counsel should relate that to each other. if youre going to charge somebody, you shouldnt argue that technically the facts support it. the attorneys should be placed on notice of it. theyve had a year to prepare. felony murder is a very different kind of crime than your lesser included offense that. s what was so unfair about it. felony murder is a different kind of defense than just a lesser included offense, which is all the same elements -- >> i was just go...

The same information before them. >> one at a time. >> shouldnt civility mandate -- all counsel should relate that to each other. if youre going to charge somebody, you shouldnt argue that technically the facts support it. the attorneys should be placed on notice of it. theyve had a year to prepare. felony murder is a very different kind of crime than your lesser included offense thats what felt so unfair about it. felony murder is a different kind of defense than just a lesser included offense,...