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I have told counsel before, first of all, no one talks over the other. please dont go off focus here. >> no -- >> dont "no, no" me either. >> here style may be a turnoff to some, but to attorney nejame, who has presented cases before judge nelson, its a breath of fresh air. >> this case could easily have unravelled. it could have easily imploded. shes going to let everybody who was in charge and its going to be her. >> reporter: she wasnt originally chosen for the case. she replaced another judg...

Happens all the time. i get the argument. so why, if you believe -- and wouldnt you agree with me that a prosecutors duty is to only seek convict shups on charges that you ethically can prove beyond a reasonable doubt? >> totally agree. >> if that is the case, and you thought you could prove the second degree, why should you be allowed, absent the defendant agreeing to it, why should you be allowed at the last minute to ask for something less? >> because the law provides for it. >> theres no sil...

Because george zimmerman profiled him. he profiled him as a idecrimina. he made all these assumptions about trayvon martin that were 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 ...

>> exactly. because i think you have six women on the jury. five of them are mothers. and it shakes i think your very core as a persona someone could see your child walking down the street and make all of these false assumptions just because of the way that he looks. and i think it was really important for the prosecution to hone in on that, because that is what is wrong fundamentally about this case. trayvon martin was doing nothing wrong yet he was profiled. he was followed. he was targeted. a...

They told you. remember, a criminal case is a lawsuit. the prosecutor is the plaintiff. the defense is representing the defendant. except its not for money, its for your liberty. and so when you file this lawsuit, and youre defending against it, youre not supposed to be ambushed. thats what this morning was. this morning was basically another of the prosecutorial ambushes. one of the reasons why its totally unfair to have lessers, if the defendant doesnt agree to it, because the prosecution has ...

Bets. theyre inconsistent with their own position, which is if theyre arguing creepy guy forms neighborhood watch and is too interested in the neighborhood, its hard to say theres nothing wrong with forming a neighborhood watch. everything until now. you can hear him saying thats what he did, thats okay. if its okay, why are you arguing it? why is it part of your argument. the jims of your argument is, this case began months ago, when george zimmerman formed this hatred for people in his neighbo...

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, a very small circle of friends that are almost all trial lawyers and great trial lawyers. and the great -- the guys who are the greatest at it can get up -- and having lived the case, they can emote, modulate, they can talk from the heart and they get up there and they will connect with the jury. thats what they do. theyre having a conversati...

Other situation without a cop who is doing the shooting and killing somebody, they arrest first and ask questions later. i think that the prosecution has been on their heels the entire time because they didnt know what to make of this case because it was foisted upon them. i also think that theres a certain prosecutorial schizophrenia. they say on one hand that the 17-year-old, they keep calling him a boy and talk about the skittles and everything else and i agree with that except these are the ...

Definitively it was george zimmerman on top? >> well, because at points george zimmerman was on top, and at points trayvon martin was on top. this was a fluid altercation. whats most important is, how did it start? it started because of the false assumptions that george zimmerman made. and thats what i -- and i think whats wonderful about the prosecution is being very transparent about the fact that there was clearly an altercation but that different people saw different things and it was a flui...

Teleprompter or anything else. they have lived with the case. they have to convey that to the jury. >> i want to get your take on how the judge is doing in this trial, judge debra nelson. were taking a closer look, coming up. im the next american success story. working for a company where over seventy-five percent of store management started as hourly associates. theres opportunity here. i can use walmarts education benefits to get a degree, maybe work in it, or be an engineer, helping walmart c...