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Over. todays mark certainly the beginning of justice for trayvon martin, certainly not the end. lets turn to darryl a parks, attorney for the family of trayvon martin. mr. parks, thanks for your time tonight. what are your emotions at this hour? this has been a long month, no question about it. this has to be a very emotional moment for not only the family, but the team. what are you experiencing? >> oh, ed, it was a tremendous day. i have to tell you, when we talked to angela corey on the cell ...

Zimmerman has that a judge cant as a matter of law say, look, this doesnt even go to trial. preliminary hearing could actually solve that problem. the second issue is very clear, ed. the second issue is, this is a second-degree murder is is not a walk in the park writ cohere it to proof. theyre going to have to show that it was an unlawful killing. meaning that it wasnt justifiable homicide. second of all, that it was done with a depraved mind. and when you consider what a depraved mind is in fl...

There must be some things that we dont know. and thats fine. were not trying to be the lawyers or the prosecutors. we wanted to make the society and the criminal justice system take a second look at this. they have and these are the results. >> reverend al sharpton, thanks for your time on "the ed show" tonight. great work. thank you. >> thank you, ed. coming up, what will it take to convict george zimmerman of second-degree murder? ill talk to attorney mike papantonio and former prosecutor, d...

Walk in the park where it comes to proof. theyre going to have to show that it was an unlawful killing. meaning that it wasnt justifiable homicide. second of all, that it was done with a depraved mind. and when you consider what a depraved mind is in florida, what theyre talking about is extreme indifference to human life, malice. actually, it goes as far as saying that its a person so lacking in ordinary judgment that their conduct rises to extreme indifference. so this is not an easy charge. t...

Chris? >> thanks so much, thomas. and todays tweet of the day comes from stephen colbert. still gushing after his segment with michelle obama last night. "what a rush. having the first lady here. in that when i tried to shake her hand the secret service rushed me." oh, stephen. that wraps up this hour of "jansing & co." im chris jansing. tonight on "the ed show," vice president joe biden will be ed schultzs special guest. thats at 8:00 p.m. eastern, only on msnbc. thomas roberts is up next. ill ...

of the other shows on this network. but today is the day when whether or not you have been following this story closely, today is the day that this story became without a doubt, inarguably the most important thing you need to be up on in order to understand whats going on in our country right now. today is the day when the central fact of this story, the fact that made it a cause of national outrage, changed. a young unarmed man, a teenager, being shot and killed, will always be the ca...

following this story closely, today is the day that this story became without a doubt, inarguably the most important thing you need to be up on in order to understand whats going on in our country right now. today is the day when the central fact of this story, the fact that made it a cause of national outrage, changed. a young unarmed man, a teenager, being shot and killed, will always be the cause of grief and of outrage. but what has made theç trayvon martin case a cause for natio...

became without a doubt, inarguably the most important thing you need to be up on in order to understand whats going on in our country right now. today is the day when the central fact of this story, the fact that made it a cause of national outrage, changed. a young unarmed man, a teenager, being shot and killed, will always be the cause of grief and of outrage. but what has made the trayvon martin case a cause for national outrage is that the shooting and killing of an unarmed teenage...

angela corey was appointed as special prosecutor to trayvon martins case on march 23rd. she said there is only one objective in this case. >> hes troubled by the fact that the state decided to charge him, but ive talked to him about the process. i think anyone who would be charged with second-degree murder would be scared. >> george zimmerman is being held without bail. he has the right to seek bail in a hearing. zimmermans new attorney, marco omara, says his client will plead not guil...

on in our country right now. today is the day when the central fact of this story, the fact that made it a cause of national outrage, changed. a young unarmed man, a teenager, being shot and killed, will always be the cause of grief and of outrage. but what has made the trayvon martin case a cause for national outrage is that the shooting and killing of an unarmed teenager was not being treated as local authorities as a crime. a teenager was killed. there was an admitted and identified...