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During its closing arguments the defense attorney mark omara reminded jurors about the witnesses using the slide show. he talked about the 7-eleven clerk and trayvon martins friends and neighbors among others. who was the most effect, back with our legal panel, trent copeland, and paul callan and susan constance teen and holly hughes a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. paul, lets start with you, you say george zimmermans neighbor was most effective for the defense, why? >> actuall...

Theyre very, very effective. a good portion of the closing argument he used photographs of each witness and said something about each witness. and it was flashed on a screen before the jury. very effective. the computer animation, i did the first computer animation in the state of florida. the one he used not effective. fell flat. wasnt a good use of animation. but now in the response from the prosecutor, that was brilliant. he turned it around. he had the last word, which that is what he had, a...

Its a lot more effective, and i think at a certain point it looks like as i said before, that there is something wrong with your case if you have to scream at the jury the entire time. >> i think thats an over statement -- >> emotion is good at a certain point. >> but that part of the summation is sofective because the brought us back to why this case got national attention in the first place. what kind of a country do we live in that a 17-year-old boy cant go to the corner and buy candy and sod...

Effective moment danny said the prosecutor used. i want to play that. >> trayvon martin. he was there legally. he hadnt broken in or snuck in or trespassed. he was there legally. he bought skittles and some kind of watermelon or iced tea or whatever its called. that was his crime. >> mark, do you find it effective to use props, to use things like that and the gun et cetera? >> yeah, i think it is effective when you use props. i dont think its effective to be yelling the whole time. i think that ...

But theyre not there yet. their -- >> can we talk about the defense closing arguments? >> i thought the defense was a little bit lackluster. i thought they came in so strong and started out sort of folksy, and it was nice and quoting john adams and all of that but didnt have the passion that i thought he could have encapsulated in one hour. something about lawyers, you give them three hours they want to take three and a half, and im not sure why he did that. >> stacy? >> the passion was needed o...

Skittles and a drink, walk home to watch the nba all-star game without getting killed. i mean, tease what this case has always been about. and now of course its become a lot more complicated with the claim of self-defense, but i did think particularly the opening part of the summation where he asked that question, what did trayvon martin do wrong here? thats the most effective and thats the most stirring, upsetting part of this case. >> i think its going to resonate with those women, jose. what ...

Last few week. and he has been in that chair for a very long time. strangely enough, people plight n might not understand that that job is held only by janet reno in the last 50 years she lasted longer than eric holder. you know how hard the job is. is eric holder -- she be cououl counting his days, where is your stand right now on eric holder and the job he holds? >> you used the term lasted longer than anyone else. sometimes it feels that youre just sort of hanging on. its an extremely difficu...

State department i told the president of libya -- >> you mean beth jones? >> yeah, beth jones. yeah, why dont we have that. at the end of the dare what do we want to know? we wouldnt no know how the story of benghazi got so distorted. i want to hear from the survivors. ive written secretary kerry, the cia, please make available to the congress and the american people those who survived the attack so they can tell us what happened. we are being stonewalled and i wish my colleagues would show inte...

State department i told the president of libya -- >> you mean beth jones? >> yeah, beth jones. yeah, why dont we have that. at the end of the dare what do we want to know? we wouldnt no know how the story of benghazi got so distorted. i want to hear from the survivors. ive written secretary kerry, the cia, please make available to the congress and the american people those who survived the attack so they can tell us what happened. we are being stonewalled and i wish my colleagues would show inte...