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The court-martial of private first class bradley manning as early as this tuesday. the presiding judge is considering whether manning was aiding the enemy with general evil intent. that language is important. manning is accused of giving more than 700,000 documents, and diplomatic cables to wikileaks, including a video showing a helicopter attack in iraq. that mistakenly killed innocent civilians. the legal director of the center for constitutional rights joins me here in the studio. what have w...

>> im not. the system didnt work for us. the system was broken initially. i think the system continues to be broken tonight is what im suggesting to you. >> but about that system, that system, there are those who say its simple, the prosecution did not prove its case, did not prove second degree murder. the state needed to show george zimmerman had ill will, hatred, spite, evil intent against trayvon martin and clearly the jury agreed the prosecution did not make that connection. martin savidge ...

But i think hes trying to get to the emotions of that jury to let them know we have a minor, who was unarmed, who was shot and killed and he is trying to bring out those elements of second-degree murder statute in this state, so they are able to look at that, and quite frankly they should look at that only in make their decision with their deliberatio deliberations. >> in other words, hes trying to meet that element of evil intention, which is required? >> absolutely. thats what hes trying to do...

Under cross-examination watch what happens. >> was there anything in georges voice that gave you the impression that he was angry or acting with ill-will, spite or hatred on that phone call? >> no. >> okay. little confusing but bear with me because theres so much direct, cross, redirect, re, reand re-re. what she was saying was that when she heard those words and im sorry i cant say them and we cant play them. they were used to bring out what kind of person this was. what kind of intent this was...

Trayvon martin and george zimmerman, that darkness can have an impact, so theres so much testimony for them to consider and now, theyre going into the defense case. but remember, the prosecution has to show as one of the elements of second degree murder that george zimmerman had hatred, ill will, spite, evil intent against trayvon martin as a person, so the jury has to be thinking about the words of george zimmerman, was that evil intent? theres a very challenging issue there. >> lots of stuff t...

To prove ill will, spite, hate, evil intent. >> belamy is another case, 977, southern 2nd, 682, 2nd dca case out of 2008. this was a fight that lasted a couple of minutes. basically a bar fight where they went back and forth and to the extent of the client, in that case belamys responsibility in that regard, even though there is no evidence that the victim of the final stabbing by mr. belamy wasnt even known to have caused his own death, so he was, in effect, was thought by the court to be an in...

Tale of the tape, they had to decide whether this use the interview and they did and they got inconsistencies where his story was different, goes to his credibility. who was screaming? this is what george was talking about. the expert says i cant tell, sounds like its bad for the prosecution but it is. it opens the door for the family to identify the voice, it will be emotional and compelling. for the defense, kill without ill will, second-degree murder, depraved mind, evil intent. you get the i...

And i was really focused on the jury during this. let me tell you, its a big multi-media screen. so youre watching a full movie screen as youre watching all of this. and remember george zimmerman was described as meek by one of the witnesses today. and you saw a meek person as they were talking right there in the minds some. the jury was not taking notes but the minute it was over with, and it took a while, they started writing notes in their notebook from what they had just watched on the scree...

Guys always get away. why is mr. zimmermans state of mind so important in this second-degree murder murder trial? >> this is everything. this is where the north pole and the south pole come together. we have it on the 911 tape, and now we have the same phrase heard again. this is a window into george zimmermans head. we cant take a knife and cut it open and look inside. but he is just provided us that transparency, where we know what he is thinking. and the prosecutions main thing they have to p...

Aggressor, george zimmerman. >> that may lead you to depraved, evil intent. the prosecution said he did this because he wanted to. wendy doraval said, george zimmerman didnt want to be a part of the police. he said no to an offer i made to him on the community side suggesting he wasnt this cop want to be. vigilante. how did that play for defense? this is the prosecutions witness. on cross, they enlisted the fact that george zimmerman, their entire theory of the case is that george zimmerman is a...