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In closing argument, there was this very peculiar he hadding where the prosecutor said this is not about race. then he told a story about race, if the races were reversed, and then he said it is not about race. the defense was the only one who had a clear narrative on race. the narrative was racial profiling is okay. one of the final defense witnesses was a woman who had been burglarized by an average american male. the prosecution missed it by saying, were you burglarized by trayvon martin? no....

Pointedly and very purposefully from the beginning of the trial through the end of the trial. and that that conversation is not taking place. and the fact that people didnt hear the conversation about race, and didnt hear the presentation about how raised an implication on zimmerman and why he behaved, even at some points in the trial as black people come up and testify or you heard testimony about other black people, no one was connecting those dots and saying, hey, thats inappropriate. hey, we...

And is ready to leave the courthouse because the objection has already been made and shes ruled on it, you dont have to stand there, you know, until the cows come home, you know, waiting for the defense to finish. she has already finished. shes ruled. lets move on to paige, do you think the judge favored the prosecution? >> i really dont. i think the judge has been fair in almost haul of her rulings, really all of her rulings. it has important for everyone in the case she has moved the case alon...

Went through that four-minute time period. for a lot of folks who havent been following this, tell us what that four minutes represented of dead silence in the courtroom? >> yeah, he sat there for four minutes with dead silence and he said that was the amount of time that trayvon martin had to get home if he was really afraid. you know, the prosecution has made this deal about trayvon martin was afraid of george zimmerman. he was this crazy guy who is following him and who is not afraid of that?...

Went through that four-minute time period. for a lot of folks who havent been following this, tell us what that four minutes represented of dead silence in the courtroom? >> yeah, he sat there for four minutes with dead silence and he said that was the amount of time that trayvon martin had to get home if he was really afraid. you know, the prosecution has made this deal about trayvon martin was afraid of george zimmerman. he was this crazy guy who is following him and who is not afraid of that?...

You could tell the implication hes out to get black people although he never said that. he said profiling but didnt say profiling by what or about what. the problem with this summation, which is to me, the problem with the prosecutions case is it never answered the question what happened? you know, how did this -- how did this death unfold? >> where as we know the defense will have this video and a very clear interpretation of what they say happened. >> exactly. it not even the defenses burden t...

That frustration into his intent the night of. historically, you dont introduce charter evidence, peoples prior acts or behavior to prove action or conformity. i thought this was a brilliant way of sort of backdooring in charter evidence, which, by the way, taken in the abstract is relatively benign. he started a neighborhood watch -- >> its interpretation and jeff, you said last night i think on the program that you could look at this either way. you can look at george zimmerman wanting to star...

About people breaking into places in the neighborhood. historically, the general rule is you dont introduce character evidence, peoples prior acts or behavior to prove action and conformity with what they did on a particular night. but this was a brilliant way of back dooring in character evidence, which is relatively benign. he started a neighborhood watch. >> jeff, you can look at this either way. you can look at george zimmerman wanting to start a neighborhood watch as a good thing for a citi...

Things. that trayvon martin was a [ bleep ] punk, and he was [ bleep ] and he wasnt going to get away this time. >> mr. davis, he spoke of criminal profiling, not racial profiling. but is that really the unsaid word in that courtroom? is that the implication of what the prosecution is saying? >> well, as i said before, counselor, and thank you again for having me today, that race is immutable. we see it. in fact, you see it as we look at the television, at the panel here today with the diversity...

Well go to the jury by tomorrow night. >> that is true. ive asked the court officials whether or not they know if jury deliberations will go on on saturday and sunday. they havent told me whether they will. experts ive talk to say they dont expect the deliberations to go very long but it is really up to the judge, from my understanding, of when the deliberations start and when we learn about the verdict once it is reached. >> we dont know until there is a verdict, but does this trial represent l...