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Has gotten national attention, race, and the role of race in this trial. i want both of you to weigh in, but first to you, sunny, what in the trial, what role has race played in the trial that you have seen or not? >> you know, it certainly may have been the elephant in the room, but no one talked about race in the room. in fact, in closing, the government said to the jury, john guy said to the jury this is not about race. certainly there was the argument i think early on that the governments th...

People, places, things or terminology and do not read or create e-mails, tweets, social networking pages about the case. >> while they spend the night at a local hotel, the notes are locked up. the six women are carrying planety around in their heads. >> reporter: for weeks the jury of six women has been a captive audience as prosecutors and defense lawyers tried to sway them from the moment it started, pure drama. prosecutor john guys opening statement. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> [ bl...

Do not use any type of electronic device to get on the internet to do any independent research about the case. people, places, things or terminology. and do not read or create any e-mails, tweets, text messages, social networking pages about the case. >> in addition, while they spend the night at a hotel, their notes remain locked up in the jury room. as randi kaye reports, these six women are carrying plenty around in their heads. >> reporter: for weeks, the jury of six women has been a captive...

Call. i had to call tracy marten. i had to call the lead investigator. that is a really damning indictment against the prosecution. >> when john guy did the prosecutions rebuttal, he repeatedly referred to trayvon martin as a child. the defense referred to him as a dangerous teenager. how do you think the jurors reacted to that? >> while mark ohara did good, he did a good job on his closing, john guy hit it out of the park. he did great. if people were calling him mcdreamy before, mark geragos, ...

Reproduce what was going on between trayvon martin and george zimmerman. it was very telling. it showed how into this they were, how they were watching a tennis match. >> reporter: jurors were especially engaged when the mothers of both trayvon martin and george zimmerman testified. five out of six jurors are married and almost all of them have children. prosecutor john guy keyed into that here. >> was that child not in fear when he was running from that defendant? isnt that every childs worst n...

He put his hand on his nose -- on my nose and the other hand on my mouth and said [ bleep ] and i tried to squirming again because all i could think about when he was hitting my head against this, i felt like my head was going to explode. >> reporter: during the prosecutions cross-examination of john root, john guy brought in a foam dummy straddling it showing that george zimmerman was inconsistent about his statement of trayvon martin going for his gun and defense attorney mark omara decided he...

>> reporter: jurors were especially engaged when the mothers of both trayvon martin and george zimmerman testified. five out of six jurors are married and almost all of them have children. prosecutor john guy keyed into that here. >> was that child not in fear when he was running from that defendant? isnt that every childs worst nightmare to be followed on the way home in the dark by a stranger? isnt that every childs worst fear? that was trayvon martins last emotion. >> i looked directly at the...

Anything trayvon martin could have said if the facts were reversed, and he profiled and pursued and shot an unarmed george zimmerman. he could have said stand your ground, self-defense, anything he wanted, he would have been arrested hour one, minute one, second one, and i believe his attorney john guy said, what would your verdict be then? >> it is many in the publics perception and many legal watchers perception that the prosecution did not do a great job in presenting their case, they did not...

Injury. >> sean: would you be the next punch? the woman from her bed testified said, quote, the nose was very disfigured we saw that picture, joe? >> you asked in the beginning what do you think the verdict is going to be? i raised my hand and said manslaughter not because of the evidence f decided on the evidence, the facts and the law its not a close call. should be not guilty within a money. -- minute. by the way, the prosecutor stood up and looked into their hearts. told the jury this was a ...

Felt they raced and wanted to do it properly? >> they do. keep in mind they have been shielded from the way this trial has grown. they knew, of course, somewhat about the story, but they have not known how significantly the americans a are glued to the television sets and watching it. they know its important. it matters. there is one life lost and one life that remains on the line. john guy summed it up. he took for the prosecution that self-defense argument that the defense has used and turned ...