Page 43 - John Guy News Today

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 nightmare to be followed on the way home in the dark...

Prosecutors and it seemed to be more of an emotional plea. prosecutor john guy asking the jury to consider what was in each persons heart, what was in george zimmermans heart, what was in trayvon martins heart, and he asked, was it fear? listen to what both attorneys said so you can get a sense of what happened in court. >> the state never, ever loses their responsibility to take away reasonable doubt from you. dont let them do it with innuendo. dont let them do it with sympathy, dont let them d...

>> do not discuss the case amongst yourselves or anybody else. do not read or listen to any television or news reports about the case. do not use any type of electronic device to get on the internet to do any independent research about the place. and do not read or create anything about the case. >> in addition, while they spend the night at a hotel, their notes are in the jury room. these six women are carrying around plenty in their head. >> reporter: for weeks, the jury of six women has been ...

While we dont know their identities, weve learned a lot about their background. here is cnns randi kaye. >> 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. >> [ bleep ] punks. these [ bleep ]. they always get away. those were the words in that grown mans mouth as he followed in the dark a 17-year-old boy who...

To you they are significant. what do you think are the most significant inconsistencies? >> yeah, and john guy and his terrific closing argument summed them up on the screen, and those jurors were writing them down. there were about 13 or 14 inconsistencies, one, he said that, you know, that the dispatcher told him to go get an address. well, you can listen to it, that is not it. he didnt tell him to get out of his car and get an address. he also told police he was going to meet them at his car....

You nuts? how dare you tell me to leave sympathy out of my life. how dare you tell me to leave my emotions out. i dont do that ever in my life. welcome to a criminal courtroom. >> after that, prosecutor john guy gave the states rebuttal focusing on what he calls zimmermans lies and using emotional language to ask jurors to use their common sense to look into the hearts of george zil and trayvon martin in rendering their verdict. >> what do we owe trayvon martin? 16 years and 21 days. forever. he...

Rather unfortunate? >> choice of words was not best. pointed i try to make, if you are at home and you hear a noise and grab your gun and somebody is coming through your window and shoot and kill him, it turns out your daughter has told the neighbors son, come over, i left the window open. you just killed an innocent boy but you are not guilty because it was per accepting that you were in fear for your life. we have vastly different because you are out in the street but to the extent you have in...

Seemless using that animation and he made it very easy to understand. he also went through each witness and, you know, kind of put doubt in peoples minds with the state witnesses. so, i thought, you know, i thought he did a good job. >> sean: i thought also, look, i think visuals are always a good thing to use. it makes it more powerful. not guilty, not guilty, not guilty. not guilty. i thought he was laying out for them the standard. i thought that was a pretty effective. did you get any reacti...

And keep this in mind. the prosecution, once the defense raises self-defense, the prosecution has to prove under florida law that beyond a reasonable doubt, there was no self-defense. so the burden shifts to the prosecution once self-defense is raised by the defense. but make no mistake about it. the law is like mud. this jury is going to hear this law from this court, and theyre going to be like every jury. theyre going to have a hard time going through it, because lawyers cant even agree what ...

Prosecution. >> when john guy did the close he referred to trayvon martin as a child but the defense painted him as a dangerous teenager. sunny, how do you think the jurors reacted to that? >> while mark omara 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, they are calling him perfect. the jury was river vetted. they did not take their eyes off of this man and what was so important about it, ande...