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Time, thats not likely. its more likely, john, it could be a fine or even a penalty, a censure, basically, on the attorney, certainly something no attorney would want. >> george howell. >> we heard from your investigators at the time, sereno and singleton, both testified about that investigative process. looking back at it, do you feel that they did their job to the letter? >> i believe they did. you know, the investigation through the trial, i think, its revealed itself that the sanford police ...

To. he shot him because he wanted to. thats the bottom line. >> guy asked if the events and choices that night legally amounted to, quote, nothing? >> your verdict is not going to bring trayvon benjamin martin back to life. your verdict is not going to change the past, but it will forever define it. so what is that? what is that when a grown man, frustrated, angry, with hate in his heart, gets out of his car with a loaded gun and follows a child?

They ran around the courtroom in the summation like rabid dogs and yelling and screaming and high octane and it is not connecting. bang the evidence and yell about the evidence. if you have the facts yell about the evidence. if you have nothing you just yell. thats what we saw from the prosecution and it was an abbysmal job. >> the states rebuttal guy asked jurors to use common sense and in his heart he thought zimmerman showed hatred. he repeatedly referred to him as a child who had every right...

Dont really know what happened in that altercation between trayvon and george zimmerman, but heres what we do know. and he painted that narrative from beginning to end, which ended with trayvon martin being shot and killed and his last emotion, his last thought was fear. because a man he did not know was following him. and i thought that was a great point today. >> marcia, let me ask you something thats going to be critical. in florida law, and in the law as you know it, youve been a prosecutor,...

Scared teenager? let me play a clip of john guy. >> 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? is not that every childs worst fear that was trayvon martins last emotion. >> paul, what do you think? did that work? >> i thought that was very effective. i followed it completely. i was involved. i was emotionally evoked by his words and his comment. i would have liked to have s...

I notice that b 29. the only minority on the jury, she actually nodded her head and looked at trayvon martins parents as well as zimmermans parents. i also noticed that one of the jurors actually smerkd when omara was mocking one of the prosecutors. that was kind of funny. six women also, of course, they were very focused as prosecutor john guy said that zimmerman lied. >> sean: mark fuhrman we have been talking a lot. have you been with us throughout the case. what was your reaction today and t...

Faith, we saw animations and graphics from the defense, and more emotion from the prosecution. what approach was more effective? >> well, the defense obviously doesnt have the emotion on their side in this case, and thats why you saw omaras closing arguments really lacked the drama throughout it. and he made a point of trying to paint trayvon as this very scary individual. he brought out the cardboard figure. he showed the animation. and he was sending that inference, that message there. trayvon...

The profile statement they made, the fact that they used over and over about him calling people a-holes, doesnt that really give the jury the picture that he had some hardened feelings without giving a layup shot to the prosecution? >> i totally think so. i have to say i really agree. and here is the thing. they got those calls in. the calls were there, and they were pretty good evidence of a mind-set that predated him ever seeing trayvon martin. and that was a good thing to do. you have to walk...

Teen-ager with nothing but sk skittles trying to get home. >> prosecutor john guy attacked those four minutes. >> four minutes is not the amount of time that trayvon martin had to run home. four minutes is the amount of time that trayvon martin had left on this earth. >> and he closed with a question to the jury. what if the roles were reversed? >> and if it was trayvon martin who had shot and killed george zimmerman, what would your verdict be? thats how you know its not about race. >> a look b...

>> marcia, your view of the two contrasting on those particular items we showed. >> you know, to me, its kind of a lesson to be learned there is such a thing as a bridge too far when it comes to the demonstrative exhibits. a little bit is good. can be very effective to punctuate the important points. and then you tip overboard and you turn into disneyland. and, you know, i thought the cartoon was actually -- sorry, the animation probably more effective than i thought it was going to be because h...