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Did trayvon martin not also have that right? >> faith, why did the prosecution think this was so important for the jury to think about? >> because theyre focusing on who was the initial aggressor here. theyre not trying to tell this jury exactly what happened when george zimmerman and trayvon martin met. theyre trying to show this jury george zimmerman was the initial aggressor from the very beginning. in fact, it started months before he ever saw trayvon martin with his mind-set, with these peo...

Pressure that they have to make a race-based statement with their verdict. they want the jury to make a humanity-based statement and thats what john guy was doing there. >> i got to stop it there. thank you to the panel, and thank you for your great analysis. well be right back with my final thoughts on this trial. stay with us. ♪ unh ♪ ♪ hey! ♪ ♪ lets go! ♪ [ male announcer ] you can choose to blend in. ♪ ♪ yeah! yeah! yeah! or you can choose to blend out. ♪ oh, yeah-eah! ♪ ...

Omara said this. the person who decided this was going to be a violent event and not go home was trayvon martin. so the young man who arrived with skittles is the one who decides to escalate this confrontation to violence as opposed to the man whos armed with a lethal weapon, according to mr. omara. >> well, i think without question, we found out in this case that mark omara has chosen to give you bits and pieces of the case rather than the whole story. and i think john guy and bernie said it be...

George zimmerman is not guilty if you have just a reasonable doubt that he acted this self-defense. >> we want to bring in our team, msnbc legal analyst lisa bloom, msnbcs craig melvin who is live in sanford, florida, as well as nbcs kerry sanders. also in sanford, kerry, ill begin with you. i know you had a chance to speak with the defense attorney, mark omara, as he walk out of court a short time ago. what more did you learn from him? >> reporter: and others, actually. as the prosecutor did hi...

Justice. you sit back and say what are they trying to do? does it really help you decide this case when somebody who is not george zimmermans voice screams at you or yells at you and curses at you? no. i would contend. listen to the tape. dont listen to mr. guy. im sure people say that i look like joel and mr. guy is trying to sound like him with this really odd fing punks! you know, do we need that? i do a little bit, i guess. but do we need that type of anger coming out from a prosecutor rathe...

The case well. but also, i really enjoyed, too, how they humanized trayvon and made his life significant. in several opportunity, they challenged that jury. they challenged that jury and really got in depth with them in terms of how they should view this case in its entirety. >> and mr. crump, it wasnt just trayvon they humanized. they also humanized mr. zimmerman with the prosecution assist tant attorney saying if ever there was a window into a mans soul, it was those words from the defendants ...

And the last thing he did on this earth was try to get home. >> that was prosecuting attorney, john guy, just a short time ago as he completed the prosecutions rebuttal to the defenses closing arguments. and were joined now by attorneys representing the trayvon martin family, mr. benjamin crump and daryl parks. we did reach out to the attorneys for george zimmerman and have not yet received a response. thank you first of all for joining us. can i ask you how trayvon martins parents have responde...

Believe that trayvon martin could get to the gun, then that calls into question the entire self-defense argument that theyre making to the jury. 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. the law is like mud. this jury is going the hear this law from the court and theyre goi...

John donnelly was interesting. im not sure i could, if i thought about trying to figure out who in the world talks to people they know and then hears them scream for their life. i just -- theres no profession that does that. maybe a corner man in a boxing ring but they dont scream for help there. a medic in vietnam a person who hangs out during the day with his buddies of 6,200 people, figures out who they are, what they are, who they left behind at home, when they want to go back and when they ...

Closings only? >> the defense was stylistically better and an excellent use of visual aids. nobody can sit and watch somebody talk hour after hour. even if its a fascinating case. he brought in chunks of concrete, giant cutouts. i mean, really anything he could think of. he uses his body over and over to illustrate things. you dont get bored watching mark omara. john guy for the prosecution has a fantastic rhetorical style. and i understand that everybody in the courtroom wases really gripped by...