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Sanford, florida. now six women will decide if george zimmerman is a murderer. omara says he wishes there were some men on the jury, and he knows the women that will carry the weight on the mother of trayvon martin. >> lets talk about the makeup of the jury. >> okay. >> first of all, its six people. >> yes. >> its six women. >> yes. >> one person of color and five who are mothers, correct? >> yes. interesting, because the jury selection process is very intriguing to me. i enjoy the process. >> i...

Up might think this was a person predisposed toward the prosecution. when you have people with these opposite dynamics, what happens when theyre in conflict? and can the majority sway the minority view. >> you want to the get in here? >> i wanted to clarify something perhaps. the race of the nonwhite juror, she could be black, she could be his manic. could be a mix of both. we dont exactly know but juror b 29 i said earlier i didnt want to mislead anyone. juror e-6 actually got arrested once for...

So, you know, it certainly is a difficult thing. i will say what was surprising to me in mark omaras interview is he mentioned there was real animosity between the parties. yes, youre adversaries as attorneys and yes, you get into it and you argue points of law, but it seems as if these folks dont really like each other. so its gone beyond just the adversarial process and there is a real discourt there. i thought that that was interesting. >> and you did have some word in the exchange in their c...

Prospect of having 27 pages read to you, you might want to have a full stomach, at the least. weve been keeping a very close eye on that courtroom, precisely how george zimmerman is behaving, how hes reacting to. and also, more importantly, how the jurors are responding and reacting to the testimony. george zimmerman we can tell you, while john guy was going through his closing there, did not look at him at any point, were told. also in terms of jurors, juror e6 is someone who is really starting...

Versus what happens in a military court? >> the process can often look similar. obviously the customs are different and the trial is different but what happens is the post commander, general court-martial convening authority will send out notice to prospective jurors. in this case they sent out a prospective juror questionnaire months ago. the prospective juror will turn in notices and panel of them will be called into a military courtroom where they begin jury selection process where they are s...

Ruling of the judge. they are now in search of the four alternates less one of the jurors disqualified for some reason. they now have an injure r jury case. some speculated this could go on for weeks the jury selection process. we will take up kellys court in the next block. but i want to bring in the former prosecutor now defense attorney, marking now. six jurors, theyre all women. not one man on the jury. one hispanic, the rest are white. forgive me my audience. this is how lawyers look at it....

I want to get to sunny. sunny, you have been following this case and have been reading some of the questions they ask jurors. what did you know about from the media? one of them was a pregnant woman who is married. she said, i know the media doesnt know everything. this was a difficult selection process for the folks down there. >> it really was. i estimated it would take about a week. clearly i was wrong. it took more than a week. about two weeks. it was very clear they couldnt find someone tha...

On these key issues from some of the language that can and cannot be used of the 911 call where screams could be heard in the background? >> well, theyre trying here, tamron, which is all about bringing in voice experts into the trial and once it gets underway theyll hear testimony. we expect theyll hear that this afternoon. she wants to get to that and rule on that before the start of opening statements. so as far as the motion by the defense to prohibit the state from using certain phrases and...

Me six jurors and four alternates will hear that case. the attorney for george zimmerman, mark omeara says the jury could be seated by the middle of the week. the father of the victim of trayvon martin says they are kneeling good so far about the jury selection process. also today lawyers will focus on the 911 call weve heard about and the scream heard in the backgrounds. the defense and the prosecution are both bringing in experts to testify about technology that could be used to try to identif...

That sort. so the judge is going it make a determination once all the testimony in the frye hearing to determine whether she will allow the experts to testify before jury at trial. its a crucial ruling. we dont know if well get it tonight, but we expect once the hearing is wrapped, in due order the judge will make her ruling. >> why would you have the prosecution witness and the break to jury selection, now another break going back to the defense witness regarding these 911, this 911 call and wh...