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Kind of imagery to say he was normal, and then, his 20s came around and as happens so often with young men and schizophrenia set in. >> if im the prosecutor, megyn, look he is smart, he is uncanning like a fox. he knows he can use these things. he probably researched. i wouldnt be surprise even research on insanity defense when cops bo through his computer. if he has all the things in line that is the argument he can make. he didnt know, megyn when he went into the theater whether he was going t...

To do. this is why the defense needs it. insanity defense at least gets death, get the death penalty off the table, prosecutor, if you will. i as a prosecutor wouldnt take that that is what i think mark would argue. megyn: mark, they will have to prove, if you assert the insanity defense youre arguing he did not know right from wrong at the time he committed the acts. then it becomes a the states burden to prove that he did. how hard is that for a prosecutor under circumstances like this where m...

History may use the insanity defense when he goes to trial. do you see the behavior in court? that he planned it well in advance and classmates say he was at the top of graduate of his neuroscience class, some are questioning whether that argument really stands a chance. joining me fox news legal analyst, lis wiehl and former defense attorney. mark iglar. thanks for joining me. what else is going to use as his defense, right? doesnt take a genius to predict he will go with the insanity defense. ...

I dont know how youre going to sit there and do that. >> how did i get through my son being murdered and the person walk for 44 days? >> i know but youre going to have to relive this through this trial. >> well, i believe in the judicial system and i believe that he will get his day in court, and he will complete his case. gregg: mark iglar is a former prosecutor, ket sullivan is a defense attorney. mark, under floridas stand your ground law, zimmerman can seek dismissal of all of the charges in...

The victim here and zimmerman was the aggressor. what do you think? >> gregg, i hope that theres more than what we already know, because if were going based on just whats already out in the public domain, its not enough for second degree murder, let alone manslaughter. gregg: and thats the question to both of you. you suspect theyll plead this down to manslaughter? >> which may be why the prosecutor went for second degree murder as opposed to manslaughter to begin with. >> i would say yes, only ...

The preliminary hearing stage but the defense always has the opportunity to renew the self-defense argument before the jury and if youre the defense attorney, what you have to do is separate out and create two scenarios. the first, which is the initial pursuit of zimmerman, from zimmerman to martin, and then a line of de demarcation between that and the actual incident. if you alone to zimmermans father last week on this network, he described that his son had lost sight of martin and turned arou...