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Question, as is everything pretty much the defendant has said. so the state believes the motion should be denied. i will close by saying that even if the court felt compelled to grant at this stage a motion as to second degree murder, there remains the necessarily lesser included offense of manslaughter as to which there is no requirement of showing ill will or anything like that and therefore the state believes that even if, and were not saying you should because i think ive made the point, but...

Tri trial. a quick whip around. did you expect, is it pretty customary for the defense to make a motion for acquittal? it seemed obvious the judge was going to deny that request. >> bear in mind im not an attorney, im a professor. one thing i couldnt get past, the paradox of this case, was trayvon martin a member of that community. when we talk about george zimmermans role in being a protector, of being a kind of neighborhood watch person, did he have a responsibility to protect trayvon martin? ...

Because in this case we do have some undeniable evidence of what mr. trayvon martin did. servazo, he hit him one time and threatened a bunch. in this case we know the facts are so much more serious than that. in this case they start out similar, trayvon martin sucker punched my client and theres nothing to contradict that and we have the injuries to suggest nothing else but what my client said right after the fact before he knew there was an eyewitness to or not to it. but what servazo didnt do ...

Jenkins facts are inconsequential, actually that theyre more severe than the zimmerman facts, is just ignorant of the fact or at least its application to the law. similarly the state seems to ignore the reality of the leasure case. sometimes bad facts make bad law but lets look it the leasure case for a minute. you may remember the case. it wasnt that long ago. its a case where miss leasure stated to 911 three completely separate cases of the events of what happened, he shot himself, i shot him,...

Instructed in the law to prove second degree murder and manslaughter. of course the state, theyre hanging on to the second degree. i dont know. that will ultimately be obviously a decision of the jury. i want to tell you about that judgment of acquittal, though. its not just automatic, as marcia said. its required if youre ever going to challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. if you lose the case and want to appeal it and say there was insufficient evidence, if you had failed to make a motion...

To acquit after the prosecution presents its case? >> they do it in every case. jake, its absolutely pro forma. i dont think i can remember a felony or even a misdemeanor where there wasnt some motion made to dismiss before the case was submitted to the defense or to the jury. its very common. there was clearly enough evidence to get the case to the jury and its no surprise whatsoever that she denied the motion. >> cheney mason, did you think there was ever going to be a chance that the prosecut...

Attack or injury. the bottom of that page, a common sense view of leasures con police brutalitying stories and the physical evidence that conflicted with her intentions when considered together with the evidence of motive could leave the jury to disbelief leasures self-defense theory. as opposed to the jenkins case, this case is by far in a legal sense and certainly as it relates to the nature of the arguments far more close. the defendant was armed, fully loaded with hollow point bullets, the v...

Acquittal for the malice or the intent prong. and the law appears to be virtually identical but i want to draw back to one thing. the bottom of that page and moving on to the next page, circumstantial evidence standard does not require the jury to believe the defendants version of the facts if the state produces conflicting testimony. even when a defendants theory of events is not clearly contradicted by direct evidence, a judgment of acquittal is not required, a common sense view of the circums...

Coverage of the george zimmerman trial. we have mark omara arguing in favor of an acquittal of their client. >> not do i have to bend over backwards, do i have to ignore common sense to make this case go to the jury. if it was the standard as suggested by the state, there wasnt be an appellate case granting a j.o.a. ever because under their standard, im understanding some indication of some set of facts that can support a jury deciding guilt. no, not in a circumstantial evidence case and if this...

This stage regarding the defendants intent and state of mind, i submit that both through direct and circumstantial evidence, that has certainly been done. in fact, the only hypothesis of innocence going forward is the notion of justifiable use of deadly force and so im going to move to that. i think the facts testified to by the eyewitnesses who saw the defendant and the witnesses struggling together and at one point a pursuit involved, coupled with the inconsistencies more than create a substan...