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Conversation i was a bit worried that we would not get a verdict today. we might have a difficult time with getting a verdict because of the geography, because of the makeup of the jury and because we have the computing interest of citizens arrest on one side, self-defense on another and yet we have the evidence of this tracking down not suggesting citizens arrest when they had the opportunity to talk to police initially. this trapping like a rat and i really thought that we might have a jury wh...

Have the appropriate resources. then we have the state step in. all of that is done against the backdrop of humanity, people crying for justice, people yearning for something to occur here and something is amiss. you have the videotape, the outraged public, 74 days, two-and-a-half months later, where finally, there are dimes made, arrests made and people brought to justice, then, of course, the process begins. not withstanding that process, which is somewhat broken but is it broken if you have p...

How would you sum up your emotions? >> well, i think ive created a few things that most people dont know about but frustration, disappointment, patience, you know, i wouldnt put bitterness and anger in there. its just more so, you know, frustration, that it took them this long to finally get a jury to hear all the evidence after i was filing petition after petition after petition on my own trying to have somebody hear my situation. so, it would be frustration. >> kevin strickland, wish you good ...

System. not because how the case turned out, but because of how these jurors got there. lets bring in other opinions, who criminal defense attorneys who you know, cnn legal analyst joey jackson and mark omara in the trayvon martin case. you heard my analysis, big picture, what did you think about the jury verdict? >> i almost said it was right on point. i told you in a previous conversation i was a bit worried that we would not get a verdict today. we might have a difficult time with getting a v...

Trial almost never happened until there was a national outcry when the video surface. ed. so aubreys parents are understandably relieve. >> its been a long fight. its been a hard fight. but god is good. i never thought this day would come. but god is good. we knew him as ahmaud. i knew him as friend, he will now rest in peace. >> we are all, so, hey, lets keep fighting. lets keep doing this. >> i have to say the guilty investigators didnt surprise me, nor that this verdict came today instead of ...

But god is good. i never thought this day would come. but god is good. we knew him as ahmaud. i knew him as friend, he will now rest in peace. >> we are all, so, hey, lets keep fighting. lets keep doing this. >> i have to say the guilty investigators didnt surprise me, nor that this verdict came today instead of extending beyond thanksgiving. what did police aptly surprise me was the nuance of the verdict. the jury process mounds of evidence and 27 pounds in the span of 11 hours. their conclusio...

Span of 11 hours. their conclusion suggests this was an outcome based on evidence and analysis, not emotion. why do i say that? well, the case was pretty straight forward factually except for the final sequence when he shot and killed aubrey. only travis mcmichael was alive. he said aubrey lunged for his gun and he fired in self-defense. the jury rejected that testimony. the law was potentially complicated. in lay terms, the judge instructed the jury that under the then applicable georgia law, a...

In lay terms, the judge instructed the jury that under the then applicable georgia law, a person can make citizens arrest if a felony has been committed in their presence or within their immediate knowledge or if they had reasonable ground of suspicion. what matters is whether they had reasonable suspicion, not whether he was actually committing a felony. someonesqueuateing a citizens arrest cant use excessive force, one asserting defense cant be the aggressor, the target of an unjustified citiz...

Which is somewhat broken but is it broken if you have people who can rise up, good people of goodwill and say you know what, somethings wrong here. we have to take a closer look. then when you take a closer look, michael, you have a situation where you have a jury empanelled and a judge who says, this is intentional discrimination as it relates to 11 white jurors and one african-american. then you have that jury that processes through and render a verdict that speaks to facts as we know them to ...

Wed love for that to change. but in the meantime, mr. strickland is resting on the kindness of strangers. so we set up a go fund me account for him in hopes of providing for him. hes not entitled to social security, for example, he didnt pay into it in all those years. so really its the community thats going to be providing that support. >> mr. strekla strickland, how you feel? any sense of bitterness? obviously, you are relieved to be out. how would you sum up your emotions? >> well, i think iv...