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American society and the american life, that we do have that kind of a conflation. but i think here we need to take a look at the jury system and the fairness of the jury system. these men and women came to this jury and even some of them had their own biases. they were able to put those biases aside. they were able to look at the evidence in this case. not the color so much of the persons skin. but the actual evidence in this case and coming to a decision of finding these three men guilty. >> c...

>> yeah, i mean lawyers talk about the csi effect where jurors are accustomed to watching these crime scene shows and expecting like the satellite footage to solve the case for them. im wondering now in these -- what would be extremely thorny self-defense cases if theyre not going to come to the expectation that well have video from 100 angles and slow motion break downs and reproductions. the bottom line here for both cases, we should be acknowledging or celebrating rationale juror behavior. th...

Comes outs, travis mcmichael with a shotgun. the father, grant mcmichael has his gun. they get in a vehicle and they chase this kid down. and then there was this confrontation that took place where this kid was shot and killed. then you had defense attorneys to try to use the race card. they used it by trying to make it seem that this black kid was a criminal, that he had committed criminal acts in the community before. that these individuals had a right to take the actions that they took becaus...

0 men for hate crimes. i dont think it will change the resulting sentence, because the resulting sentence from the state conviction is going to be a very, very, very long time if not life for each of the three men. >> all right, everyone, big, big, day here, so lets reset what we know and where we are at the top of this hour. were following breaking news in georgia, where a jury just reached a verdict in the case of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. travis mcmichael, who pulled the...

Course. the fact of the matter is the second he went out there with that ar-15, he was positioned to become an icon, a hero or martyr, depending on the outcome of this case because there were folks standing at the ready to make him the kind of exemplary figure they wanted to make him to show other, especially young white men, precisely how to behave in these situations. and its easy to separate these trials because the circumstances were different, the locations were different, people are differ...

The State’s case against Kyle was nonsensical from start to finish. It was an oblique attack on the right of self-defense. A direct assault on civilian ownership and possession of firearms.

The core of this case, getting him to admit that at no point was ahmaud arbery armed, at no point did he say anything threatening. that really does seem to make it an uphill battle for the defense team. the defense team will have their closings today. unclear exactly how they will handle it. they have seemingly thrown everything at the wall. weve heard at times fairly outrageous comments from one of the defense attorneys. it will be interesting to see if there are any last-minute motions. and ou...

In georgia, even though theres plenty of evidence that the arbery defendants went to the trouble, got in their car and chased down ahmaud arbery, on the other hand, at the time, georgia had a very broad, liberal citizens arrest statute that has since been amended. but that law dated back to the mid-1860s. >> a citizens arrest for doing what? >> at the time georgia gave someone a privilege to go chase someone and arrest them and detain them if they believed that they were fleeing from a felony an...

Exhibit 194, the night owl video. you can go ahead and take a look at 129. thats that close-up compressed sort of enhanced for coloration video that was produced, that shows the close-up of travis pulling that shotgun up. you can go ahead and take a look at states exhibit 117. officer rashs video, you can also take a look at 124, the video from december 17th, 2019, and of course, you can always ask to see states exhibit 315. the frame-by-frame if you want to see it. so how that works, you send a...

Observers assessments. >> the prosecution goes first in closing arguments. if you could give them one piece of advice, what would it be? >> it would be to have taken a somewhat different approach than they have so far. in the outside world this case has been so much about racial animus and whether the defendants were racially motivated when they attacked and ultimately killed arbery. but the prosecution has made the defense here -- the decision here, excuse me, to put all of that aside. they did...