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Man defending himself during a violent attack in which he feared for his life. back to you. >> jonathan serrie, thank you, from outside the courtroom. >> lets bring in those watching the cases until 2:00 in the morning. we have coffee and doughnuts. lets go to some of the specifics, guys. we were hearing murder two. murder two was the initial charge. yesterday afternoon we heard manslaughter. they wanted clarification. the jury came back and wanted instructions on manslaughter. what was going on...

It changes the dynamics of deliberations, now there are less people to convince and less likely for holdouts. the converse to that is if there is a holdout he or she on one of six as opposed to one versus 11. so, its really a question of math. in a case like this, however, theres -- consider the possibility that mark omara told them all you have to do is consider self-defense first, if you do, then youre done. he dangled that sort of bone in front of them, so this may be a case where the traditi...

>> yet, he came so much closer to satisfying that burden with facts and evidence. >> its not his burden. >> the proof will be in the pudding. >> he wanted to say that if theres any confusion, the defense wins a deadlock because the prosecution has the burden of proof. except for the one i have. >> i think he made that very, very, very clear. he said, go back and talk about self-defense first. if you have a reasonable doubt about self-defense, we win. they have to disprove it beyond a reasonable ...