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Simpson was guilty. is it not just always going to be the case that where race is the overriding issue in a case like this or o.j. that black people will be more tended to vote their way perhaps towards the black part of the case, white people will do the opposite? is that not just human nature in these cases? >> well, i wrote a piece today on cnn.com in terms of an opinion because we have to change how we talk about race, and its not just about skin color. it about life experiences. three quart...

Call him a murderer after he was acquitted by the jury. >> i think all her behavior since this verdict is disgrateful and sums up the prosecution case from the moment they overcharged as many people believe to the way they conducted it to even the way they briefed rachel jeantel, who as i 20-minute interviewed last night got more out of her about trayvon martins real charter than we heard in the entire trial, which seems non-sense kill. >> two of the o.j. simpson jurors, this is a question for y...

With deadly force n. a stand your ground situation, they take away my need to retreat. as long as im not doing anything wrong, i dont have to retreat. you come at me with a knife from here, i can take out my gun and shoot you. that can be problematic because it allows the person to not try the last chance out. now george didnt have that opportunity in his case, but the statute is trouble some in that regard. >> its trouble some because gang leaders are saying it saying hey, i came face-to-face w...

Worked with. >> fascinating to talk with you two. you know what they have been through. thank you very much indeed. >> thank you. >> youre welcome, piers. a lot to say about the case, and he joins me live, my old americas got talent buddy still wearing terrible suits. my name is paul ridley. to benefit cancer research i rode across the atlantic. crossing an ocean with your body as the motor, it hurts. so i brought advil to help me stay strong during the toughest journey of my life. [ male anno...

Acquitted by the jury. >> i think all her behavior since this verdict is disgrateful and sums up the prosecution case from the moment they overcharged as many people believe to the way they conducted it to even the way they briefed rachel jeantel, who as i 20-minute interviewed last night got more out of her about trayvon martins real charter than we heard in the entire trial, which seems non-sense kill. >> two of the o.j. simpson jurors, this is a question for you as a jury expect. people say t...

When we talk to -- we talked to her people today and its going to take some work, first of all, to get her high school diploma and get her ready for the sats test and then entered into college, but we are going to do that. we help students in historically black colleges. i told her she can go to any historical black college she wants to, particularly in florida. >> it would be a great thing, tom. >> she wants to go into criminal justice. >> which may be a fantastic thing for her to do. thank you...

Reasonable doubt, which is all i gave him in that instance, really. >> how many of the jurors for awhile thought that o.j. was guilty and changed their mind sns. >> how would i know that? >> you didnt discuss it? >> you mean like in jury deliberation. >> in deliberations when it came up, and your question again was? >> how many in your jury with o.j. started off believing he was guilty and changed their minds? >> probably ten people. >> really? >> yes. >> and did they change their minds because ...

Was just beating her up on the stand, just really moved me and then last night when i saw her on your show, you did a followup question that said what do you want to do in life? >> yeah. >> you went to that to what was trayvon like and described trayvon as her best friend and they talked about any and everything but you didnt say what do you want to do in life? thats when the lightbulb went off. i said i want to help her. we have a foundation that helps students in historically black colleges an...

White jury acquitted a white/hispanic man. do you think, though, that race is that important in a jurys decision hmaking from your experience. is it human nature? >> in a general sense -- >> in a general sense but leaning, as well in your experience being a juror in a highly motivated race case. >> in a general sense i wouldnt know for sure because you dont know what goes into peoples mind sets in jurors but in regard to my experience, and the fact of the matter was with me in the o.j. simpson c...

Sense and here we have in the case you described an allocation by a victim of domestic violence that in fact, she was being threatened that she had been threatened in the past and that she shot the gun, she couldnt retreat out of the garage because he was standing there in her way and allegedly threatening her according to him -- according to her. the jury didnt obviously believe it, and therefore she is in prison. it very, very disturbing. here in the trayvon martin case we didnt have trayvon m...