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Spiritual day, how did you feel about yourself? >> after he left shortly after he left i felt -- i didnt feel very good. kind of felt like a used piece of toilet paper. >> geraldo: stacey hanowitz is a veteran prosecutor who watched the state, florida, lose the casey anthony murder trial. stacey, i dont see how this jury in arizona will ever vote to execute jodi arias. i think that they will get her for murder two or manslaughter, but i think the state overcharged in trying to go for capital mur...

Legal basis, depending on how he couched what he said, could be a manslaughter. if youre talking about an accident, it could be -- he could be angling for some kind of a manslaughter-type charge. so thats a way to spin it, so to speak in terms of what actually happened. this does not strike me, and obviously i dont know this young man, but he doesnt strike me as a sophisticated person. and thats usually the case in cases like this. and if thats true, and he is unsophisticated, he may just be tel...

Geragos, criminal defense attorney and stacey hanowitz, florida state assistant attorney. she is the author of "my privates are private." mark, first to you. in this particular case, were hearing some disturbing -- zurich admissions that are credited to this young man who said that he took her by the neck, hit her head against the wall, but then his attorney comes out and says this is an accident. youre a defense attorney. im sure that the first thing you tell your client, dont say anything. but...

And if thats true, and he is unsophisticated, he may just be telling it like it is. i threw her against the wall does not usually sound like an accident. and he probably doesnt know the legal ins and outs. and so he may have just made a statement or sometimes what will happen is that the officers will kind of lead him into making a statement. and so you dont know how much of that until you hear -- actually hear the statement if its taped or hear his version of what actually happened. >> stacey, ...

Think youre going to find this case is going to be fought out. the idea of whether or not there is malice. the difference between murder and manslaughter is your mental state. when you talk about rage, when you talk about a foot through the door, things of that nature, does that negate the malice so that you have a manslaughter? >> jim: but stacey, what about the edition of alcohol and the potential the potential that alcohol fuelled this rage, that he may have been going back to win her back, t...

Present this case as a first-degree murder. could it be felony murder? this act happened in the commission of a felony. was it premeditated? was it deliberate? were there arguments beforehand? were there rage? all of these things are taken into consideration when the prosecutor makes the decision. based on what i have heard, and like i said, i dont know all the facts, i think the first-degree murder is what theyre going to try to make stick. >> yeah, i dont think there is any way possible that t...

>> jim: welcome back to "larry king live." im jim moret from "inside edition," sitting in tonight for larry. we welcome my friend mark geragos, criminal defense attorney and stacey hanowitz, florida state assistant attorney. she is the author of "my privates are private." mark, first to you. in this particular case, were hearing some disturbing -- zurich admissions that are credited to this young man who said that he took her by the neck, hit her head against the wall, but then his attorney come...

Spiritual day, how did you feel about yourself? >> after he left shortly after he left i felt -- i didnt feel very good. kind of felt like a used piece of toilet paper. >> geraldo: stacey hanowitz is a veteran prosecutor who watched the state, florida, lose the casey anthony murder trial. stacey, i dont see how this jury in arizona will ever vote to execute jodi arias. i think that they will get her for murder two or manslaughter, but i think the state overcharged in trying to go for capital mur...