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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120107:17:56:00

talking about, isn't there? >> yes. there's no remorse. there's not an ounce of remorse. >> in his closing argument, the prosecutor brought the jury back to the bedroom as the murder occurred. the medical examiner had testified that tara likely went unconscious after 15 seconds of strangulation. but then, it probably took another three minutes and 45 seconds of grant choking her before she actually died. prosecutor smith took out a stopwatch and set it ticking for four minutes. plenty of time, he said, to think about going through with the murder and just as significantly, plenty of time to make the conscious choice to stop. that, he told the jury, also constituted premeditation. >> when i said tara grant is now unconscious, those next three minutes and 45 seconds were an eternity. stephen grant had the opportunity to choose life or death. he chose death. >> the jury went out to deliberate and stayed out.

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