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Nbc's gabe gutierrez is live in charleston for us. gabe, you had a chance to talk with the man who captured the shoot willingi shooting on his cell phone. what is his reaction to the mistrial? >> reporter: good. santana was that eyewitness that shot that cell phone video that resonated around the country. he was in the courtroom yesterday as the judge declared this a mistrial. i spoke with him last night. he said he was deeply disappointed by the decision, but here's the rest of what he had to say. >> officer slager when he testified said that he was in total fear for his life. do you believe ...

Having gotten a deadlocked jury, a mistrial in this case. so, i mean, you know, she has got five more trials to go. i would not be sitting, feeling very good about this case if i you were mosby tonight. do you disagree with me? >> yes, i do. i think the prosecution is somewhat encouraged by the fact that there were evidently a substantial number of jurors felt that officer porter should have been convicted an one or more of the charges. we don't know the breakdown. and someone will start talking sooner or later. >> well, if you you have heard that information, obviously there has been a bust o...

Here to cover the freddie gray trial. >> leland, thank you. and right now the lawyer for the freddie gray family billy murphy joins us to go "on the record." good evening, sir. >> hi, greta. how are you? >> i'm very well. have you spoken to the prosecutor tonight? >> no, i haven't. >> what are your thoughts on the mistrial?wb >> mistrials happen in about 5% of the cases that are tried in the united states. it's not at all unusual for highly contested cases to result in mistrials. and in about 70 % of the time when a case is tried again, after a mistrial, there is conviction. and thatç all goe...

Mean a second jury won't agree. >> billy, i tried cases for 12 years down here in d.c. i have seen all sorts of juries. and when a prosecution gets a hung jury after the prosecution has stood up and said we can prove this case yard and then it falls apart and they walk out of the courtroom with a deadlocked jury and a mistrial, that is a loss forj and there is no nobody that claims that one is aq!h win for the prosecution. >> well, i don't think either side won or lost. i think that given that this case is going to be retried, it's going to be on a clean slate. there are going to be 12 differe...

Wanted that jury to decide via the law, the prosecution wanted to decide via their emotions. if they decided via the emotions, they would have determined that george zimmerman was guilty and that would bring some sense of justice. but the law was stacked up against them. that's why these laws in florida are trouble for the rest of our country. >> and patrick, let me ask you, what about the impact of tv on this case? >> i think tv in a courtroom is a great thing. people don't understand what's behind closed curtains. they actually get to see it. i remember one of my first trials back in 1997. i...