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Zimmerman. second-degree murder. but at what point might we hear about the lesser charges, manslaughter, and how will the jury be given the information, the option to go with that if they can't agree unanimously on second degree murder? >> first let me say i think o'mara might be making his moment for judgment of acquittal argument outside the presence of the jury and then the state will rest in the presence. but to answer your question the jury gets to hear the lesser included defenses at the time they're instructed at the end of the case where everybody has rested and they may have lessers l...

Asking him to stop, telling mr. martin he was going to call 911 and mr. martin continued to ignore him and continued to batter my client in whatever form or fashion however number of times he did that ended up with the injuries that my client had. they can't ignore that evidence to a jury and they really should not be able to ignore it to you on a judgment of acquittal argument. >> argument on behalf of the state? >> thank you. respectfully mr. o'mara gets the arguments backwards for starters because justifiable use of deadly force is a defense for which the defendant actually bears the initia...

Has to exclude a reasonable hypothesis of innocence. it has to be precisely at that moment that mr. zimmerman became the mastermind murderer at that moment who said, you know what, i'm going hunting, i'm going after him, i'll call you when i'm done. there's no evidence to support that. no evidence to support that, not in the tone of his voice -- by the way, if in fact he was going hunting, probably would have had his gun out. probably wouldn't have had the broken nose. he probably wouldn't have had his nose bashed several times. they want to throw out this inference and say look at that in a v...