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The prosecution, as we all know, has this burden of beyond a reasonable doubt. on this self-defense thing, many of you online keep asking as if george zimmerman's defense counsel has to prove that. they don't. that's what you're hearing from avery. the prosecution also has the burden of proof with self-defense. avery, you mentioned manslaughter. many people say here and kate and i have been hearing it all morning, that seems like -- that's foreseeable, that's likely, maybe the jury could find manslaughter. let's talk about the instruction to the jury for manslaughter. it's different than the l...

It's about 45 minutes past noon now. jurors in the george zimmerman trial are eating and discussing their way through lunch. they've been deliberating for over seven hours over the past two days. we, just like you, are waiting for their verdict. we'll be following their story throughout the hour as long as we can and monitoring other major headlines as well. there we are, live in sanford, florida. we're happy to have you joining us. i'm chris cuomo. >> i'm kate bolduan. we are watching and waiting for the verdict. while we do that, we're looking at both sides of the closing arguments, both sid...

Avery, please explain why this was important to the defense going into what's in the jury instructions about the use of a weapon and what that means of the reasonableness of thinking you're in serious bodily injury. >> self-defense, self-defense, self-defense. remember at the beginning we heard an opening statement by the prosecution that we were going to see all sorts of things, including trayvon martin on top. well, that went up in smoke. it never went anywhere. but when in closing argument, when we saw the way the defense showed the jury, look, this is what this means, looks at this concret...

0 lesser charge of manslaughter, or could he be found not guilty completely. if the jury can't reach a unanimous decision, we have a hung jury and a mistrial would be declared. >> the let's get back down to sanford, florida. don lemon is outside the courthouse. he's been working the scene. i understand you got a chance to talk to basically everybody involved including the prosecutors which is very unusual. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's as they say god works in mysterious ways. there was a little bit of misdirection this morning. so i got to the courtroom late. i said, man, i mi...

0 he's going backwards. mr. winters! clearly i missed something. >> all right. well, on that note that will do it for us today. >> that was inspiring for a moment for me, too. >> i'm not doing what i'm supposed to be doing if mr. winters is -- >> oh, my god, you don't want to see me a roller skates. >> me neither. >> but that was great, nonetheless, that was very inspiring. you have a great day. did you say good-bye? did i barge in on your conversation? >> you take it. >> all right. have a good one. >> you, too. >> thanks. a lot straight ahead, everyone. beginning with this -- the man accuse...