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Jury instructions can be confusing and then in the midst of this you say, let me show you how i proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he acted in self defense. yes, it's a bizarre-o case. you assume this and burdened. the state must have said, oh, wasn't that great? somebody else has to prove something because we can't prove it. >> diana? >> i don't agree at all. he is known as the savant of closing arguments. i thought it was brill sant. he went in theory with a compromise verdict of manslaughter. here's what he's created. not guilty is now the compromise verdict. he's told them we have taken...

They, too, might have been afraid of trayvon martin. a lot of his defense hinges on the idea that trayvon martin would have been frightening to a reasonable person and that that's why george zimmerman's self-defense claim makes sense. >> did it show to you at all how much o'mara was bringing up the word sympathy or bringing up emotions and trying to almost be paternal to this all-female jury -- you're women, you're going to be emotional about it, you got to put that at the side. >> he realizes five or six of these jurors are mothers and that trayvon was 17-year-old high school student with sna...

Law that applies in this case. every shred of law that applies to this case, you will have before you. what you won't have is any law that suggests something like following somebody is illegal, because it's not. following somebody in a car or foot in order to report their whereabouts to the police is not unlawful activity in the florida law. if it was, you would be instructed on it. they would have a statute as part of your jury instructions that says something that george zimmerman did was unlawful and you won't have it because it's just not there or it's just not true. i'm over my time. i'm ...

Seema, why don't we start with you on that. >> overall, i've thought mark o'mara has done a masterful job in everything. what has stuck with me that's so disturbing is me is in the first half hour of his closing, he said this case presented itself like a bizarre-o case. i have a huge problem with that. when you're trying a case, it's crucial you show remorse for the victim. from jump, he didn't. >> i wonder if the jurors picked up on that. paul, what about you? if there's a key moment for you, what was it? >> you know, my big key moment was in watching the videotape re-enactment when they had ...

Asking the all-female jury to disregard any sympathies they may have. >> maybe he is a defendant. maybe he has something he has to defend. maybe in fact because the city attorney's office has decided to charge him, he has to have done something wrong. how many "could have beens" have you heard from the state in this case? how do you actually get to a level necessary for second degree murder when you don't know the person. defense attorney mark o'mara also played an animation there, depicting george zimmerman's version of events the night trayvon martin was killed. the animation judge deborah...