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Next month having that jury vet all of the evidence. >> so it's six members of the jury in florida for a case of this nature that's a noncapital punishment case. martin family attorney benjamin crump, i can only say when we first started talking about this, you wanted a day in court. the family want addai in court. that's all they said -- that's all we protested for. those days have now come about, and we'll be watching. >> thanks for your time this evening. >> thank you, reverend sharpton and your audience. ahead, glenn beck is sorry for being a divider. yeah, he really wasn't. we'll show y...

Of weeks. how do you feel about the jury selection process and a couple of weeks. what is your feeling about it, attorney crump? >> well, reverend sharpton, i do think that it's going to take a significant amount of time. and the family is patient. they want to get a fair and impartial jury. they're doing it where they're trying to find out what pretrial publicity the jurors know about the case, have they formed any opinions or biases. and then once they determine that, then they're going to impanel 21 people at a time and ask them different issues about why they should or shouldn't serve on t...

You have formed some particular opinions about this case. you have certain biases with respect to this case as well. that's the challenge of each side. the jury questionnaire is going to be extremely important for them to get the most key, pertinent information from these jurors that they would not be able to ask in open court setting. and a lot of times you can use that questionnaire to really gather some compelling information so that you can build your case based on some of the themes that come out during the questionaire that they review. >> attorney coffey raised a point i want to close t...

God's arms. we ask that you continue to pray for trayvon and our family. thank you. >> a fair and impartial trial. that's all anyone has ever wanted in this case. today marks a new turn in a long road toward justice. joining me now is former prosecutor faith jenkins, former u.s. attorney kendall coffey, now msnbc legal analyst, and dr. marshall hennington, a nationally recognized trial and jury consultant. thank you all for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> faith, let me start with you. how important is jury selection? and can a trial be won or lost here before attorneys even make the...

Decided not to charge mr. zimmerman in the case. >> in this case, mr. zimmerman has made the statement of self-defense. until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we don't have the grounds to arrest him. >> this young man would have shot this man, would he have been arrested? he definitely would have been arrested. >> this guy was not arrested. i don't understand. as a mother, my heart is broken. >> as the controversy grew and the coverage went national, the president of the united states weighed in. >> this is a tragedy. i can only imagine what these parents are going through. and...