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Arguments making a case of why the neighborhood watch volunteer should be acquitted for murder. thursday, prosecutors made their final pitch saying zimmerman lied about what happened that february night. zimmerman did not testify in the case. the jury of six women did hear his statements to police. a pittsburgh area man accused of setting a 7-year-old boy on fire. edward myers doused his girlfriend's son with a flammable liquid and his own son. the pair along with another are accused of shooting him with a pellet gun. he taped it on his cell phone. myers is in jail. more details this morni...

>> the non-enumerated felony alleged as child abuse. obviously the information alleges that the defendant shot and killed the victim, that the victim was under the age of 18. and child abuse must be, according to the third degree felony murder instruction defined. >> reporter: the defense attorney was outraged. >> oh, my god. just when i thought this case couldn't get anymore bizarre. >> reporter: the debate brought more testy exchanges between west and judge debra nelson. >> i've already ruled and you have -- you continually disagree with this court every time i make a ruling. >> reporter: in...

Bail, so he could have been out the whole time. forget about george zimmerman for a second. doesn't that team somewhat unethical for a prosecutor to overcharge you, to go the entire case, to not be able in their own mind to have the confidence to think they're going to convict you, and then the morning before you argue say oh, by the way, here's the other one, maybe you should have defended against this. this isn't a game. it is somebody's life. >> exactly. and manslaughter is a crime, a very serious crime. and if you are guilty of it, you should be convicted of it and put in prison. and that'...

>> you can ask. and fortunately, the judge did the right thing here, which was exclude it. it's not part of the case. but manslaughter, which i think we've all assumed has -- would be a lesser included offense, is part of the case, and so there are only two options for the jury now. guilty or not guilty on second second murder. the same question on manslaughter. this was, i thought, dirty pool to ask for the felony murder child abuse. but the judge saw that and excluded it. >> mark, it goes to what we were discussing last night, which was at a certain point by the prosecution coming up with th...

Couldn't get anymore bizarre, the state is seeking third degree murder based on child abuse? >> reporter: defense attorney don west didn't mince words during the hearing on the state's request to include a lesser charge of third degree felony murder as an option for jurors to consider. west called the strategy a trick. >> this is outrageous. it's outrageous they would bring this up at this time. they will consider manslaughter as an alternative to second degree murder. after more that you know a two-hour presentation, they used power point slide shows and other videos as part of the presentati...