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beyond that, i think a lot of it is probably wishful thinking. >> maybe time can heal that for sanford as well. all right. craig melvin in sanford, thank you very much. we'll have more on the verdict later this hour, including the future of stand your ground laws and why zimmerman's legal concerns could be far from over. plus, democrats just lost a big chance in big sky country. what former governor swit zero's decision not to run means for the battle for control of the u.s. senate in 2015. first, a look ahead at today's politics planner. it is a busy day here. with another president bush today after he was with president ford and bush 43 in african, he'll be with bush 41 today. a very nice event on the points of light volunteer foundation taking place at the white house. wait a sec! i found our colors. we've made a decision. great, let's go get you set up... you need brushes... you should check out our workshops...
individually either. also aware the media at this point are not allowed to reach out to them either. this by order of judge nelson. anonymity effect for a while. theoretically it is possible we will never know how jurors reach the decision they reached. >> thank you to msnbc's craig melvin in sanford, florida. you have been on the ground for weeks. thank you for your reporting. >> thank you. >> i wan to brow the panel with me in the studio this morning. attorney lisa bloom is msnbc legal analyst. she followed the trial step by step. seema, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutors in the bronx d.a. office and editor in chief of global.com. he's founding board member for
effect for the foreseeable future. so, we may not know who these jurors are for weeks, months to come even. the jurors very much also wanting to get back to leading a normal life. >> i'm sure there's a lot of curiosity surrounding who they are, but certainly understanding why they may not want to come forward to talk about this. they had a lot of hard work ahead of them. craig melvin in sanford, thank you. as we've been talking about, george zimmerman officially being a free man, but the martin family were conspicuously absent from the courtroom while the verdict was being read last night. we asked their family attorney, daryl parks, why they were not seated for the verdict? >> we recommended they not be there and that they go ahead and travel back to south florida so they could be in church today. i think them being there probably wouldn't have added anything to what we witnessed last night. >> trayvon's father, tracy, sent this tweet out not long after that verdict was read.
opinion george zimmerman would, quote, find himself lacking during a physical altercation with trayvon martin in february 2012. joining us now is nbc's craig melvin in sanford, msnbc legal analyst, lisa bloom and professor cobb. professor cobb, thanks so much for joining us today. from what you've seen so far with the defense about to rest its case, how do you assess how this trial has gone so far from the standpoint of the prosecution and the defense? >> well, i mean, i think there was kind of an arc to the prosecution's arguments. they started off strong and then toward the middle of their presentations they seemed to kind of lose their way and then they closed with, you know, a series of really important points but you kind of wondered if they got lost in the fray of everything that was going on. the defense, i think, has been much more disciplined and much more focused and brought much
only the grip extending out diagonally in the center of his back, a shirt over it, a jacket over it it's pitch dark and raining. yet somehow in the midst of all of that while he's on his back, trayvon martin, he claimed, saw and reached for the gun. and in this re-enactment we saw both attorneys getting down, straddling the dummy, i love that but no one pointed accurately where george zimmerman had the gun. the defense has indicated the gun was in the front or they used the word "hip," hip is misleading. hip started in the frond and goes to the back. >> right. >> when you use the word hip you don't know what somebody's talking about, that's why everybody has to look at re-enactment video where he pats behind him to where the gun would be holstered. >> go back to craig melvin in sanford. i believe, craig, we know about the possibility of adam pollock continuing as a rebuttal witness. what can you tell us. >> adam pollock is not going to be coming back to the stand,
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