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Her own and dismiss the count. normally what they will do is let the jury decide, or, after the state has put or government has put on their evidence, then it's appropriate for some sort of a motion for judgment of acquittal. i think it is premature at this point for the judge to dismiss the first-degree murder count. arthel: then, doug, something else the jury will have to decide is whether the defense claim that jordan graham was coerced to confess that her actions were motivated by anger. that she chose to push her husband off a cliff. if you're the prosecutor, how do you convince the judge...

Defense argument of self-defense. george zimmerman's argument is it was necessary to kill trayvon martin. is it risky? we only have a little time but is it risky for him to give his opinion on matters like that? >> well, i think the way that he gave his opinion saying that it was unnecessary does not violate any of the findings and certainly reflects his opinion and i think if you talk to both sides of the fence, people that were supportive of the defense of zimmerman and people that were supportive of the prosecution, all collectively feel like the death was unnecessary, that this should not ...

He were in a standing position. that was an important defense argument. they refused to address the issue of race. they hid from the issue of race while the defense addressed it squarely. and they never offered a theory of the case. so when i was asked to indicate, as i think many legal pundits were. i want to emphasize to everybody listening, that doesn't mean the evidence wasn't there. i can't explain why the prosecution in this case made the decisions that they made but this was a very predictable outcome. >> we are less than two minutes away from the state attorney coming to the microphone...

Trayvon martin have seen that gun? >> he couldn't have seen it at that moment, absolutely. but he could have seen it during the struggle. i think at one point the roles were reversed. at one point, i think trayvon martin saw george zimmerman, and i'm not so sure from what angle. we don't know, that is the problem. >> but his story was at that moment he was on top. he -- the defense argument would really have to be, okay, well, i was a little bit off on that. it was not exactly that moment. it was a different moment. >> it could have been. >> so now you're a little off on the moment you shot an...

And that is what they're trying to do here. because the fact, i think the defense did a good job of presenting a defense argument. >> what is fascinating is, one closing argument, you got five people, five different ways of viewing it. that is what is so fascinating. >> that is what is interesting about these kind of cases. i think from my read of the two sides, this case is about compression. they want you to only focus on the fight itself, just that. just focus on the minutes, the injuries that george zimmerman got. compress everything else you can, and just think about that. but the prosecu...