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Attacked on that basis. certainly you want witnesses who are objective and don't have a dog in the fight so to speak. you have to credit her for bravery coming out and speaking to this point. although she's not the best witness, she's a sympathetic witness. there's two major defense problems. the first problem would be the imminent of the threat. are you in imminent fear of your life because popcorn is thrown at you? that's the one question the defense has to overcome. the second question equally critical is force used has to be for the threat posed. the gross disproportion between getting pop...

Especially sexual assaults and that is why they don't come forward. they get dragged through the mud and this girl was sort of vilified on facebook and harassed by her own community of young girls. sort of wearing the scarlet letter we often see of vehicles of sexual assault. >> she still is. from the defense perspective. i hear you saying what you can prove and how do you see this. >> it's so interesting because while i agree with a lot of what sunny just said to the extent that it's a victory, it's a hollow one. from a defense perspective, i really understand why we got to this place. there ...

Defendants. this kind of thing is going on everywhere. this kind of disability fraud. if you make a subjective complaint, the words that come out of your moth at the doctor's office can affect what your benefits are going to be. if they can prove that those were coached, i think that goes a long way. >> to the 9/11 part of it. that also ups the anger. >> it is big when you look at a jury pool. at the end of the day, you have jurors that have to evaluate this case. if they are not sympathetic to this cause and poisoned by learning these were abusive claims, it becomes problematic. when you have...

Self's defense, which means i have a reasonable belief my safety is at risk here, they're going to try to paint the actions of her as being aggressive, unreasonable. how was she acting when she was under the influence? from the defense perspective, they want to make it a huge part of the case in trying to paint the picture of what was happening on the porch that night. >> now, one of the reasons i think this case has received so much national attention is because the victim here was black and the shooter was white. yet the police when they issued these charges today, they say race does not fac...

His door, may have somehow led to his belief that he was being threatened. it's that insidious racism, that sort of racial profiling that may be a part of the case, that was a part of a lot of the other cases like trayvon martin. i think, of course, the police are saying, you know, race wasn't a part of our decision making, but perhaps it was a part of this defendant's decision making. it's something that people don't want to talk about but that we have to talk about. you look at the facts of the case and you have someone who was secure in his home. why not call 911 and instead go to your fron...