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It's actually relief and from the defense perspective, they felt like they were fhting the righteous battle, that they had justice on their side, that it was the prosecution's witnesses that -- and we all saw this. the prosecution witnesses became de facto defense witnesses. from their perspective what that speaks to is that they believe they're representing an innocent man wrongfully accused. i don't know that i have too much to blame for them in that regard. >> we have to leave it there. it's amazing. i've been on vacation the last week. >> welcome back. >> let me tell you, everywhere i went...

Potential sentencing considerations. and they don't know if they acquit on murder two and find him guilty on manslaughter, he's still facing almost 30 years in state prison. >> but what is important to point out, it is not, it is the defense perspective. the defense agreed to these six women and i think here's why. from the defense perspective, they are looking at it sort of stro typical that women are more afraid of something like that happening in the night time and somuját coming on to them physically. and they will be more worried about their physical safety and self defense is reaching m...

Unlikely for the jury to come forward, at least until some of the heat dies down. later maybe they will share their story. >> what are you saying? are you saying the country is so out of control jurors are afraid to come and publicly comment on the case because they are going to get hurt? is that what you're saying? >> i think it's possible in the jurors' minds it's out of control. at this point everything under control. prior to the verdict coming out, there were a lot of twrt feeds, social media feeds that said if george zimmerman was acquitted there would be riots and repercussions. for the...

Strategic moves, that's just my opinion. the jury may disagree completely. the prosecution has never been out of this. but the prosecution really got deeply back into the game when they got the judge to agree to a manslaughter charge, because what that allows, the biggest fear of defense lawyers, they would rather go for broke on murder two. the biggest fear is the jury says look, it isn't murder two, he didn't really have an evil mind to want to kill him, but the young man is dead, and you know, parents are nice people, it is so sad, they're worried there would be some compromise, even if the...

Caused the death of trayvon martin. they are lucky that the judge went long with the manslaughter. and so don't forget defense wanted all-or-nothing. we'll take our shot here and we fell they haven't. and they were kicking and screaming and if any reasonable vow of the evident that leaded the juror to conclude. >> we'll go from the defense perspective. they will argue self defense and so it doesn't matter. whether it was intentional, it was committed in self defense. look for the defense to be arguing that again and again and again. it doesn't matter what they charge. >> it covers everything. ...