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I've been stabbed and i remember who stabbed me. >> it wasn't dr. ben carson, was it? >> no, no. forget all this other stuff. on issues, he can't explain his tax position. he can't explain his middle eastern position. he can't explain his defense position and now he's taken some of the world's great monumets like the pyramids and turn them into grain bins. >> didn't that the prove the point, which is, shouldn't journalists, what ben carson would say is that journalists should be focusing on those things of substance and do away with his personal childhood stories that may have discrepancies. >...

>> what do you mean? >> it really is. because here i don't believe there's any testimony that he felt threatened by other individual members in the car. his testimony is one got out of the car brandishing what he thought was a shotgun. was that reasonable for him to believe there was a shotgun? >> and there was no evidence of a shotgun, stick, nothing. >> but there was evidence for three or four minutes when they fled the scene, they could have got rid of the gun. that's the defense position. whether it's viable or not, jury has to vie with that. but there's no evidence that any of the other i...

Recent decision from may in our court of appeals, when there are consecutive sentences sought or to be imposed, the court must comply with 2929.14c4 and i have to make specific findings relevant to those factors. and, since there was not a trial -- at a trial, i would have heard all the facts and could have applied them for sentencing. but here there was a plea, there was no psi, so i understand why the state presented some of the information. it was toned down greatly, as far as i could understand the original potential testimony at trial. so while i respect the defense position, at the same ...

Appeals, when there are consecutive sentencing sought or to be imposed, the court must comply with 2929.14 c four and i have to make specific findings relevant to those factors and since there was not a trial, the trial i would have heard all the facts and could have applied them for sentencing, but here there was a plea and there was no psi, so i understand why the state presented some of the information. it was toned down greatly as far as i can understand the original potential testimony, so i respect the defense position but at the same time in order to determine whether impose the recomme...

That this young man did not have the right to stand his ground. that once he fought back in a reasonable circumstance, the first time that the defense, that the prosecution said that was in the closing arguments. it feels to me from the beginning, they should have been making an argument that trayvon martin had a right to be afraid. he had a right to fight back against a stranger who was armed and prepared to use deadly force against him. >> and race came into this case. let's be clear about that. i watched the entire case. it was brought in by the defense over and over again in the most perni...