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Bodily harm does that include mere bruises as are likely to be enflikted in a simple assault and battery.testimony before the court whether the jury chooses to believe it or not, that's their purview, is that don't have to have any injury to be in fear of the justifiable use of deadly force. >> i agree and that's why the argument wasn't quite finished. what we're talking about here is the defendant's reasonableness of his fear. if his fear is only that he'll get a fist beating, for example, that is something that the jury should know in relationship to the definition of great bodily harm. >> i...

Aggressor. i think these text messages should be admitted. i have lots of cases where text messages that are authenticated to a person's phone, unless there's proof that somebody else uses the pictures are somebody els are admitted. i think she kind of weaseled out of that, by not dealing with the hearsay relevancy issues and fell back on the -- we can't be sure they're from him opinion i think they should have been admitted. >> i thought she weaseled out when she didn't take the defense request to go to the scene, so they understood what the scene was like under the same conditions. i don't k...

Endemic. >> last year alone the detail accompanied then-secretary clinton to 69 countries with more than 10,000 person nights spent in hotels abroad. i am not going to speak to specific cases as i said for obvious reasons. it is hardly endemic. >> reporter: the state department says some of the investigations are ongoing, and insists none have or will be interfered with. jonathan karl, washington. >> opening statements expected this morning in the high-profile mob case against whitey bulger, a judge refused the defense request for a delay. bulger is charged with a long list of crimes. he is li...

Changes for the bill to make it through that chamber. jury selection has gun in the trial of the florida neighborhood watch volunteer that fatally shot an african-american teenager last year. george zimmerman is accused of second degree murder, insists he shot trayvon martin in self defense. the judge denied a defense request today for several more weeks to prepare. still ahead, inside the nsa's dark star. first, could it be that the irs scandal is over and done with? (horn blowing)

Developing story in tampa, florida, where a school bus overturned this morning with two children on board. according to tampa affiliate wfts, another vehicle may have cut off the bus. the children on board are okay. but the woman behind the wheel of the bus had to be taken from the scene on a stretcher. look at that. amazing. terrifying. pretrial hearings continue in florida for the man who shot trayvon martin, george zimmerman's defense team sparring about potential pieces of yvonne the murder trial, set to get under way next week. a defense request to protect the identity of three potentia...