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When did you last see chris that day? day? >> we were at the house and we were both trying to hurry and get to where we were supposed to go. so he had gone around the house one way to try to find me and like comedy eventually we found each other in the hallway. and gave each other a kiss and a hug like we always did. >> that's the widow of american sniper chris kyle. after nine days of testimony and less than three hours of deliberations the injury convicted eddie ray routh is there three hours of deliberation and a dinner break. >> we have lisa green coming up. >> i will ask you, anyway the j...

Verdict that we have tonight. >> joining me now, legal analyst lisa green. good morning. >> good morning. >> three hours seems like a fast turnaround for deliberations. >> it included a dinner break, they served justice swiftly. in the end, the defense had a high burden to meet in attempting to persuade the jurors that routh was insane for the purposes of texas law, meaning he didn't know what he did was wrong. prosecution did a skillful job of piecing together an alternative narrative, led to the conviction so quickly last night. >> yeah. what role do you think publicity from the movie "ameri...

To watch the academy award about "american sniper," obviously it played a big role, a lot of questions whether this guy could have ever gotten a fair trial and as you pointed out, it only took them three hours and they had a dinner break in the middle of the three hours. >> you know his lawyers are going to appeal. that's his right a. very tough road to hoe. they tried for a change of venue, they were unsuccessful. legally, if these two victims were anonymous do-gooders i still think we would have seen the same outcome. why? because in texas the road to acquittal by insanity grounds is incredi...

Faithful and we're so thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight. >> we want to bring in msnbc legal analyst lisa green. good to have you with us this morning. >> thanks so much. we have been talking about this over the past few weeks. you just wonder whether a court is going to say this defendant could have gotten a fair trial, even if all of america were rooting against them and the hometown of an american hero who has the biggest grossing war movie of all time the jurors are taking breaks watching the academy award, how does any defendant get a fair trial under those circumstanc...

Disgraceful. that's how defense counsel felt about prosecution bringing this case in the first place. that's going to be something that will be judged today, for sure, as we give you this broad snapshot of the george zimmerman verdict this "new day." >> now, let's get into more specifics, especially for many of our viewers who did not have the chance to stay of late last night and are hearing about this today. it played out late into the evening and our correspondent, george howell, is in florida. alongside him, cnn legal analyst sunny hostin, who is also there and has been there all along, a ...