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Instructions that are online and in the rules of criminal procedure books indicates that the offense charge of second degree murder, a category 1, is manslaughter. a category 2 is third degree felony murder. vehicular homicide, non-homicide lessers would be an attempt, culpable negligence, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, battery and assault. these are part of the jury instructions that have been known to this court since i've been on the bench. so-disclosure. >> would the court ever for a second think -- >> i'm not finished speaking. >> i apologize. >> thank you. the possibility of a c...

Also, there is some instructions to give only if there is evidence of what is seeking to be defined. >> the basis for the 776.412 instruction is chapter 776.012 which the court just read and the court read it correctly, that it requires, one, justified in the use of deadly force doesn't have the duty to retreat if one -- >> 776.012. i'm looking at the instruction. >> well the -- but -- i'm saying the instruction refers you to the statute. i'm reading the statute. >> okay. >> the statute says a person is justified in using force to accept deadly force against another when to the extent the pers...

Animation and that reenactment of the crime scene. that is possibly going to be used in the closing arguments for the defense. remember, that judge debra nelson said it can't be used as evidence. the jury can't take it back to the jury room and they can't touch it or see it play out there, but she says it can be used as a tool, a demonstrative tool and that seems to be, from what we understand, what could happen when the defense gives its closing arguments. to let this jury see how the defense team believes this played out and, in the animation, i believe we have video of that. but in the anim...

What truly happened and seek justice. >> reporter: lee says the investigation started that night. they took george zimmerman into custody for questioning and he claimed self-defense and the sanford police department let him go. your lead investigator suggested manslaughter on that initial police report. why is it for 40 plus days george zimmerman walked a free man? >> the laws of the state of florida and the constitution require you to have probable cause to arrest someone. the evidence and the testimony that we had didn't get us to probable cause. if we had people that were witnesses that cou...

No evidence of anything other than this statement that trayvon martin was a minor, 17 years old. first of all, i move to strike it as surplusage, because it's not related to any element of the offense for which george zimmerman is charged, nor related to any conceivable lesser included offense. so, i guess what's happened now, since the time that the state filed it's information in april, that they've been lying in wait, collecting all this, loosely connected child abuse case law, where 2 year-olds have been shot by someone who is reckless with a gun, or some child exposed to horrible deprivat...