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Virtually every person who's ever convicted at a criminal trial does appeal. you have the right to appeal. i will say there are some times when i see a trial and i think they could have one or two or three significant issues for appeal. i do not see that here at all. i can't think of a single major significant substantiative decision that went against the defense lawyers that will be enough to change these verdicts on appeal. >> go ahead, page. >> he's right. it's hard to win an appeal in georgia. a murder case goes directly to our state supreme court. there's not an intermediate appeals court...

Each day, you could see the crowd almost groan and be angry by what was being said, especially the nail stands out to all of us when you think about it. as you move forward and think about it, each one is going to be questioning about how they moved forward with pressing their case, but it's that video that really stands out to all of us, and clearly the way they were talking, they saw it differently than la lot of othe people saw it. the most important people, the 12 people on the jury saw it the same way the prosecution did. they felt they had another way of handling things besides getting o...

Large message to the country about where we are and about justice, and then you heard the defense attorneys for travis mcmichael say no, it's about these defendants, it doesn't have a larger point. what do you think? >> it does send a message. we need convictions, long terms to make people think about the things they're going to do, they're going to approach someone in their neighborhood with a shotgun, may think twice, hey, i shouldn't do this, perhaps i should call 911 and let them figure out and let them investigate. we have to make sure that the justice system and the wheels of justice tur...

Acedario. thank you for joining us on this. the family sued in february. now that they have this version of the video, does that change the narrative here, eric? >> it does. oftentimes, the cover-up is worse than the crime. and this is one of those issues where the police officers told them that christian's hands were pointed towards him and the gun was pointed towards him. and you see it's not. this is a very tough scenario, when we look at it. because he was on the edge of the bridge, he was threatening to jump, he had what appeared to be a gun and it's tough to see whether it's a pellet gun...

That. like his life was not valuable. like that was not a life, like bullets will not take a life. >> that was vaughn hillyard reporting. so you heard the assistant district attorney say it was a classi suicide-my-cop scenario, but here's what his dad told our yasmin vassoughian yesterday. >> christian was full of life and he was wronged of the opportunity to live it. i mean, here's the bottom line, i forced myself to watch that video. christian had his hands up the entire time. his hands were up. he never once pointed that gun at a single police officer. >> joining us right now, eric guster, ...