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And they promised a lot. the question the jury has to answer is, did they deliver? you know, ties go to the defense. if the prosecution hasn't put in the evidence everything they said they were going to put into evidence, no matter how emotional the testimony may be, it's not enough for a conviction. >> i don't know. that jury's made up of all women. several of those jurors are mothers. >> a mother telling the pain of losing her son, a mother telling stories about who she knows trayvon martin to be, and ultimately a mother who sort of sits forward and says, look, i have remained poised. look a...

And that's his voice. >> joining me now, page pate, a criminal defense attorney. jason johnson is an hln contributor and chief political correspondent for politics 365 and a political science professor at hiram college. tanya miller is a former prosecutor. good morning to all of you. so, so we saw trayvon martin's mother. and certainly that's probably what she's going to be like on the stand tomorrow. how powerful will that be, page? >> i think it is going to be very powerful. i think the jury expects to hear a lot of things about trayvon martin. i think the jury will then start to connect wit...

Was going to be questioned, meaning the prosecution, she was the prosecution's witness, was going to ask her questions and they were not going to be hostile towards her, but she did not understand until she appeared in the deposition with mr. west that they were going to be very hostile towards her on the cross-examination, and so what the folks are seeing displayed at the trial was her emotions coming out, because she had already experienced mr. west before, so she already had a disdain for him, as he had for her, so her emotions got the best of her on the first day. she had a chance to calm ...

Helps the prosecution prove that some of the things that george zimmerman is saying about that incident may not be true so it goes to the credibility of george zimmerman's statements that we heard earlier in the week. so i think it helps the prosecution in that regard. >> are you specifically talking about they found no prints from trayvon martin on george zimmerman's gun, and he said at least one time that martin actually tried to grab his gun. i'm talking about zimmerman, obviously. but there are no fingerprints on the gun. >> right. i think you would expect some fingerprints or at least som...