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Strategy on the part of the prosecution. by putting in george zimmerman's statements, by telling the jury that race had nothing to do with this, we have to respect this verdict. but clearly the juror did have another alternative. they could have given some weight or zero weight to george zimmerman. they didn't have to give him all the weight. that was their decision. that's what we give jurors. we give them the power to what weight goes with evidence. they could have come up with a different verdict. >> paul, how do you take the fact that when she said the statement about trayvon martin had a ...

Majority opinion and decided to return a verdict of not guilty. so paul, there was a split in the jury. your reaction? >> you know, as a prosecutor i know the prosecutors were shaking their heads in frustration. if they could have had that person hold out longer to have gotten to a mistrial and then had another chance at this case, i know that's got to sting knowing they had someone held down for so long. and i know that that's how they heard that information when the juror was talking about having someone on their panel that couldn't make a decision and that was holding out and that eventuall...

And reportedly wiped away a tear during the prosecution's rebuttal. she's the only juror that has not released a statement or said anything publicly since the trial. and she possibly could be the holdout, paul? >> she possibly could. what i think is interesting is she did not join the other jurors who felt motivated to distance themselves from b-37 who didn't feel as motivated to articulate that she was more sympathetic to trayvon martin like the others. what i imagine from her is that she feels internally more of the pressure if he does come forward to address and talk about the race issue be...

Having fought with george zimmerman and believes george zimmerman had a right to shoot him. and it shows to me that she threw out so much of the prosecution's testimony especially that of rachel jeantel. what happened to that? rachel jeantel testified that she overheard trayvon martin say why you following me for. heard somebody else who had to be zimmerman say whag are you doing here. and later trayvon saying get off me, get off me. what does that mean to her? where did that go? that girl was completely dismissed by her as though it never happened, so it seems to me. of course if you do that,...

Charge rather than overcharging which is what i think the prosecutors did here. >> no way. no way. absolutely not. >> they had the manslaughter charge. there was an option for them and they were presented with both. this juror said very clearly based on the law, they had no choice but to acquit of manslaughter and of murder. when jurors are supposed to vote their convictions based on the evidence. yes it's also their job to negotiate their point of view with other jurors. a lot of times when there's a split like this, it depends on the strength and personalities of the jurors. and you could se...