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Mostly what you heard from jurors was just how dramatic the drug issue, the addiction issue has been in many of their own lives that was interesting point is looking through some of the people we're talking about. >> i mean, they have six men. they have six women some were gun owners, at least six who've had some family or personal connection to drug or alcohol addiction that as a jury composition, it could very well go either way. no one guarantees anything from any juror, but what it out to you about the composition so i think one is reminder that wilmington is a small place, a number of pla...

Lawmakers have approved a plan to double the amount of money prospective jurors and individuals chosen to sit on a jury receive for each day they spend at the courthouse.

Carolina. just as the south carolinian i get ask you to quit calling them a prominent family. they were a family unit insular part of the world that made a lot of money. we were starting to figure how they made money but they were prominent. >> i say perrault cooley prominent. >> to that point let me ask you this is something that's been raised in the broader point, there were many people on the jury not selected because they knew the family and they had links to the family whatever that may have been. did you have any questions about the jury composition itself in that context. >> to your poi...

Her, seems like family. i feel like the tears plus christmas are going to help her. that's what i think. what do you think? >> i agree. i think the jury composition is key here. i believe the manslaughter two should be a slam dunk for this jury. the question is whether a reasonable officer would have mistaken a gun for a taser and then use it to kill a person who she stopped for a traffic infraction. that's not a hard question. so if some jurors are struggling, it may be based more on their sympathy for this officer. maybe her tears on the stand were like the tears of kyle rittenhouse moved hi...

Video frame by frame. this is a very different jury composition. the idea here is they're potentially looking for self-defense. the defendant, travis, testified that for the first time, he added facts before the jury that arbery was trying to grab his gun and that arbery struck him with the gun. these are issues the jury needs to decide. i think the fact that they listened to the 911 call was really key here, because the idea is that, you know, greg mcmichael said -- they said what's the emergency. he said a black man is running down the street. that's what really this case is all about. i thi...