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Stop talking while you go back and look for it. >> john, since you suggested this is very critical and, you know, i think the general feeling has been that this favors the prosecutions, the fact that they've even asked about this clarification of manslaughter, if you're george zimmerman's attorneys, is the wording particular wording, that important? >> absolutely. the wording is important because it may be that the wording is such that the jurors may decide the question of -- issues around self-defen self-defense, whether or not this is legitimate. i mean, the court gave three different areas ...

Defense? >> yes, your honor. >> i'll rewrite it so it's one handwriting instead of two. >> at that point do you intend to bring them into the courtroom? >> i was just going to give it to them. that way they can reread it over and offver again instead of me just reading it once. >> so obviously what they want them to do, lisa bloom, is let's get a question back from you that is very focused, very specific. >> right. all this boils down to the jury saying we have a question about manslaughter and everybody agrees that the response is, okay, what's your question? can you be more specific? we can'...

Can go in any order they want. i think it's possible and possibly probably that they have rejected murder in the second degree. >> john, do you think they tend to take things in order as they look at these forms? >> absolutely. that is the most serious one and people have to get some consensus about that. i would say this, clarification here by the judge is most, most critical. because the manslaughter instruction as i heard it the other day was kind of confusing. and a juror still could say that it's justifiable, that at the time that he thought that he shot, his life was in danger and the qu...

That testimony was something almost all of us could understand from personal experience. but there's no question that george zimmerman did get some injuries. the only went kwe is how se-- question is how serious are they? even his own attorney in closing argument conceded, yeah, it probably wasn't a couple dozen times, he probably was exaggerating. >> craig, we're in this half hour recess. we assume when judge nelson comes back, she'll have a decision about whether she's going to give any sort of clarification to that manslaughter charge. she has basically said, has she not, that these jurors ...

They can inquire specifically and perhaps get a response. >> and what john said, if you go through second degree murder and maybe they've come to an agreement, but if they're going in order, they've gone through second degree murder and they say, well, it did not meet that standard, do you find that juries tend to go line by line and there will be a specific line that tripped them up? >> there will be an individual line. and there are so many different lines here, it can be confusing. the prosecution has to prove each and every element. there are still lines and elements in manslaughter. they ...