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Is that a possibility? >> i think that they've really over reached with intent in second degree. i think this is a manslaughter case at the most. certainly the state of mind of george zimmerman, if he truly believes his life was in jeopardy and the jury believes that then the prosecution has got a big problem. second degree the problem is more exaggerated. you have to show more intent, and more you inclination to use that weapon before the fight, not during. bill: we have our hand now on one of these 911 calls, bradford. again this is something that may or not be interest dupesse introduced of...

Trial gets started is that the defense is not saying their client didn't do it. they are saying merely that it was a crime of passion, that she just snapped which would make it a manslaughter case not first-degree murder. they say the woman was consumed with jealousy and rage when she murdered michelle lee in a parking garage last year. she was convinced lee was having an affair with the father of her child and carefully planned out the killing, finding out lee's schedule so she would know wher. lee was a nursing student who disappeared about a year ago. local police pieced together the myster...

Do you agree with that? there's a lot of evidence to look at, we presented some of it just as straightforward as we can, doug. because it seems like no matter what you say, it can shift someone's opinion of what happened here. but joe brings us back to beyond a reasonable doubt. so as the prosecutor here, you know, what stands out to you, and do you agree that the reasonable doubt part's going to be tough for the prosecution to approve? >> i agree, and i disagree, and here's why. i agree that the case was overcharged. but if it was a manslaughter case, the defendant would face two really big p...

11 participants, that's one of them with hazing. in convicted the maximum anyone could face would be six years in prison. again, the question is why not murder or manslaughter charges? one answer says state prosecutors is that it would be tough getting convictions with the evidence that they have. >> the testimony obtained to date does not support a charge of murder in that it does not contain the elements of murder. we can prove participation in hazing and a death. we do not have a blow or a shot or a knife thrust that killed mr. champion. it is an aggregation of things which exactl...

"ac 360" starts now. piers, thank you. good evening, it's 10:00 here on the east coast. we begin tonight, keeping them we begin tonight keeping them honest with the question that seems to have no simple answer. how can someone be fatally beaten, kicked and suffocated, allegedly by more than a dozen people, and yet none of those people, not one, face murder or manslaughter charges. that's one key question in the killing of florida a&m band member robert champion. he died from a brutal hazing, and he died from crossing bus c, where the victim is made to walk down the aisle of the ban...