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And suddenly, she can't recall any of the critical facts around the time of the murder. >> the only problem with that is that they're going to explain all of that when they the defense calls the next witness. they're going to have somebody just like prosecutors do all the time who is going to come up and say that this is standard operating procedure with a battered woman. that their memory can be great, book ended around the incident itself, and that they go into some sort of trauma. that is how they're going to explain it. that is what the jury is going to be told. >> one reason we have a jur...

>> one reason we have a jury system -- >> you're right. >> the jury system can apply common sense. if you have a memory problem that is purely convenient, that you don't remember stuff that is bad for you but you remember stuff that's good for you legally -- >> and you never told anybody about your memory problem. >> you can call all the experts you want. >> the expert will get up there. i have had more than a couple trials where the expert will get up and i had it where the prosecution will call because there's been cross-examination on somebody, why do you remember this now? why didn't you t...

Bad for you but you remember stuff that's good for you legally -- >> and you never told anybody about your memory problem. >> you can call all the experts you want. >> the expert will get up there. i have had more than a couple trials where the expert will get up and i had it where the prosecution will call because there's been cross-examination on somebody, why do you remember this now? why didn't you tell anybody? and they're going to say, that is perfectly logical and rational for a psychiatric standpoint if you're suffering from battered woman's syndrome. >> we'll leave it there. nancy gra...

Execute her. that has to be the defense strategy. >> toobin, toobin, i hardly believe close-up shots of her behind is endearing her to this jury. the longer she's up there, the more they keep showing it, please. i'm numb from those shots. >> don't you think that after -- or taking this thing through friday, if that was the strategy, you had accomplished it, why go into the final week? at a certain point some of those jurors are saying enough is enough. >> she also said today that basically any time anyone yelled at her, it affects her memory. i mean, it seems like an awfully convenient excuse....

Until she was 14, she says, when she lived at home. then for all of those years between 14 till the time she met travis alexander, she didn't have a memory problem. now it's reoccurring on cross-examination. >> they were also sort of alleging this child porn or child -- interest in child sex against travis alexander. i mean, are they just trying to kind of smear him as much as possible? >> they're trying to smear the victim as if he somehow brought this on himself. the defense here, to the extent there is a defense, is self-defense. the idea that he's this horrible aggressive person is crucial...