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Do not use any type of electronic device to get on the internet to do any independent research about the case. people, places, things or terminology. and do not read or create any e-mails, tweets, text messages, social networking pages about the case. >> in addition, while they spend the night at a hotel, their notes remain locked up in the jury room. as randi kaye reports, these six women are carrying plenty around in their heads. >> reporter: for weeks, the jury of six women has been a captive audience as prosecutors and defense lawyers try to sway them. from the moment it started, pure dram...

Client. you don't stay too much in touch with them. they have to go live their lives and we have to fight on for the next case. >> in terms of -- is there like preparation, though? do you -- i mean, i know you're focused on winning the case. but once it's done, do you put them in touch with somebody who has advice for how they actually live their life? somebody like george zimmerman, if mark o'hara is correct and he has to live in hiding for much of his life or he can never feel safe, how do you prepare for that? >> you know, you sit down and you talk to them and explain to them, look, listen,...

Either, any fact. if the decision was made by the state not to presented a dilted evidence to you, do not presume, do not assume and do not give anybody the benefit of any doubt except for george zimmerman. >> for the defense it's essential to make that point. >> i love it and it's important. this case is inverted. the prosecution is asking the jury to fill in gaps. well literally they didn't say that but asking them to use common sense and make assumptions and fill in where they really, i believe, failed to really create a narrative, a concrete narrative and i understand the main person who w...

Verdict. a lot of times in my experience, in doing hundreds of these cases, if you have your closing arguments on a friday and you finish in the morning, you can expect the verdict by 3:30 or 4:00 on a friday afternoon. in a case like this, they're aware the country is looking at this case. even if they had a verdict, and it happened in susan macdougal's first trial, the jury told me they had a verdict on friday but they didn't want to be seen as an o.j. jury, so they waited to monday and came back and delivered the verdict on the monday. >> this is a real thing mark is talking about, the lega...

>> right, and o.j. simpson is, i think the classic -- is perhaps the most extreme example because look, i wrote a whole book saying i thought he killed his ex-wife and ron gold man, but then he gets prosecuted in nevada on what i thought was a very weak case, got an extremely excessive -- >> take back his memorabilia. >> take back memorabilia but the guy who got the gun had no prison time. o.j. simpson gets this enormous sentence. so it's -- it's karma, you know, caught up with him but it was really, i thought, a very questionable case. >> mark, as i said, you initially represented michael jac...