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For the authority because they don't want to suggest that people might react violently to this verdict. since the rodney king case, which is almost 20 years ago, there haven't been i don't think, that i can remember, any community reactions to a verdict that were really bad. but local authorities also have to be cautious. i certainly based on what i've seen of this case expect that whatever the verdict is, the community will take it in stride. and i expect that's going to be the case. but you certainly want your local authorities to be prepared for whatever may come. >> the prosecution has tri...

The part that answers the jury's questions. it can be enormously tedious and you often find that jurors will ask for readbacks and then stop asking for readbacks because it so frustrating add tedious to listen to testimony read in a monotone. i don't think this video is used except for the news media. it's not officially part of the court record and the jury can only hear from the official court record. >> linda kenney baden, as long as the jury has brought the subject of evidence into discussion, what are some of the key pieces of evidence that you have seen in this trial, either for the pros...

Ready. so in any case, that is the point he was trying to make, that if he just stayed in his car, none of this would have happened. jeff, this is critical to the case. is it still self-defense if you're the one to approach someone in this this evening th became a conflict? >> it is self-defense if you're merely approaching someone and that person attracts you. there's no doubt under the laws they the case. but i do think it's a good point that john guy made, if zimmerman simply stayed in the car, nothing would have happened. but having gotten out of the car, he had the right, walk around, tal...

Had shot and killed george zimmerman, what would your verdict be? that's how you know it not about race. >> a contributing writer of "the new yorker" and director of research of african-american study joins us, he says this case is not about race. do you agree with him? >> i think from a prosecutorial standpoint, that's what he had to say. there's also the old truism that nothing certifies that something is about race than an unsolicited denial that this is not about race. race is at the heart of this. if it want about race, we wouldn't be here. but he doesn't want to seem as if he's race bait...

>> because the defense of pointing out that the prosecution has never laid out precisely how this crime unfolded, who was on top first, who was the aggressor throughout this fight, when did the at are case between these two begin. and what i thought mark o'mara did so successfully, particularly in that part of the summation, was to say, look, you can't convict someone if the prosecution is saying, well, it might have happened this way and could have happened that way. that was very effective because that ultimately is the heart of the defense is that they say the prosecution has not proved pre...