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Phone to call 911 instead of nonemergency and when i reached into my pants pocket that's where i keep it out of habit it wasn't there and i was shocked. i looked up and he punched me and broke my nose. >> one shot. >> he said to you, you have expletive, do you have a problem. >> do you have a problem. what's your problem? >> you said to him actioks i do have a problem. >> you reach for your phone? >> i reach for it as i was saying no, i don't have a problem. >> at that point you just got hit? >> he was already within arm's length from me. >> was that the punch in the nose that broke your nose?...

This was from the beginning a debate between self-defense and not guilty versus manslaughter. i'm willing to bet one or two people we suspect were holding out were trying to justify manslaughter on the act of him getting out. manslaughter only involves an intentional act that ultimately resulted in someone's death. i'm willing to bet the two holdouts was saying getting out of his car was the intentional act. not necessarily following the directions of the nonemergency caller operator, it was the act of confronting trayvon martin, however they interpreted it happened in that room was the intend...

Should have agreed through stipulation to excuse and eliminate those particular areas that didn't apply so you wouldn't have jury confusion. >> they're saying it's been a long day and they're tired and they're sitting in that jury room and they don't know what's going on in the courtroom. >> i believe with john's objection, sustained, this part of the jury instruction probably should not have been in there and so perhaps that's what's causing the confusion. >> we're going to take a quick break. actually, let's go back. i want to go over some of the very specific pieces of this case and i know ...

Violent, threatening. he had to put his arms out. they weren't. they were not. they were not. they were clutching the bullet wound on his chest. the car. he had to make him sound menacing to justify what he had done. listen to those tapes again. the walkthrough and the nonemergency. play them side by side right after each other. it's physically impossible the way he told the police, impossible, that trayvon martin ran behind those homes, cam back and circled his car. why is he lying?

So, where's the guilt? no, that's not my burden. where is the nonguilt? well, never screams. mr. guy screamed, de la rionda screamed. george zimmerman didn't scream on that call. then, to cover up his nonscream at one point mr. de la rionda suggested to you, no cell phone. under his breath. what he wants you to assume within that context, he said it under his breath because he wanted to say it, but he didn't want nonemergency call to hear it. and then he wants you to assume that what that means is guilt. serious seriously. here's the way you do that.