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Time. >> reporter: the prosecution began opening statements with a flurry of obscenities relaying what george zimmerman told a police dispatcher minutes before he shot will trayvon martin. >> [ bleep ] punks, these [ bleep ] they always get away. those were the words in that grown man's mouth. >> reporter: for the defense, the deadly serious trial began with a joke. >> knock knock. who's there? george zimmerman. >> the joke fell flat but the defense recovered by catching the prosecution's star witness, rachel jeantel, who was on the phone with trayvon martin right before the shooting, in a num...

Lurking in the background. if there is no gun, nobody dies. okay. that's what people are thinking and saying and they are entitled to think and say had a. prosecution would have been better served -- look, this was fistfight. the injuries weren't that serious. he didn't go to the hospital. and guess what, the defendant killed him in a fistfight. limb would have done a 20-minute summation on that alone. >> in terms if you were to give your -- get esp right now, what do you think these jurors are going to decide? >> that's a great question. i have been really pondering this one. it is interestin...

Retreated. i just don't think that the defense did a good enough job explaining and showing that zimmerman's account was credible. zimmerman didn't take the stand. he needed to take the stand to show and, again, to testify he retreated, persuade this jury, he retreated and martin became the aggressor. >> while you are on that point let me go to this. judge ferreira told fox news earlier today he believes the defense had the upper hand throughout this trial but says defense attorney mark o'mara could have been more effective in his closing arguments and also adds the prosecution used more emoti...

Know, the props in a way. i think they were very useful and had the cutouts of the two figures which really showed that trayvon martin was so much larger than george zimmerman which was very effective and puts it right there in front of the jurors. he brought in the piece of concrete which he was able to show and that was very impressive to show this can be usedes a weapon. had was not just a child. he can use concrete as weapon, bigger man essentially he was. even though he was under 18. so they -- they did things in -- then, of course, had the animation which can be very -- when the jurors w...

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