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Were not only prejudicial and inaccurate, including the pictures they did show to the jury that were supposed to be menacing. every intro deduction about trayvon martin was detrimental to the prosecution case. it's that reason why i feel the prosecution should have been and could have done more with race not to have introduced it. i'll give you a perfect example. when they brought in that neighbor to say someone broke into that house and it was a black person, i was screaming at the television. well, what does that mean? it was not trayvon martin that broke into your home. and then they brough...

Them about how they came to this conclusion? >> well, let me give you my legal assessment of this. unlike reverend al who labored valiantly with the family from the beginning to make this happen, i came into this case with basically a clean slate. i didn't know much about it other than what i read in the papers. and i watched this trial minute by minute, day by day. reverend al knows, on his show every day. early on i thought the prosecution was not doing such a great job. by the end of the prosecution case, i thought they had improved. they had put on some good witnesses. by the end of the de...

Shaking his head and wants to jump in. avery jump in. were you as shocked as well? >> well, there were a number of reasons why i think any objective observer was shocked about this. there was no basis for dismissal at the end of the prosecution case. you know what? the jury has been deliberating now about seven hours which tells us that with 200 exhibits, 200 exhibits and the extraordinary testimony in here that the prosecution has a chance. now, having said that, i actually have to agree with richard that i don't think that the prosecution did the critical thing, and that was to disprove self...

Holds up a picture with a bullet wound through trayvon's heart, talked about his heart. if there's any strength to the prosecution case, jake, it's that these jurors may say, yeah, it could have been self-defense but ultimately we're all mothers or we're pet owners and the child died here. what is this case really about? a child who died and we have to hold someone responsible. so i thought guy of all the prosecutor was the most effective. far more effective than bernie de la rionda yesterday. >> tom, what do you think were the key themes from both sides today? >> well, i think the key themes ...

Of this hour with instructions for the jury. we want to bring in our msnbc legal analyst, lisa bloom and nbc's craig melvin live in sanford. 23 days of trial, 12 days of testimony, 56 witnesses. now finally we await a verdict. it could come, frankly, not long from now after the jury is read the instructions from the judge. lisa, i want to begin with you and just go back to what we heard over the course of the last hour. the final argument made by the prosecution. what was most effective and where did they miss? >> well, certainly going through all of the many lies that they say george zimmerma...