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Crimes. george zimmerman is not on trial for lying. he's not on trial for profiling or coming to terrible assumptions about trayvon martin. he's on trial for murder or manslaughter. the prosecution never really hit hard back on the self-defense claim because the self-defense boils down to two things. the beating that george zimmerman says he got, which we now know was exaggerated. mark o'mara admitted that in his defense closing argument, that george zimmerman exaggerated the extent of the beating. it couldn't have been as bad as he says. all right. so that takes out a significant part of the ...

To quote the defendant, and pardon my language, he was one of those [ bleep ] that get away. pardon my language. he was one of those [ bleep ]. >> quoting george zimmerman's own words, the prosecution today said those words helped prove that he is guilty of second-degree murder. but now the jury will also be allowed to consider the lesser charge of manslaughter, and that could prove crucial to the verdict that they reach in this case. back with me is our legal panel. lisa, let me start with you, because you have to leave in a minute, and we'll see you later in the show. how important is second...

Florida has made this their cross to bear. they made the case hinge on proving that trayvon martin was the voice screaming and that opened up the defense. today, we have this panoply of fantastic, wonderful, lovable characters that get to talk in depth with their personal relationships on george zimmerman in order to justify their belief that it was him crying for help. so i think the jury went into today already decided for whatever other reasons whose voice they thought that was, but the defense got to put on all of this good character witness evidence and i thought it was really powerful an...

Prosecution case, that they may have been better off not overcharging this case. >> well, that's right. chris serino is a fascinating character in this story. he was the lead detective, who as you say did recommend manslaughter charges be filed. instead, initially no charges were filed. 44 days later after a special prosecutor was appointed, murder charges were filed. chris serino testified for the prosecution that he believed george zimmerman's story, that he reviewed all of the evidence, conclude the it was a self-defense case. chris serino, by the way, is no longer a detective. he's now wor...

On a scale of one to ten, george is a 0.5. and that's when he was skinny. now he'd be like a negative 200 because the man clearly has no athleticism as he sits there 150 pounds overweight. >> i think it's a small point but a nice point for the defense. ever since we heard about mma, mixed martial arts style fighting, in the prosecution case, we had a witness who said that the one on top was mma-style pounding and grounding. john goode said it was trayvon martin on top pounding george zimmerman mma style. >> but he trained for a year. it's like, if you have a gym membership with adam pollack, g...