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I was embarrassed when a female defense attorney would stand up and talk about the long dirty toenails of a dead man, a man that was shot and killed. i was embarrassed when a defense attorney would stand up and ask a judge to, include black pastors from a courtroom. those things are just not part of american juris prudence. what we found here, what people of this community who are 11 whites, one black, they were able to look at the evidence in this case. the evidence was pure and simple. you had a black kid jogging through a neighborhood, minding his own business as he was jogging and you had ...

It should never have been. >> charles: also, and i find this often, we've seen very wealthy people of both races, all races seem to win when it comes to the legal system. more recently people point to bill cosby getting out of prison. do we often conflate classes for racism and is this a chance to say maybe a better educated jury -- i know when the judge was thanking the jurors, i thought it was important his instructions to them. department feel like he was talking to them. felt like he was talking to the public watching this about us as a society being more clear-minded and more understandin...

Prosecutor just trustee with me now. obviously everybody is making comparisons, jim. what should we know, what are the -- where do you think people are making the mistakes? >> well, i think there's a bottom line similarity in terms of the presence of video. that's the only thing that is perfectly consistent. that is an interesting phenomenon with the injuries now. they're not being called upon to weigh credibility of witnesses as much as to assess the legality of videos. when you look at the evidence, not the hyperbole in the rittenhouse cause, it was a young man running from the scene, being ...

Prevailed in a case. >> we just heard one of the lawyers say just about the same thing. it's unfortunate that in this day and age, this is still the prevailing narrative. anything like this happens, that's the first thing that we look at rather than the case itself, the family itself, the individuals themselves. i mean, you've seen it all, been a police detective and also a lawyer. is this the beginning of something or is this part of something that's been ongoing perhaps? it's not worth -- it's not newsworthy because maybe it's not controversial? >> you know, i think we've always had fair-min...

Sentences of life in prison. outside the courtroom, there were cheers. i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto. jeff paul is in brunswick with more. jeff? >> very emotional time here in brunswick, georgia on multiple levels. some people in celebratory mood saying the jury got it right. you have other folks that have been out here on days on end that have been exhausted by the case that have a sense of relief. they said looking back at past trials, they thought there was a chance that it wouldn't go in their favor and nobody would be held accountable. that's not the case. according to the jury's d...