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Perry, live from the courthouse in brunswick, georgia, and maya wiley, an msnbc legal analyst. good morning. cal, what have we heard so far? and this was the prosecution wrapping up its case. what do we expect for the rest of the day? >> reporter: good morning to you, sir. so we expect to hear the prosecution sort of finish up those closing arguments. then the defense will take their turn. keep in mind, the prosecution will have a chance to rebuttal. now, prosecutor here, linda dunkinkowski has done a wonderful job with travis mcmichael testifying on thursday. and the prosecutor, as you've bee...

Weapons and large capacity magazines. >> it does the firearms. it does not say an assortment it bans magazines. it describes them but doesn't prohibit them but the village administrators and fathers are saying it does been magazines. we disagree and that is one of the aspects of our suit. >> another exception to this ordinance was deleted apparently, self-defense was an exception, no person shall be punished foriolation of this section if an assault weapon is used in a lawful act of self defense or in defense of another but they deleted that. >> they took out the self-defense aspect of the ori...

These ahs always get away. >> you have to go for the depraved mind and all we have is a bunch of curse words on a 911 tape. obviously the defense is going to say that that does not rise, that is not proof that should put this man in jail. you know, we have again the self-defense aspect. one of the reasons why the defense stayed away from the lesser included defense in arguing that because they feel if you find it for second degree, then you have to find it for the lesser included. >> we'll go through the elements of second defense. lisa, paul, tad, karen are all staying with us. coming up, the...

Manslaughter charge. this is very problematic for the defense. the defense argued to try to get this excluded. i believe if they had been successful in doing that the jury would find it hard to reach the second degree murder. the manslaughter is slightly lower amounts of saying you have to show your reckless disregard is going to be more difficult for the defense to say there is no way that this guy overreacted. this is reasonable. so you are talking about self-defense aspect becomes perhaps a little more shaky. it's what the prosecution will probably say in rebuttal. >> can you explain how a ...

He shot him because he wanted to. that's the bottom line. >> karen de soto, then one asks, well, what is the evidence for that? that he had malice in his heart and wanted to, i guess it's the f-ing punks, these ah's always get away which is an important aspect of proving second-degree murder. >> absolutely. you have to go for the depraved mind. and all we have is a bunch of curse words on a 911 tape. so obviously the defense is going the say that that just does not rise that is not proof that should put this man in jail. and, you know, we have again the self-defense aspect. i think one of the ...