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Spiritual day, how did you feel about yourself? >> after he left shortly after he left i felt -- i didn't feel very good. kind of felt like a used piece of toilet paper. >> geraldo: stacey hanowitz is a veteran prosecutor who watched the state, florida, lose the casey anthony murder trial. stacey, i don't see how this jury in arizona will ever vote to execute jodi arias. i think that they will get her for murder two or manslaughter, but i think the state overcharged in trying to go for capital murder. what do you think? >> well, certainly you said that in casey anthony and certainly we disagre...

Legal basis, depending on how he couched what he said, could be a manslaughter. if you're talking about an accident, it could be -- he could be angling for some kind of a manslaughter-type charge. so that's a way to spin it, so to speak in terms of what actually happened. this does not strike me, and obviously i don't know this young man, but he doesn't strike me as a sophisticated person. and that's usually the case in cases like this. and if that's true, and he is unsophisticated, he may just be telling it like it is. i threw her against the wall does not usually sound like an accident. and ...

Geragos, criminal defense attorney and stacey hanowitz, florida state assistant attorney. she is the author of "my privates are private." mark, first to you. in this particular case, we're hearing some disturbing -- zurich admissions that are credited to this young man who said that he took her by the neck, hit her head against the wall, but then his attorney comes out and says this is an accident. you're a defense attorney. i'm sure that the first thing you tell your client, don't say anything. but these statements could hurt him. >> well, they could hurt. it's a double edged sword. if you're...

And if that's true, and he is unsophisticated, he may just be telling it like it is. i threw her against the wall does not usually sound like an accident. and he probably doesn't know the legal ins and outs. and so he may have just made a statement or sometimes what will happen is that the officers will kind of lead him into making a statement. and so you don't know how much of that until you hear -- actually hear the statement if it's taped or hear his version of what actually happened. >> stacey, in this case, they're looking at first-degree murder charges. how do you feel about those charge...

Think you're going to find this case is going to be fought out. the idea of whether or not there is malice. the difference between murder and manslaughter is your mental state. when you talk about rage, when you talk about a foot through the door, things of that nature, does that negate the malice so that you have a manslaughter? >> jim: but stacey, what about the edition of alcohol and the potential the potential that alcohol fuelled this rage, that he may have been going back to win her back, trying and being frustrated, and then as mark says, his rage comes out. does alcohol negate any of t...