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Very, frankly, unpleasant texts, and a photograph of him possibly holding a weapon. all of that would likely have come into evidence, if the prosecution had put in evidence of his good character. so i'm not sure the prosecution made a mistake in how they went about it. >> sunny, do you want to weigh in on that? >> you know, the judge had decided that the defense couldn't properly authentic a lot of that evidence. i'm not so sure that it would have come in, even if the prosecution had opened up the door. i think on balance, it's very clear that this jury didn't know the real trayvon martin, or ...

At these very moments when he's about to come out and when he's coming out, just before all these events unfolded, we heard the police say, "come out on your own terms, we know you're in there, come out with your hands up." one of them said, "you will not be harmed." but clearly they were ready for anything, as you can see from the training of these laser scopes. one of them said, we know you're bleeding, we know you're tired. those were some of the words from the police officers that accompany these pictures at those very moments. >> let's bring in our legal analyst, jeffrey toobin and sunny ...

Case, debates are raging over just when people do and do not have the right to use deadly force defending their lives and property. almost every state has castle laws, which generally say people in their own homes do not have to retreat from attackers before fighting back. more than 20 states have stand your ground laws, which extend that legal protections to situations outside the home. in almost every circumstance, however, the law requires reasonable judgment about the seriousness of the threat. that can make each case wildly different and that's the problem for cnn legal analyst mark nejam...

Ground on its own as the way to look at that and say it's okay for him to go home, it's a problem. the way the laws are written is a problem. and what juror b-37 says she invoked stand your ground as a part of the reason they acquitted and let george go home again. and that's a problem i think systematically in florida and across the country. >> let's let the florida attorney let mark nejame way in on that. what's your reaction? >> i agree with that in great part. we have a systemic issue that just permeates our culture. we have a great divide. we have inequities in the system. i've been doing...

You see him pulling his shirt up, when they asked him to do that, to make sure he had no weapons on him. so he does that with the laser scopes on his head. there's a picture of him climbing you have to boat. you see him swinging his leg over the boat right there. there is another picture of him with a laser scope on it. that's a picture of them attending to, i believe, one of his feet after his capture. again, very dramatic photos. and there's the one we were just referencing, just as he's emerging, you see the scope right on his forehead. they were trained on him in case anything happened, an...