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That evidence in the light most favorable to the state. still pursuant to walker has to exclude any reasonable hypothesis of innocence. i will suggest to you that now what you have before you, what the jury has before it, is not only some reasonable hypothesis of innocence, but a very well founded reasonable hypothesis of innocence. and that is that my client acted in self-defense. because though you do look at all the evidence in the light most favorable to the state, you have to look at all the evidence. you can't -- i don't mean to suggest this as though you don't know the standard. but you...

Or at least several times. that type of injury in and of itself, the way it was presented by my client, that injury and the ongoing nature of that injury supports the right my client, under 776 to believe he was in fear of future bodily injury. the state's own witness said one good indication of future bodily injuries is when you've already been injured and it's still ongoing, you can presume it's going to continue to occur. and that is in effect why my client acted in self-defense. and there's nothing, most importantly, under walker, absolutely no interpretation of the state's evidence which ...

Determination that since my client now has presented self-defense through the state's case, but it is now affirmative evidence, of why he acted in the way he acted that since the state cannot exclude a reasonable hypothesis of innocence based upon their circumstantial evidence, that the judgment of acquittal should be granted. that's under walker. walker also cites woods. and it is the woods case which also cites another supreme court case which is barwick, b-a-r-w-i-c-k. in 1995 florida supreme court case that also sort of began the premise in florida law that the judgment of acquittal is app...

Against concrete at least several times. that type of injury in and of itself, the way it was presented by my client, that injury and the ongoing nature of that injury supports the right my client under 776 to reasonably believe that he's in fear of future bodily injury because it was ongoing. the state's own witness, captain carter, said one really good indication of future bodily injury is when you've already been injured. and it's still ongoing. you can presume that it's going to continue to occur. and that is, in effect, why my client acted in self-defense. and there is something, most imp...

Hit, contacted without using the emotional word of smashed, against concrete at least several times. that type of injury in and of itself, the way it was presented by my client, that injury and the ongoing nature of that injury supports the right of my client under 776 to reasonably believe he's in fear of future bodily injury because it was ongoing. the state's own witness, captain carter, said one good indication of future bodily injury is when you've already been injured and it's still ongoing. you can presume it's going to continue to occur. and that is, in effect, why my client acted in s...