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Argument, she says i'm going to study it. that night she did and came to court prepared. >> reporter: prepared and ready to rule as she thought the law dictated. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> joining me once again, sunny hostin, mark geragos, jeffrey toobin and danny savalos. mark, last night you mumbled under your breath something, danny was talking about sort of like good guy judges and how often their courtrooms are a mess. and you mumbled something like, they're the worst. like you like judges who lay down the law. >> i couldn't agree more. when i talk about good guys, you can control your...

Is what they need to do. >> mark? >> remember, because they're the defense, this is their only time to argue. so not only do they have to go through and lay out self-defense, and lay out how self-defense negates the two counts that he's facing, but they have to anticipate what the prosecution is going to do. supposedly in theory, the prosecution's only supposed to rebut what the argument is by the defense. everybody knows that most prosecutors always lie in wait to sandbag you in the rebuttal. so he has to anticipate whatever arguments they're going to make in the rebuttal by sunny's boyfriend...

>> you can ask. and fortunately, the judge did the right thing here, which was exclude it. it's not part of the case. but manslaughter, which i think we've all assumed has -- would be a lesser included offense, is part of the case, and so there are only two options for the jury now. guilty or not guilty on second second murder. the same question on manslaughter. this was, i thought, dirty pool to ask for the felony murder child abuse. but the judge saw that and excluded it. >> mark, it goes to what we were discussing last night, which was at a certain point by the prosecution coming up with th...

On this earth. >> so that was the moment jeffrey toobin picked as the most effective. we're back with our panel, jeff and sunny hostin, danny savalos and mark geragos, all of whom have their own picks. you thought that was the best because the prosecutor really kind of brought it back home to what this case is all about. >> exactly. it's a reminder of why this case captured the nation's attention a year and a half ago. how can we live in a country where a 17-year-old boy goes to guy skittles and iced tea, comes home to watch the nba all-star game and is killed. how could this happen? someone w...

Defense has in this case is that trayvon martin was reaching for the gun and trying to get the gun. >> which george zimmerman claimed in that videotape. >> correct. and that's implausible to me. when you look at where the gun was, when you look at the nature of their struggle, i think that's a weak claim and it may be something that zimmerman came up with after the fact to try to justify the shooting. it doesn't mean he's guilty, but i did think there were several good moments in the summations today, where that claim -- >> do you think that's the weakst claim the defense has? >> i think the w...