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Zimmerman is striking. you know, trials are about defendants, and his -- zimmerman's intent, zimmerman's background, zimmerman's intent, that's what the case was about and trayvon martin, there really was not much of an opportunity to present a human face on him or -- >> i don't know -- >> look, if you were the prosecutor in this case and you had not been used to putting away young black men for the last 20, 30 years, you -- you might have painted a picture where they would resinate with trayvon as opposed to zimmerman. what was masterful by the defense, the defense made this about george. the...

Zimmerman was. >> absolutely. her identification with zimmerman is very striking and somewhat unusual. the degree to which she feels sympathy, even almost an affection for zimmerman is striking. trials are about defendants, and his -- zimmerman's intent, zimmerman's back ground, zimmerman's intent, that's what the case was about. and trayvon martin, there really was not much of an opportunity to present a human face on him, or was there or should there have been? i don't know. >> if you were the prosecutor in this case, and you had not been used to putting away young black men for the last 20,...

George was spanish or puerto rican, i don't think it had anything to do. but people are looking for race to be part of this trial. >> back with my panel. i should point out, there have been a lot of attention that yesterday this woman and her husband had a book agent and were shopping around the idea of writing a book. today, she put out a statement staying they are not proceeding with that. she has no intent to proceed with trying to get a book deal. >> can i just say, every question you asked her, she answered with the defense version. every question, yes, i believed the cartoon. yes, i beli...

His -- zimmerman's intent, zimmerman's back ground, zimmerman's intent, that's what the case was about. and trayvon martin, there really was not much of an opportunity to present a human face on him, or was there or should there have been? i don't know. >> if you were the prosecutor in this case, and you had not been used to putting away young black men for the last 20, 30 years, you might have painted a picture where they would resonate with trayvon as opposed to zimmerman. what was masterful by the defense is, the defense made this about george zimmerman. they made those jurors want to help ...

I would not discount it. >> it's a serious possibility. the civil rights division has been much energized under eric holder. they've been much more aggressive in recent years than they were in the bush administration. i think they're going to look at it. >> what specifically do they look at versus what the state looked at? >> well, the gist of it is it's very similar except that the motivation underlying it, the intent level is not -- is intent to violate his civil rights, intent to harm him because he was a black person. that's a different charge. >> or they could do a hate crime. >> an they'...