with my attorney, if my life were hanging in the balance. >> they've gone out of their way to try to park the raise sentiment to one side here. make it more a case of a local vigilante type character who's just gone after and gone into a fight with a young youth. do you think that will sustain itself through the trial or it inevitably will turn into a race trial? >> i think it's hard to avoid race in this trial. johnnie cochran said famously years ago, race is a part of everything in america. i said many times and believe race is the most retractible issue in this country. it's lard to imagine it doesn't rear its head, legitimately in this case. having said that, i don't believe that justice delayed is justice denied, but it's taken so long for this trial to get to court, they've beaten up on trayvon martin so horribly in the process of these 18 months or so. i hope justice delayed will not