which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, and manslaughter, which if done with a firearm, has a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, hearing both the defense and the prosecution, what do you, what do you think is likely to be the impression the jury goes in, before we hear any of the evidence that they send for or try to review? well, you know, rev, i think interestingly enough, the two things i think the prosecution did firmly establish was, number one, that george zimmerman did follow trayvon martin, notwithstanding his statements. and number two, that he did act with spite. i think it s hard not to interpret, you know, f ing punks and these a-holes always get away. i think that they could clear that bar. so i m not sure if that gets you to the level of second-degree murder or not. that s really up to the jury. but i think that faith makes a really important point. the only person that establishes george zimmerman s self-defense claim is george zimmerman,
and bernly de la rionda making the jury question whether george zimmerman, number one, was truly following trayvon martin longer than he admitted to police, and also whether he actually pulled out his pistol long before he says he ultimately did. bernie dela ron darks the lead prosecutor for the state, the number one prosecutor out of the jacksonville office, who ultimately 15 months ago to this day charged george zimmerman with second degree murder. he said basically all of this starts months ago with previous crimes in the neighborhood, and previous suspicious characters, getting away, and that was part of the reason why george zimmerman created the neighborhood watch. de la rionda pointing out that he has made several assumptions about trayvon martin. number one, up to no good. on drugs or something, suspicious. lumps him into the group of a-holes that always get away. this group of punks he referred
yuri, 6ors and 3 alternates. the alternates don t know they are alternates. they will be told tomorrow when the 6 jurors will be sent into the deliberations room. at 1:00 sharp eastern time is when prosecutors, the state of florida will make its closing arguments in this case. expect that in about 2 hours. martha: what do we expect to hear in that closing argument? reporter: prosecutors are going to have to hit hard on that first initial police car george zimmerman made on the night of february 6, 2012 when he was following trayvon martin describing him to the police dispatcher as suspicious or on drugs. that s when he uttered two phrases involving curse words. he said these a holes, they always get away, and as the prosecutors pointed out, f ing
in fact we re told they had to create some additional space. craig melvin, thank you so much. joy reid, the prosecutor said the one word you should take out of here is the word assumptions. i m not disputing what lisa bloom has just said about the evidence, but as far as the prosecution are concerned, they are working hard to explain that george zimmerman, in their view, assumed that trayvon martin was a criminal, and was about to perpetrate a crime. yeah, absolutely. the first pardon of if the argument was devoted to that, and because he said he wanted to are a police officer, because he said on the 911 call, the e if. f ing punks. the a-holes always get away. essentially noble did he want to be a police officers, but essentially thought he would do better. he knew the police were coming,
going to get them to the end goal of a second-degree murder. s because nobody knows what happened, nobody knows who started the fight. one is dead and the other one is not talking. so that s the problem here the defense will give up and say these questions. they just conceded that. they could be firmly convinced thatself dense was not being used here, and that s the unfortunate problem here, and it s going to go back to the state of florida. the prosecution were working from much of what george zimmerman had said instead, reference to the a-holes who