started the fight. right. you approach me. and i take up my gun. i shoot you, and i feel threatened. i mean, that s my story afterwards. that s my story, and i m sticking to it. there is something wrong with that. and sticking to the story, both the zimmer case, which as you said stand your ground was part of the summations and the defense, and now this case, two very high profile cases, no conviction in either, you have a case of marissa alexander, same county as this case that we are dealing with now. and that prosecutor who you confronted by the way denied and fought for her having the right to use stand your ground. she is sentenced to 20 years. not only didn t kill anybody, doesn t even shoot anybody. shot a warning shot at her husband who had threatened her life and has a history of domestic violence.
the case wound up being seen as a metaphor for miscarriage of justice, blacks not receiving the same justice that whites do, their lives not mattering as much. this case became a metaphor for that, your face became the face of this guy gets away with killing a black kid. what do you do? hope i m dispelling those, if it takes one person at a time, to to dispel that, that s what i ll do. i don t think the idea this is a guy with an agenda who worked the system, that s not what he is. he is really shallow when it comes to the law and all these issues that the rest of us are dealing with. and i think in a way it makes it even more important because this
situations. do you find yourself haunted by memories of that night? no. reporter: because? i don t know. reporter: george zimmerman is not haunted by taking a man s life. perhaps more surprising, zimmerman thought his life would stay the same. the feeling was that people will accept this. i m going to go through the trial, it is what it is, the outcome will be accepted, and then i move on. that s what you though would happen? i was hoping for that, yes. reporter: and when did you realize you weren t going to get what you hoped for? i think it was the first speeding ticket, when that made international news. it was shocking to me. you know, that speeding ticket made international news, but the speeding ticket would be the least of his concerns. just ahead, more of chris cuomo s interview with george zimmerman, and you would think that while the michael dunn hung jury and partial verdict is blowing up the headlines, that he would have something to say, given all of the co
waivers. that s why i say here, because he s got a history of doing this. he s been bitten nine times before. they weren t creating the situation. they re just filming him doing what he does. playing with venomous snakes, which is why i think they re not going to have a case against the network. and remember also, some of these shows filming people doing an illegal activity, whether it be intervention or drug addiction. this kentucky was actually it the first state to outlaw snake handling, and it raises a constitutional issue, which but it s been upheld. and in kentucky, if you re handling snakes, it is illegal. that raises another issue in liability. i ll tell you one thing. for all the criticism that reality show gets saying they re fakes, liars, i think this guy clearly believed what he was preaching. otherwise he would have been the first to race to the hospital and hope the cameras weren t he s a believer. and, of course, the passage that is cited, god will save you
all right. ken, your reaction to the verdict. well, justice was not completely served here. we have a stand your ground law in florida which trips up juries. it creates violence out on the streets. it places our young men and women in danger. and when it comes time for justice at a courtroom and a trial, the stand your ground law is inserted into the law, and it makes it more difficult for juries to understand how to apply this law and how to get to justice. when the evidence is as clear as it is in this case, and this was a very strong, very clear second-degree murder case. when you have a case like that, and then you insert this law that makes it very difficult for jurors to apply and to understand and be able to not be confused, you lead to problems where you can t get a verdict and you get a hung jury. and then on top of that, a prosecution team where the jury makes the same mistakes. it was clearly a case of being