and stereotypes and frankly prejudice that this man possessed. and dwloong that was clearly set forth in the trial. but it was sort of one of those underlying issues. we ve got to figure out how we address these issues as prosecutors, because i know that on the one hand, it s a very polarizing issue for the jury. you sort of insert that and for some juries, they don t believe that racism is still an issue. or they don t want to be confronted with it and have to address it. so prosecutors sort of dance around it sometimes. but in a case like this where this man has been so explicit in his letters about how he feels about black people, he even said he didn t want black jurors on this the juror for this very reason because he knew he went through that narrative in his testimony. going forward, i think we have to look at that in jury selection and how we address that issue going forward. well, we ll talk more about him and his opinions of race coming up. faith jenkins, ken padowitz and l
that the defendant is presumed innocent. but you should not have laws that are so confusing that when the jury goes back into the jury room and tries to apply the law to the evidence, you re going to have a lot of misinterpretation. you re going to have a lot of confusion. and confusion leads to reasonable doubt. so it s a problem for the state of florida. if you want to enforce the laws, you want to get rid of this law. now, lisa, you had talked about earlier this law with me. you had talked about how it was in this case the defendant that seemed to almost tell her some of the things that he said when he took the stand that fit the elements of this law. let me give you an example. i was trying to get her to relax and stop hyperventilating and calm down, explaining to her that it was self-defense, that we were not in trouble with the
thinking or why they re thinking it. all i know is that they re doing it. i don t know what agenda they have. the case is over but the judgment continues. george zimmerman may have won his freedom but he ll probably never be truly free. i have a lot of people say they guarantee they re going to kill me and i ll never be a free man. i ve realized they don t know me. a lot of people who sit down with me and my family, they get a different perspective on me. when you re somebody and people look at you, what do you do? smile. how often do they smile back? 99% of the time. the 1% that don t are the most vocal percent, definitely the most threatening percent because they are very vocal about their displeasure. people are angry, george. they re angry.
the same justice that whites do. their lives not mattering as much. this case became a metaphor, an example from that. your face became the face of this is the guy who gets away with killing a black kid. what do you do with that? hope that i m dispelling those. if it takes one person a day at a time, to help them realize that that s not what this case was about. then that s what i ll do. just fascinate to go hear him speaking. this long after the case. and, of course, on the heels of the dunn case. also interesting to hear if george zimmerman shows any remorse about the loss of trayvon martin. we re going to talk with the man who did the interview, chris cuomo. and also with the attorney who defended zimmerman in court. mark o mara. chris and mark, coming up, next. your eyes really are unique. in fact, they depend on a unique set of nutrients. [ male announcer ] that s why there s ocuvite to help protect your eye health.
murder one, premeditation. but if they thought that he was not justified, they could have went down to second degree, which is the absence of premeditation or even manslaughter. they didn t do that. they hung as to that point. so it leads you to conclude that there were some jurors, we don t know the breakdown, could have been 11-1, 10-2, and we ll learn that eventually, i hope, if they come and speak to us. but you ve got to think that there was some hang-up as to whether or not his fear was rational, reasonable, or not. and that s what it was. but i know one thing. there was no at all confusion, right, as to what they did find in attempted murder. that second car. right. the second car. the volley of shots too much unnecessary. exactly. and they got him on that. okay. so paul, weigh in here. you know, people have watched a lot of it play out on tv, in part because i m sure not one person was able to follow every single moment of that case, no matter how hard they trie