to prison for up to 30 years. as a presidential candidate, john edwards talked famously about the two americas, one rich, one poor. but as a defendant charged with using campaign money to cover up the sex scandal that threatened his candidacy, he heard his own slogan used against him. campaign finance laws are designed to bring the two americas together, prosecutor bobby higdon said in his closing arguments. and, quote, john edwards forgot his own rhetoric. the government argues edwards masterminded the plan to have two wealthy donors, fred baron and bunny mellon, pay more than $1 million, far beyond the personal limit for campaign contributions, to hide his pregnant mistress rielle hunter from the public. the prosecution called it a full rescue operation for a teetering campaign. but the defense argued the money came from a series of personal gifts to hunter. it never went into a campaign account, and edwards was most concerned about hiding the affair from his dying wife
not going to affect his two children more than him. do you think that that eventually might be what they base their verdict on? i think it might be. being punished enough? not him, his family, his friends, staff, supporters, the public, everybody s been dupd, harmed. everybody s got reservations even about the process because of what went on. i think the message is sent out, they re going to sit here and say the only two people left to be further victimized are the two children. that very well could be the reason in the back of the jurors minds at some point. let s go over the charges he s facing because they have to go through all of them, the members of the jury. four counts of illegal campaign contributions, one count of conspiracy. one count of false stamgtements. what s the key for the prosecution if they get a guilty verdict? there are two streams of money, one from bunny mellon, one from fred baron. i think the stream from baron is
the most hyped stock offering of the year got off kind of to a bumpy start. shares of facebook jumped more than 10% in the first minutes of trading, but then they started to go the other way. at one point the stock was hovering around an initial point of $38 before rising again. alison kosik has been watching all this at the nasdaq market site. alison, give us a sense, i imagine people were pretty surprised that the stock didn t take off. that s what you saw happen with the numbers. you saw that play out in the numbers. the expectations were really high to see facebook shares jump even as much as 30%. when out of the gate they didn t jump that much, i mean, 12.5%, it s a good day to start, but the expectations were beyond that. what you saw at least according to one analyst i talked to said when they didn t when a lot of traders and a lot of investors didn t see that pop materialize, they went ahead and sold. right now though facebook shares are doing pretty well. they re
before he died. abc s matt gutman has more. reporter: a trove of never before seen evidence collected by police. that fateful night. here, clear pictures of george zimmerman taken at the police station just hours after he shot trayvon martin. you can see what appears to be a swollen nose. the back of his head cut and bleeding. and in this newly released document, an officer on the scene notes zimmerman s nose appeared to be broken. and look at this grainy photo taken as zimmerman was sitting in the police car just moments after the shooting. there, too, his nose seems swollen. a doctor report first obtained by abc news reveals it was broken. also released, a chilling image of a gun zimmerman used to kill the unarmed trayvon martin. this document shows a police officer called the shooting, quote, avoidable, had zimmerman, quote, remaind in his vehicle and awaited the arrival of law enforcement. are you following him? yeah. okay. we don t need you to do that. okay.
an event that enraged the catholic church was interrupted by an abortion protester. it was a speech by health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius at georgetown university. let s listen. having spent my entire life in public service i spent my entire life in public service [ cheers and applause ] cheers of support there from the graduates. the church had blasted georgetown for inviting sebelius not because of the obama administration s position on abortion, but church leaders instead were angry over sebelius support of a law requiring employers, even religious institutions, to provide birth control coverage. the most hyped stock offering of the year got off kind of to a bumpy start. shares of facebook jumped more than 10% in the first minutes of trading, but then they started to go the other way. at one point the stock was hovering around an initial point of $38 before rising again. alison kosik has been watching all this at the nasdaq market site. alison