you re on the jury. nothing? that s funny. yeah. here with reaction to the strange opening arguments, mark. i was shocked by the knock knock joke. the knock knock joke should not have happened. if you have to apologize at the start. explain away if you don t like this, don t hold it against my client. just a no-no. shouldn t have happened. mark, your thoughts on opening arguments? well, when you look at the opening arguments for the prosecution, i think they are overreaching with the second degree murder, and even though they filed that, i think they are overreaching with intent. and as far as the defense, the knock knock joke, you don t even smile and joke with your call leagues at the prosecution table. are you completely professional
and been in them yourself, you will realize that george zimmerman didn t have very many injuries. certainly he fell backward and hit his head on the concrete once. his head wasn t driven into the concrete repeatedly. not a broken nose, but a bloo bloodied nose and no lacerations on his face. the worst end of a fistfight, but his escalation of force to meet the fists of a young man, 158 pounds on top of him to shoot him, he eliminated all other escalations of force he could have used, whether it was a hard object anywhere, or even striking trayvon martin with the gun in the side of the head. i m with mark on this. this case is going to be all about the details. and even if it turns out that george zimmerman was injured in the way he said, let s not forget, if the prosecution shows they ve said mr. zimmerman
claims and statements. his attorneys were watching, but he, himself seemed to be looking a different direction. when the 911 calls are played, the terrible sound of screaming and gunfire, he didn t really seem to be focused right on that. but again, this is interpretations you re making looking at him. but the whole gamut as you watched the day develop, sometimes very interested, sometimes appearing not so. martin, thanks very much. joined by our own legal team, distinguished panel, sonny hostin, jeffrey toobin, on the defense side, criminal defense attorney mark geragos, a look at how the criminal justice system worked and sometimes doesn t. marcia clark, deputy district attorney and author, her latest thriller, killer ambition. sonny, you were in the courtroom, the knock knock joke, how damaging do you think it was. a defense attorney normally
enforcement why it was he had just profiled, followed and murdered an unarmed teenager. reporter: in still another unusual move, attorney john west opened for the defense with a knock-knock joke. knock knock? who s there? george zimmerman. george zimmerman who? all right, good, you are on the jury. nothing? that s funny. how that played out with the jury is anybody s guess. the one thing that became very clear, west wanted to cover a lot of ground. for more than two hours, he laid out zimmerman s case with pictures and great detail, overkill in the view of cnn legal analyst, sunny hostin. you give a road map, but they gave too much.
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