Says was in zimmermans heart on the night of the shooting. The jury had a question requesting evidence by number and description. The jury has finished deliberating for today and will resume tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. Craig melvin has been following this case closely and joins me from outside the florida courthouse. It was an active day. Now i guess quiet. Yeah, you know what, very active. 3 1 2 hours, three hours, 30 minutes. Thats how long the jury spent deliberating this afternoon into evening. Shortly after they received the evidence and informed judge nelson they were done for the day. Theyll go home until tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. And will begin deliberating once again. We should note here that judge nelson is leavinging this essentially up to the jury how long theyll deliberate, when they start, when theyal start their day. When they will end their day. So it will be interesting to see me sizely how long they go until tomorrow. You mentioned the courthouse for all pract
But first lets jump into some of the Biggest Senate races today. Good afternoon. I am krystal ball. As we come on the air, some 90 Million People are voting in what our team has characterized at the longest, most expensive, most talked out Midterm Election cycle in our history. Nbcs luke russert has managed to escape from capitol hill. Hes in west des moines, iowa. Luke, Senate Candidate republican Senate Candidate there joni ernst, one of the republicans top recruit this is cycle, what do you think is happening there today in the Hawkeye State . Reporter well, joni ernst is coming into election day with a lot of momentum. She had a sevenpoint lead with the Des Moines Register poll. Her opponent bruce braley made a series of missteps throughout the campaign. She seems to have capitalized on those. Whats really interesting is theres been this question about who cares more about people like me. Joni ernst in the Des Moines Register poll tested better that for a democrat to do is quite su
keith morrison (voiceover): was it true? if kevin tubbs really did see michele in the early morning hours of september 12th, then the prosecutor s case was in ruins. because cal harris couldn t have murdered her some seven hours before. and an innocent man had just been convicted. and so the judge tossed out the verdict, called for another trial, and sent cal home to his kids. many, including michele s family, thought tubbs story was bogus. everybody knew he was lying. you know, i mean, it was the most bizarre story that you could have ever told. keith morrison (voiceover): and of course, when trial number two opened in 2009, the prosecution attacked tubbs credibility. why did he wait six years to come forward? still, for the defense, tubbs was pure gold. a man to create reasonable doubt. there simply isn t enough evidence to convict cal harris of murder. keith morrison (voiceover): bill easton was one of cal s attorneys. there s not an eyewitness to it, an ear witness to it.
when he came back with the not guilty, i was just i was shocked, i was truly shocked. keith morrison (voiceover): shocked, overjoyed, and saddened by what he d lost. the best years of um my life as a parent. and i ll never get those years back. keith morrison (voiceover): he will also never stand trial for his wife s murder again, exonerated now, and free, finally, to speak his mind about his terrible 15-year ordeal. from my standpoint, personally, i think one of the greatest hypocrisies in our country is our criminal justice system. there is nothing fair about it. keith morrison (voiceover): now, a man goes free, vindicated. but the mystery endures, about a woman who vanished on a warm september night while the rest of the world was looking the other way.
keith morrison (voiceover): the da was going to take the case to trial, even though there was no body, no murder weapon, and even though he himself was, by no means, convinced he could prevail. i thought that it was maybe a 50/50 shot at a conviction. i thought that a jury could go either way. craig melvin: coming up oh, it hurts. absolutely. all of it was just taken away. craig melvin: prosecutors come on strong. he told her that he would put her body in a place where it would never be found. craig melvin: when dateline continues. [theme music] finally, listening to my wife, i went to a doctor and then i became diagnosed with hodgkin s lymphoma. that diagnosis was tough. i m a concrete mason. i own my own company. i went from being a guy that could pick up anything i wanted, to having to ask for help.