the judge said specifically what do you want to know? they never answered the judge back. we ve been waiting for a couple of hours. this is a sanford, florida. it s 9:53 eastern. they would have been deliberating about 16 hours at this point. george zimmerman was seen earlier shaking hands with his attorney after the first break in the case, and now that they ve come back from this dinner break, everybody in the courtroom, now the media have been called back. we re waiting for this verdict to be read. i do want to mention an interesting detail. george zimmerman throughout the trial had a 10 p.m. curfew as the defendant. you ll notice the time. we re just shy of 10 p.m. on the east coast. now, the trial had been going beyond the 10 p.m. point last week, the closing arguments, the witnesses, and each time that
grand jury. do you find any significance in that? i do not know what to say as a non-lawyer, but i mean, six women, no men, no blacks. that s a strange combination given the nature of the case between zimmerman and trayvon martin. six women, no blacks, no males. that s a bad makeup, it seems to me. well, and you know, when you compare the number of african-americans the truth is here that proportionally and statistically the jury pool was reflective of the community, but reverend, last question. will you accept the verdict, whatever it is? we ll accept the verdict if it s a verdict that does not give us murder or a at least manslaughter, no doubt there will be an appeal. i certainly hope the people do not try to go from court justice to street justice. that would be a big mistake. lots of innocent people would be hurt or killed and that will reflect badly on the legacy of
women, i said watch out for the fact that there are five moms on this jury. sure enough, the prosecutor honed in his rebuttal on the child in the dark being followed by a stranger. right. tugging on their heart strings. the judge didn t allow for that child abuse in a murder charge. courtney, having said that, do you think that the defense felt that maybe all of these women, you know, would not be inclined to render a verdict as significant and as tough and as long lastin lasting as a verdicf guilty in a case like this? thoot that s a great questio. i did hear mark o mara be interviewed. he objected during the voir dire process that the prosecutor was systematically getting rid of women. he objected and he said in his enteinterview that the judge agd with him so they had to stop kicking off women. i thought that was really interesting. i m surprised he didn t allow them to keep kicking off as many women as they wanted so they
happened, the judge would then have to extend the time that he could be out and about. but tonight just shy of 10 p.m. here on the east coast, there sits george zimmerman and we could in the next four or five minutes hear what that verdict is. i know that we do have some guests on stand by and on in onr studios right now, and i want to bring in judge alex and mercedes column win if we can possibly do that get their perspective on this. in the meantime, i want you to draw your attention to what s happening on the screen. you see people with their heads in their hands. they re tired. it s been a long day. you ve got assembled inside the courtroom, the defendant, his attorney. you ve got the prosecution. you do not have judge nelson. she s not there yet. obviously she ll sit between the flags. she hasn t been brought in yet, but we are all assembled. we are all assembled and we ve
hung jury. just six people deciding this. maybe three of them couldn t figure out what to do in agreement. we don t know. but whatever it was, now we know that there has been a verdict reached, so we ll take that off the table, the hung jury part. we potentially can take off second degree murder, and now we re looking at a manslaughter charge or an acquittal for george zimmerman. we re going to pause right now for one moment to let our fox broadcast stations join in.