believe that this jury will buy into the self-defense claim and that wipes out murder two and wipes out the aggravated assault, if you believe the self-defense. but again, as we were just talking, if this jury of six women, five moms take a look at the evidence and they say by gosh, exactly what everybody is saying tonight, there is something wrong with the with the idea that if somebody could get out of their car, profile somebody as a perpetrator, follow them in the dark, be armed and then shoot them dead and it s just a kid walking home to their parents house. right. so if they see that, they could conclude that s cupble neg again and might overlook self-defense in that regard. that s why the defense is arguing so hard. they don t want those. absolutely, yeah. got to move on quickly, tom, to you about dzhokhar tsarnaev, the only surviving boston marathon bomber pleaded not guilty today
and that s what is so troubling about this case and that s why so emotional, piers. people all over the country are saying, especially minority parents, what if this were my child? that s a horrible feeling to imagine your child do nothing wrong but walking home minding his business and somebody gets out they car and chases him. let me turn to natalee jackson because you ve been in court. you ve heard all this evidence. i mean, there clearly is going to be a lot of contention over whether the case for second-degree murder has been proven. however, many people believe that there is a much more compelling argument for manslaughter or aggravated assault. could you see a situation where george zimmerman is convicted of one of those lesser charges, and would that be satisfactory if you couldn t get a murder charge against him? well, what is satisfactory is what the jury decides.
way and, you know, as a mother of three kids, you know, i sit in court every day and see the martin family and it s just a terrible tragedy, but the truth of the matter is, piers, there is a two-minute window where we don t really know what happened now, do we? we really don t know whether trayvon looped around and confronted george and purged him and george fell to the ground or george walked up to him and shoved him as rachel jeantel said and when you don t know what happened, you haven t proved what happened beyond a reasonable doubt. without understanding that kind of initial confrontation, you got to really, really tough hill to climb in terms of being the prosecution. now the only thing that i see as a possibility here because i do believe that this jury will buy into the self-defense claim and that wipes out murder two and wipes out the aggravated assault, if you believe the self-defense. but again, as we were just talking, if this jury of six women, five moms take a look at the
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back and zimmerman unholstered the weapon and moved it to the chest and fired. that s what the prosecution was doing final question, what do you think they will do? i have no idea. i won t i just don t know these jurors and don t know how they will consider the evidence and i don t know what the instructions will be from the judge. i just can t. i think the prosecution has not made the case for second-degree murder. manslaughter or aggravated assault. possibly down and depends on the instructions but they have not made the case beyond a reasonable doubt. the george zimmerman trial at times feeling stranger than fiction. what does a man behind burden of proof think of it all? scoot is next.