waiting to hear the jury s verdict. i d be interested to know from the expert analysis here is i would have assumed that once that jury went back there, they would have taken one sort of initial what do you think, some sort of quick vote? if that has happened and we find out they re not in agreement and there s only six of them but it appears now they have to go over everything. a lot of times if there s eight or 12 jurors, it takes them a little bit longer than six jurors. may or may not. you never know. there could be a 6-0 decision one way or another, could be 3-3, 5-1. they have to be unanimous either way. a big gesture, strong emotions today. how the prosecution played on jurors sympathies and the defense tried to play them down. also first on cnn, the defense attorney answer as driving question during this trial, is george zimmerman a racist? martin savidge s interview with mark o mara is coming up as well.
monologue and you re staring at somebody talking to you. i think that needed mixed up a little. i think bernie de la rionda was a little too fiery. who am i to tell them? they all did a good job up there. now it s up to the jury. he was professorial, giving a lot of history, a lot of background, mark o mara we re talking about. sunny, some of the stuff he was getting in during the course of the three-week trial in the weeds but maybe he wanted to give those who want a not guilty verdict some ammunition. yeah, i think that that conversational style works quite well, somebody for someone like mark o mara, who generally appears to be that kind of person. we ve seen him be interviewed and he doesn t have that fiery
of the exhibits on the list. sunny, surprising for me to see they don t have this already ready, a list, an inventory of the evidence. wouldn t that be something that they would have ready to go? why do they have to do it in the middle of deliberations? yeah, i mean, i certainly always had an inventory list of my evidence. i m sure jeff did as well, perhaps mark. sometimes you don t think you need it. sometimes it just not done. but i was surprised as well. i will say this. a lot of people around the courthouse are saying, you know, verdict tonight, verdict tonight. that has never been my impression, but the fact that they wanted the inventory list so they could see what evidence was in there and they could sort of pick and choose by number tells me what i thought. this is a methodical jury, they re going to look at everything. what does it say to you, mark? i agree with that. i think they can look at whatever they want to look at hold on a second, mark.
no-nonsense judge. debra nelson. they ve recessed for the day, the jury and the courtroom. they deliberated, if you re interested in this and you should be if you re interested in this case, they deliberated for three hours, and 33 minutes today and will resume deliberations tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. earlier this hour we heard mark o mara deliver a little bit of his close, argument. he s the defense attorney for george zimmerman. the assistant state s attorney john guy had the last word. he rebutted and he spoke about trayvon martin s involving trayvon martin s name for a final time. to the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe the truth. what do we owe trayvon martin? 16 years and 21 days forever.
from zimmerman s lead attorney mark o mara, insights you ll be seeing right here first on cnn. cnn s martin savidge sat down with o mara before today s dramatic close, arguments and went over some of the most controversial moments of this trial. you took what i think some might consider risks during the trial. one of them being that you cross-examined a grieving mother. yes. any regrets on that? no. i hope that people think or i think that i handled it properly and respectfully. i have handled i think 40 or so murder cases and in every one of those murder cases you re going to have some interaction with a victim s family. you certainly would hope that your son trayvon martin did not that could have led to his own death, correct? had you done that before? had you talked to a grieving