charges that will be explained to the jury then. kate? all right. much more to come. martin, thank you. joining me is cnn s senior legal analyst elie honig and bernarda. what do you think of this, the family attorney for the arbery family says was an ask by one of the defendants for a plea deal, one that prosecutors declined? so this does happen sometimes. very rarely. it happened to me a handful of times while a jury was outout deliberating. a defense lawyer said would you be interested in a plea? my answer was always a no. as a general rule as a prosecutor, you don t take a plea while the jury is out if you have any confidence in your case. the natural inference we draw is there s some concern about this defendant about the strength of the government s case against them. also important, this lawyer represents william bryan. of the three defendants in the