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for free. shawna lloyd is a third-year law student in orlando, a 34-year-old intern working a case of a lifetime. have you had to explain what you re doing to any of your friends? sure. some of my friends debate with me all the time about it. reporter: what do they say? some of them think doesn t matter, he s guilty. some of them say, well, i m willing to hear the evidence. they span the range. reporter: observations span the range online as well. most are just curious who is she. why is she there. kind of what our position is, wh our role is, am i only there because i m black, those kind of things. i ve seen more curious questions than anything. reporter: but some comments are clearly judgmental and personal. there was one that caught my eye this tweet. black woman seated with zimmerman defense team is on wrong side of the courtroom and wrong side of history. what would you say to that person? i would say that they re not really aware of what history is if they think tha
she s sitting with the wrong lawyers, the african-american law student on the george zimmerman defense team has drawn attention in a case riddled at times with racial overtones and our david mattingly sat down with shawna lloyd and asked her if her client is a racist. reporter: in a case so inflamed by racially charged opinion it was almost impossible not to notice the young african-american woman on george zimmerman s otherwise all-white defense team. shawna lloyd tells me she just had one question for mark o mara. i said is george a racist. he said, no, i wouldn t work for him if he was. reporter: why was that so important to you? being an african-american, even if he was a client in need of representation, i don t know that i would have been able to divorce that and you have to have proper representation and people that can do that. reporter: if you find lloyd s involvement surprising you might be even more surprised to find out she s a volunteer working
0 held. the texas state senate has approved one of the strictest abortion measures in the country and bans abortions after 20 weeks and requires abortion clinics to meet standards that could force many or most to close. rick perry called a special session to get the bill through. you might remember it died last month following a nearly 11-hour filibuster. now, back to the zimmerman case. in an interview you re going to see first right here on cnn, his closing arguments behind him zimmerman s lead defense attorney opened up to cnn s martin savidge. mark o mara talking about his early concerns of taking on a client he was being called the most hated man in america. was it a concern for you that he might have been a racist? when i saw the 12-year-old trayvon martin picture and the 270-pound george zimmerman picture, yes, no question. and strangely enough, i think that s why most of the people who believe george zimmerman is a racist today got their belief when they saw those two pic