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Counity Prayer Services today. Kerry, whats the mood down there . Reporter well, the pastors opened the church today and invited the community to join them along with the mayor, the police chief, the city manager, and to talk about what has happened here with this not guilty verdict. This is the way the system works. It was a demand by the community to have a thorough investigation to lead to a trial, if there were charges. There were charges. And then to accept the jury verdict. There are those who say they find it hard to accept the jurys verdict because they feel they watched much of this trial and heard Something Different. So in the effort to make sure that there was communication so that there is not a violent protest of people frustrated, theyre opening the lines of dialogue, making sure that people are listening and that the mayor and the police chief and others ....
0 most cases, from ever, for the rest of their lives serving on a jury. that means that 30% of african-american men nationwide cannot serve on a jury for the rest of their lives, even if the conviction is 30 or 40 years in the past. so african-americans who are more likely to be defendants, are less likely to have a jury of their peers. it s also important in cases like this where an african-american is the victim because there s a lot of racial disparity in cases with african-american victims. that s one of the underlying causes i think we all need to look hard at in the wake of this verdict. yeah, i think lisa makes a very important point there. it s one that goes to the baseline. the problem with looking at any trial in isolation is people have very different baselines for what they think the rules are and what s fair. lisa is speaking to the fact that the baseline might be a jury of my peers and that sounds good, but we have all sorts of laws which reflect decisions about who s o ....
0 lisa bolloom, we ll talk to youn a little bit. we ll discuss the impacts of the closing arguments with our legal panel in about 30 minutes. we are on verdict watch right here at msnbc. be sure to stay with us for the very latest in the george zimmerman trial. now to another story developing today. this one in texas. a drawn-out battle over access to abortion is entering another crucial phase. texas, now set to become the next state to adopt one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the country, after a late-night session, the senate passed a bill that will ban abortions after 20 weeks among several restrictions. the bill now goes to governor rick perry, who is poised to sign that. inside and outside of the state capital in austin, both sides of the debate voiced their own opinions, including one protester who was carried out of the chamber. because women s lives are on the line! birdwell? duncan? i want to be able to have the option of getting an abortion. it s my choice ....
0 it was hands down the longest day of court so far. last night, at one point, judge nelson had to actually extend george zimmerman s curfew. he is supposed to be in the house by 10:00. she ended up extending his curfew by 30 minutes. we expect, we use the word here expect, because over the past few days, we ve been thrown a number of curveballs as well. we expect she is going to decide on a number of things. first being that animation. they spent a great deal of time last night talking about this animation. let me stop you there. i want to throw to some highlights of what this back and forth was and let s discuss it on the other end with you and lisa. here it is. if he s going to swing at me with his right hand, if i turn this way somehow, it might come across so yeah, so yes, it could be. what we heard is they use it for the movies. great. this is a murder trial. this isn t casablanca. we re not talking about this isn t ironman. there s one it s one thing to say i m going to ....