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another legal case in the news the george zimmerman defense has rested at
the end of yesterday's
uh... dane court
the the judge deborah nelson said her idea is that today we will have a brief
maybe one hour discussion
over the jury instructions the instructions that the jury will get and
then we will move into the closing arguments from the state
followed by the closing arguments from the defense and then finalizing with a
re bottle closing argument from the state
that hasn't happened
as of about forty minutes ago
we were still in the middle of discussions about
the jury instructions about how many different lesser charges will be
presented to the jury as options we don't need to get into the minutiae of
that now
uh... the that that when a point your your prior tension to two things number
one
the broward county sheriff's office put out a video
asking for people not to riot
after than george zimmerman verdict takes place i will leave that their
there could be
significant uh...
uh... unrest in the streets
regardless of what the verdict as i think they're individuals this case is
so highly charged on both sides that whether it's a guilty or not guilty
verdict
there are likely to be very angry people in the either case
and clearly the broward county sheriff's office is worried about a listen was you
spent quite a bit of time in broward county over your life
uh... is this it may be not particularly to that area but
are they right to be concerned about the reaction to the verdict
yeah i i i was there so definitely
uh... like i talked about with you i i'd predict had someone will try to kill
or mostly people try to kill zimmerman if he gets off
and that you know
i wouldn't expect chaos
in broward county when the when this goes down but i would definitely expect
a lot of angry protesters india and as i said before i think it's pretty clear
what happened here which is that
none of this would have happened
had george zimmerman
not initially confronted trade on martin driven martin was unarmed the stories
about george zimmerman being pinned down by trade on martin just don't seem to
factually stand up to basic analysis we talked about that earlier in the week
you can check out those quotes i won't spend five minutes rehashing it again
today since we just did a few days ago
but i believe there's a very very good jam chance
that george zimmerman is going to be found not guilty that he will be hailed
by conservatives which is really weird actually but is this has become a
liberal versus conservative
type of thing that that actually strikes me as pretty odd
and i think that the prosecution has not been a particularly good job if they get
a guilty verdict on any of these counts it will be
it will be uh... incredibly
uh... it will be a huge victory for them against what i'm trying to say
the defense has done a good job of basically embarrassing
a number of different key prosecution witnesses
and while i think that
the entire framework of the standard ground law has allowed this case to to
go in the way that it hasn't been may likely lead to george zimmerman being
found not guilty
i do think that the entire context in which this was prosecuted was just an
absolute disaster
yeah uh...
with so little firsthand witnesses evidence of exactly what was happening
right on this dark rainy day
or can you do
jer and the burden of proof is somewhat been reversed normally when you kill
someone
uh... uh...
the the the burden of proof is is on you to prove that you bet it was self
defense but because of the combination of standard ground laws and the the
definition of what second degree *** is in florida
it is the burden of proof of the prosecution to prove
that george zimmerman did not fear for his life and that's a very very
difficult thing to prove
will be watching the verdict what will happen use for you as this happens