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VERY MUCH.
SHE REALLY LAID IT OUT SO
CLEARLY.
I WANT TO BRING IN JACKSONVILLE
DEFENSE ATTORNEY JANET JOHNSON.
JANET, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME
OF THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THIS
CASE POSSIBLY AND THE TRAYVON
MARTIN/GEORGE ZIMMERMAN CASE.
BUT FIRST, THE WHOLE
SELF-DEFENSE ARGUMENT.
IS THIS PLAUSIBLE?
THIS IS A MAN WHO LEFT THE
SCENE.
HE SHOT A BLACK TEENAGER.
THEY WEREN'T IN ANY PHYSICAL
ALTERCATION, LIKE IN THE
MARTIN/ZIMMERMAN CASE, RIGHT?
THEY WERE IN TWO SEPARATE CARS,
AND HE SHOT EIGHT TIMES.
I MEAN, IT SORT OF SEEMS HARD TO
BELIEVE IT.
THAT IT WOULD BE SELF-DEFENSE.
>> NO, YEAH, I AGREE.
AND WE ALL THOUGHT THAT LEADING
UP TO TODAY.
BUT CORY STROLLER DID AN AMAZING
JOB, I HAVE TO SAY.
HE DID LAY OUT THE FOUNDATION OF
SELF-DEFENSE.
ONE OF THE THINGS BEING -- AND
EVEN JOHN GUY, WHO IS THE
PROSECUTOR IN ZIMMERMAN AND THE
PROSECUTOR IN THIS CASE, EVEN
JOHN GUY SAID, LOOK, THEY WERE
JAWING AT EACH OTHER.
WE DIDN'T HEAR THAT FROM TRAYVON
MARTIN.
WE DIDN'T HEAR TRAYVON MARTIN
WAS ENGAGING IN A FIGHT.
BUT ACTUALLY, JOHN GUY ADMITTED
THAT TODAY, AND THAT HE WAS
DISRESPECTFUL.
CORY KIND OF TOOK THAT AND RAN
WITH IT, AND SAID, NOT ONLY WAS
HE DISRESPECTFUL, HE THREATENED
HIS LIFE.
AND HE LAID A FOUNDATION THAT I
THOUGHT WAS REALLY INTERESTING,
THAT THE PERSON DRIVING THE CAR
WAS ON FELONY PROBATION, AND, IN
KT FA, VIOLATED THE PROBATION BY
BEING OUT LATE.
IF THERE WAS A GUN IN THE CAR,
THAT PERSON WOULD HAVE TO DITCH
THE GUN, OTHERWISE HE WOULD GO
TO PRISON.
HE DID A GOOD JOB.
>> AND YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THE
PROSECUTORS WERE THERE IN THE
ZIMMERMAN CASE, YOU KNOW, ANGELA
CORY, JOHN GUY, ABOUT YOU HOW IN
THE WORLD DO YOU JUSTIFY IN
SELF-DEFENSE WHEN IT TURNS OUT
THE PERSON THAT'S SHOT HAS NO
D
GUN AT ALL, EIGHT SHOTS?
?
>> WELL, I DON'T THINK THE
DEFENSE WILL SAY THE PERSON HAD
NO GUN.
YOU HEARD HIM SAY IT WAS A GUN
OR A PIPER.
HE SAID EITHER ONE IS A WEAPON.
HE'S GOING TO SUGGEST, AND HE
SAID THIS IN THE PRESS, THAT
THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY, EVEN
THOUGH THERE'S VIDEO, BUT THERE
WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO
DITCH THE GUN, BECAUSE THEY DID
DRIVE AWAY, AND THAT THE POLICE
DID NOT SEARCH PROPERLY AND
DIDN'T FIND ONE, IF ONE WAS
DITCHED.
>> SO THEY'RE NOT -- THEY'RE NOT
EVEN ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THERE
WAS NO GUN.
ALL RIGHT.
>> THEY'RE NOT STIPULATING TO
THAT, NO.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
IT WILL BE A FASCINATING CASE.