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. >> with michael dunn. let's move forward, martin. you mentioned earlier there are protests planned for the week ahead. what do you know about these protests. >> reporter: well, i think right now they're just sort of being loosely organized. some talked about wearing black bands or wearing black arm bands or black ribbons. this is something that would be organized both here in jacksonville and they're trying to encourage it across the country. these are protests always designed to be peaceful. in fact, when i was talking to protesters as people were awaiting verdict, i said, well, if it doesn't go your way what do you predict is going to happen? no one ever suggested anything along the lines of violence. what they said is there would be protests. there would be a very forceful message said that this would not be tolerated and that laws need to change in the state of florida. but always, always it was peaceful and it was always to be within the laws of florida. don? >> all right. martin, thank you very much.

reaction to what one of the jurors had to say about the case. >> the verdict in the michael dunn murder trial is raising questions. >> the jury delivered a verdict. >> he's accused of killing a teenager. >> dunn fired ten rounds. >> the shots killed 17-year-old jordan davis. >> dunn says he shot davis in self-defense. >> no gun was ever found. >> no weapon, however, was ever found at the scene. >> this was a mixed verdict. >> guilty on four of five charge against dunn. >> that's three counts of attempted murder. >> and one count of firing into the vehicle. >> jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. >> the jury was unable to come to a decision on the charge of first degree murder. >> retrying the case is something that we've all had to do. >> the prosecutor said she would retry the case on the outstanding charge. >> and we'll give it the same full attention. >> he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground proop. >> for the stand your ground law -- >> something that's become sort of a matter of confusion over this case. >> stand your ground. >> stand your ground, th

a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪ >>> one of the jurors in the murder trial of michael dunn her silence. the jury convicted dunn of three counts of second -degree murder for shooting into an suv carrying four black teenagers, but they could not agree on the murder charge stemming from the death of 17-year-old jordan davis. we sat down with the woman known as juror 8. >> i never once thought about this is a black kid and that is a white guy, because that is not the case. >> and so the people who say, here is another white guy who got away with shooting and killing a black kid, what would you tell them? >> i would tell them that they really should acknowledge themselves. >> reporter: she is setting the record straight. sg>> i wanted to bring justice whoever it was. >> reporter: the 21-year-old was juror 8 in the michael dunn m d murder trial, and she sat down exclusively with cnn and the case and the heated deliberations. what was it like inside of the deliberation room? >> it was wild. >> reporter: wild as? >> well, it was like shout iing and a lot of yelling. >> reporter: an

. >> you didn't think michael dunn had to kill jordan davis? >> i don't think so. >> stand your ground is part of the consciousness in florida and the other stand your ground states. >> even if we don't ever receive the verdict for jordan, he will still pay because he will spend the rest of his life in jail. and i feel sorry for him for that. >>> today, prosecutors announced that michael dunn will be retried for the first degree murder of jordan davis in may. and today, we heard from a second member of the jury, juror number eight, a 21-year-old who says she thinks michael dunn is a good guy, but she also thinks he is guilty of murder. >> i honestly think he was a good guy. i think he is a good guy. i don't think he hates everybody. i don't think he wants around wanting to shoot everybody. i think that he made a bad decision. >> the first juror to speak, juror number four, known only as valerie says race was not a factor in their deliberations. >> for a lot of folk in america, they would say white man shoots and kills a 17-year-old black boy. h

there's movement now on the michael dunn trial. the loud music trial down in florida in jacksonville, florida. back with our correspondents and our analysts right after a quick break. there's this kid. coach calls her a team player. she's kind of special. she makes the whole team better. he's the kind of player that puts the puck, horsehide, bullet. right where it needs to be. coach calls it logistics. he's a great passer. dependable. a winning team has to have one. somebody you can count on. somebody like my dad. this is my dad. somebody like my mom. my grandfather. i'm very pround of him. her. them. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense

michael dunn accused of killing a young african-american teenager over loud music. that is not how dunn tells it. he insists he was in fear for his life when he pulled a gun and pumped nine bullet holes into a teenager's suv. this weekend's dunn's fiance said dunn said quote i hate that thug music. good morning. >> it is possible the state could rest early this week. this was a working weekend for the jurors with key witnesses taking the stand. after a rare and emotional session in which the prosecution called michael dunn's fiance it testify. she was shaken as surveillance video from november 23, 2012 played in court. >> somebody is shooting. >> what did you hear? >> i heard pop, pop, pop. >> reporter: minutes earlier she and dunn stopped at a jacksonville gas station and parked next to a red suv with a group of teenagers inside. >> what did the defendant say? >> i hate that thug music. >> reporter: what unfolded next is at the crux of the case. dunn told investigators there was an argument over loud music and then said he heard threats, saw a weapon, took his gun o

>> michael dunn's state of mind in this trial is key. he's going to assert self-defense, meaning he was in reasonable fear for his life. and so the state, they're going to argue, no, he was just angry. he didn't shoot inside of this suv at these kids because he had to. he did it because he wanted to. he was angry. they were playing this thug music. he referred to them as thugs before that shooting ever happened. and they're saying that he reacted based on a bias that he had towards these kids, not because of fear for his life. >> lisa, that face there, john dunn, a very familiar case to anyone who followed the george zimmerman trial. you've got to wonder what sort of lessons the prosecution may have learned from that trial, the lessons that they might try and apply here. >> right, and that's what the entire first half of my book is about. in my opinion, the state of florida did a terrible job in the george zimmerman case. they missed the key evidence in the case. they argued the evidence that they had very inappropriately. they lost a wi

. >> i know you know i have forgiven michael dunn for taking your life. >> michael dunn says it was self-defense. >> this guy comes up with something. i thought it was a shotgun. >> police say they never found a gun. dunn expected to take the stand today. >> i went over this a million times. what i should have done is put the car in reverse. >> our coverage begins right now in the cnn newsroom. >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks for joining me. we start in jacksonville, florida in a courtroom where the loud music murder trial could go to the jury today. in a dramatic move, we could hear from michael dunn himself, the man who opened fire into a parked car blaring loud rap music. three of the bullets struck and killed 17-year-old jordan davis. dunn says he fired in self-defense leabelieving they e armed and threatening. jurors were told davis was leaning away from the shooter when he was killed. >> we know we're dealing with a horizontal track of the bullet. that happens by motion of the body. as you notice when i bend over t track becomes horizontal. that path of the liver and path of t

but let's start at the top of the hour here with the trial of michael dunn and the shooting death of florida teenager jordan davis. the trial is over. the jury's verdict means dunn will go to prison but not for killing jordan davis. a mistrial was declared on the most serious count, murder in the first degree. but dunn was convicted of three counts of attempted murder and a charge of firing into a vehicle. prosecutors hope to retrial davis, retry dunn, i should say, on the murder charge. now kerry sanders live outside the courthouse. what has the reaction been in jacksonville? >> reporter: well, those who believed that michael dunn was guilty are very upset and they don't understand how it is that after all of the presentation made to the jury that they could not conclude that he was guilty of first-degree murder. it appears according to analysts that looked at this because we have not heard from the jurors, that they were hung up on the issue of first degree or second degree. and the reason it appear this is they're hung up on the two is because they did find him guilty of aterveted

i'm don lemon and the jury is hung up on the murder trial of michael dunn.some questions, and i have spoken to many people here on cnn, but none more heartfelt than the trayvon martin family's attorney benjamin crump, and i was going to have you go and have dinner and come back to me when there is a verdict, and i think 245 what you said when we went to break is very, very important for the people in the country to understand. can you say it again. >> yes, don. it is very important to know how this system will break our hearts sometimes, and especially for trayvon martin's, and jordan martin's as well, but whatever the verdict is, we have to respect that whatever the killers in our the -- killers of our children is to maintain peace at all costs. that is what their parents would want, and trayvon would want and jordan davis would want and his parents. >> thank you, benjamin crump, and very emotional. thank you. we will see you when we get a verdict. >> thank you. >>> and i want to get to sunny hostin who is also down there in florida with the florida congre

and they are indeed a jury of michael dunn's peers. and even with that, even with maybe their biases that they may have as far as culture is concerned. maybe not connecting with jordan and his culture, but we can still have a society where we can depend on them and count on them to render a verdict based on the facts of the case and the witnesses that they hear and not on any biases that they have. so i'm elated that we have this time. i think it's something for the history books. i think it's something that our young people all across this nation should understand and view, that this is really great for our nation, that we can maybe have a start of having justice and making sure that justice is equal and we don't have to worry about the makeup of the jury. i joined the human rights network, and we go to different places around the country where there's violations of human rights and i know there's a lot of people that have been unable to attain the justice that me an lucy have for our son. so immediately i'll be going to valdosta, geo

. >> do you think michael dunn got away with murder? >> at this point, i do. >> the loud music murder trial for the first time the road to conviction. >> what convinced you? >> to me it was unnecessary. >> you didn't think michael dunn had to kill jordan davis? >> i don't believe so. >> outrage over the wisconsin national guard and this photo. >> to me it's just completely unacceptable. >> the caption reading we put the fun in funeral. this morning the fallout has begun. the american dream team. >> the idea that in four minutes you have to be on. >> rachel nichols one on one with ice dancers meryl davis and charlie white. >> as athletes we planned so much of our lives. we're trying to enjoy this moment. >> you're live in the cnn "newsroom". >>> good morning, i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin this morning with the long shadows of the cold war and new explosions of that era's bitter east versus west divisions. this is ukraine where thousands of americans live and more than 25 people died in escalating violence

even though michael dunn is almost certainly going to jail for the rest of his life. there was a sense of incompleteness about it. and i'll mention dunn seemed shocked. i really think he thought he was going to be acquitted of all charges. >> well, lisa bloom, dunn is a very strange person based on everything we've collected in the evidence so far. in his writings since he's been held awaiting trial he seems to have very strange reactions to things that happen around him, including when he's in parking lots in situations like he was in in this case. >> right. well, that's charitable, lawrence. i mean, i've read a lot of his jailhouse letters. he's very arrogant. he was quite confident that he was going to be acquitted in this case. he really had no doubt about it. he referred to african-americans as thugs and gangsters on a number of occasions. he said it would be great if more people would do what he did. and he said "the more i get to know those people," referring to african-americans, "the more prejudiced i become." i mean, this is a man who was really quite open ab

that is the issue, and did he represent a threat to michael dunn? they evaluated that and they were torn as to whether or not he was justified in shooting and killing him. that is going to represent a hung jury, but as paul said, he had a volley of the shots, and we heard throughout the course of the case, the surveillance tape, and you heard the surveillance tape, and the pop, pop, pop, and you heard it, additional shots. as to the other shots, there was a continuous course of conduct, but clearly some break there where the jury perhaps in the initial volley may or may not have been justified, but as to the second volley of shots, they did not apparently think that he was justified at all, and that what led to the attempted murder charges sticking and ultimately a declaration of guilt and to the firing into the car. >> and you to also look at the potential serious sentence that he will face under these laws. under florida law, because it is gun charges and very serious charges as i am calculating it, if the sentences are consecutively, there is a r

what is clear here is the fact that michael dunn shot and killed 17-year-old jordan davis in novembersues, one is this. were dunn's actions lawful and justified because he feared for his life? today it's been about the details and the friends of michael dun. family members. listen to the two exchanges with a witness, beverly berry. >> do you know or have a belief of his limitation for peacefulness? >> yes. >> what is that? >> never have i observed anything other than a very calm demeanor. >> at any of these special occasions did you play rap music? >> play rap music? >> yes, ma'am. >> no. >> were there young black teens at these special occasions? >> i object. i can approach. >> sure. >> joining me to discuss in jacksonville, let's begin with the witness who we saw most recently. 24-year-old chris dunn, son of michael dunn. it was his wedding. where the father had been the day before he drove to the gas station where he shot and killed a 17-year-old young man. what was the importance of that testimony today? >> the defense attorney tried to put this witness on the stand to give us the

i wonder if michael dunn thought he was in danger. that's why you have a hung jury because that's the last thing they negotiated whether he thought he was in danger. that's crazy because if i think that you are threatening me do i have a right to shoot you dead because i think you're threatening me. i think you have a gun. >> the scales of justice are a little tipped because the white business man gets the benefit of the doubt and the young black boy doesn't get the benefit of the doubt in a lot of people's minds. until we figure out how to balance those and show enough character evidence to show this wasn't some thug and michael dunn was a thug, then, you know, we might have a more fair trial. >> good to see you. thanks for stopping by. >>> we are also following some developing news in the ukraine. this is a live look at independence square in the capital, in kiev. there appears to be an end or a pause of the violence that's gripped that city for months and some calling a major break through opposition leaders signed a deal with the

this is the girlfriend now on the stand of michael dunn. that's michael dunn there.ess stand. let's listen to the testimony. >> i'm showing you state's exhibit number 2. do you recognize that to be an overview of the gas station? >> yes. >> looking at state's exhibit 2, can you tell the jury which entrance you used when you got to the gate gas station? do you remember? >> i just don't know how to tell you. >> you can touch the screen and make a mark on it. >> i think we went in this entrance. >> for the record, it's the turn off south side boulevard showing on the screen. >> if you put pressure on there, you can draw a line with your finger. there you go. >> good? >> now, when you pulled into the entrance or when the defendant did, did he then park the car? >> yes. >> what was the reason for stopping at the gas station? >> to get a bottle of wine. >> whose idea was it? >> mine. >> i'm showing you state's exhibit 5. is that then, just the front doors of the gas station you stopped at? >> yes. >> this is now state's exhibit 7. can you show on this screen where the defe

she has a conversation with michael dunn, her fiance.ere is how she said everything unfolded. >> when the defendant pulled into the parking spacings could you hear music coming from the red suv? >> yes. >> you could tell it was coming from that car? >> yes. >> from where you were sitting inside the car, could you hear the lyrics of the music? >> no, i couldn't make out the lyrics. >> could you tell what kind of music it was? >> yes, i could. >> could you hear the bass? >> yes. >> from inside the car, was anything in the car rattling in the bass? >> no. >> did the defendant say anything about the music when he parked the car next to the red car? >> yes. >> what did the defendant say? >> i hate that thug music. >> what was your response to the defendant? >> i said yes, i know. >> as you were walking to the register, did you hear anything unusual? >> yes. >> what did you hear? >> i heard pop, pop, pop. >> when you heard those noises, did you know what they were? >> no, i dnlt. >> did you know where they were coming from? >> no, i didn't. >>

the both sides of the emotionally charged of the loud music trial. >> last night the jury found michael dunn guilty but on the most serious charge the jury deadlocked. mistrial. but dunn is still facing a lot of time in prison. martin savage, the reaction on both sides? >> yeah, i mean last night the reaction outside of the courthouse here was immediate. primarily that it was focuseded squarely on 17 year old jordan davis. outside the courtroom different reactions. first from the parents of davis. >> listen to this. >> we are so grateful for the truth. we are so grateful that the j y juriers were so able to understand it all and we will stand and wait for justice for jordan. >> heart breaking to listen to the mother there. next up was the defense attorney. and he was talking about the reaction of his client michael dunn who seemed like he was in a state of shock. even when he sat next to me he said how is this happening. i said i'll talk to you in the back. i didn't want to comment in the courtroom. it has not set in. i don't think it will set in anytime soon. >> it is expected that sentenci

in light of the dunn case and the stand your ground case. >> if you had the chance to interview michael dunnlutely. the dunn verdict has created another stand your ground backlash. the hashtag sdang russ black kids materialized on twitter along with pictures. this one says, my son is clearly planning a robbery and shows a young boy drinking a root beer float and the picture of a baby with this underneath. he is getting aggressive, his temper is flaring and, my god, i feel fear. with me to talk about florida's stand your ground law, florida state representative, matt gates, a supporter of stand your ground and ahmad abu snided, co-founders of dream founders, a group opposed to stand your ground. thanks, gentlemen. >> ahmad, i want to start with you. the fact that this jury could not agree to convict mr. dunn on a first-degree murder? how does that affect those in florida? >> i don't think it had anything to do with the state of florida whether it was first-degree or second-degree. we are grieving. we are upset. we feel like that the justice system has let us down, because it was unable to pro

so now that michael dunn has a lawyer, he now has a story. told through his lawyer, that he thought he saw a shotgun in the car, and felt his life was threatened. but he didn't feel his life was threatened enough to call the police after being in a shootout with dangerous kids who had a shotgun, and were still on the loose, according to his story. a story that he and his lawyer surely will be rewriting as they approach trial. the police say the kids did not have a gun. the killer's lawyer has offered this clever counter to the police. how hard did they look? the lawyer says the kids could have thrown away their shotgun, even though they did not leave the scene, and they and their car were searched by the police. after michael dunn killed jordan davis, he behaved exactly the way a hitman would behave. he fled the scene like a guilty murderer. a guilty murderer who may have had a few too many drinks. last week, jordan davis was very excited about landing a job at mcdonald's. on friday night, his parents got the call that no parent can bear to e

michael dunn convicted of three counts of attempted murder. him guilty of murdering jordan davis. today dozens of davis supporters gathered in jacksonville to protest. we begin our coverage tonight with martin savage. >> we find the defendant guilty of attempted second degree murder. >> reporter: protesters gathered at the gas station where the shooting occurred. for a second time in six months they have seen an admitted killer not convicted for a black teen's death, first trayvon martin, now jordan davis. >> this little man here i love with all my life. i don't want him or no other black child to have to continue to go through this. it has to end and it has to be now. it has to come to an end now. >> reporter: not far away parked his suv hip hop blaring just as davis was doing. loud music has become a symbol of protest. like many in jacksonville think prosecutor failed the black community just as she did he says in the trial of george m zimmerman. >> you think she should resign? >> immediately. >> the night of the verdict protesters marched d

go to trayvon martin, this recent michael dunn verdicts. it shows very clearly that veneer of great florida, the palm trees and beaches is starting to erode away under a correction system that is misplaced and that puts people in adult prisons, young people in adult prisons. when we say florida never loved us, when we say america never loved us, it's quite clear to us, and it has been quite clear to us that we live in a state that doesn't care about us. and so it's important that when we lay out our case against a state of florida that the state of florida understands that we have a common understanding, that we live in a state that has caused our education system to hemorrhage. we arrest more kids and put them in adult prisons than any other state. and so when tourists come here and they go to disney world and see a place where dreams come true, that's basically the only place in florida where that happens. and so florida never loved us. america never loved us is our clear proclamation that we have an understanding that we live in a state

michael dunn, he killed one of the passengers, 17-year-old jordan davis. nn faces life in prison if he is convicted of murder. for much of the day today, dunn, as you see him, has been on the stand explaining to this jury why he feared for his life the night he shot jordan davis. >> it's painful. i asked for a coming courtesy, hey, could you turn that down, please. if they would have said f-you. we're not doing it, that's basically what they did. they turned it off and turned it back on. i wasn't going to ask them again. i was done. >> i asked them for a common courtesy. they gave it. i said thank you. that was the end of it. even when they turned it back on, that was the end of it. >> it was jordan davis who kept escalating this to the point i had no choice but to defend myself. it was life or death. >> i don't remember exactly what it say but it was something about shooting on the south side and showed a fatality. >> if they use the word fatality, you know ha that means? >> yes. >> can you tell the jury how you reacted when you saw that on your phone? >>

michael dunn charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old jordan davis. dunn says he acted in self-defense after the teen threatened him. the jury reconvened this morning arounden 9:00 a.m. eastern time, and just about 30 minutes later actually had questions for the judge. >> the first question -- is the defense of self-defense separate for each person in each count? the answer is, yes. second question -- are we determining if deadly force is justified against each person in each count? the answer is, yes. the third question -- or if we determine deadly force is justified against one person, is it justified against the others? no. self-defense and justifiable use of deadly force applies separately to each count. >>> i'm joined now by cnn legal analyst paul callan. so, paul, good to see you. you know, you're a criminal defense attorney and a former prosecutor. try to get into the minds of those representatives on each side. what might they be thinking as they hear these kinds of questions coming from the jurors? >> well, you know, i think most lawyers watc

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the only person who ever said that he saw one was that of the accused here, michael dunn.pistol, ten shots into a car, several of which actually hit the victim here and killed him. and so the community is wanting to know, you know, is there in their sense sort of an unarmed -- i mean an open season on just if you feel threatened, you can take a gun and shoot, even at a car where, again, the police found no weapon and no evidence of a weapon. there have been some protesters outside. they have been out here for some time. but more i would say people are just watching it very closely through the internet, through twitter and of course right here on cable television to see if they can determine what the jury verdict is going to be and if it sits well with their perspective of what they think they know about this case, richard. >> kerry, thank you so much. nbc's kerry sanders with the very latest from jacksonville, florida. >>> take you now to an accident on the bobsled run that leaves an olympic worker injured. that tops our look at stories around the news nation. the worker w

. >> what did you think of michael dunn? >> an exclusive one on one with juror number 8. >> do you feel like you messed up, do you feel like the jury messed up? >> no. i feel like we did what we supposed to. >> new details, insights from one of the african-americans on the jury. >> what would you tell jordan's family? >> i would tell them that from my end i tried. i really did try. >>> also, dangerous storms track east. >> i am 46 years old, i have never had a winter like this. >> lightning, tornadoes, flooding. >> first hour was rain, then next half hour was sleet and snow, then just all wet snow. so it has been everything. >> it is the winter that will not let up. >>> plus a wolf. in sheep's clothing. >> we shot the video. and kate hanson posted it for us. >> jimmy kimmel and the big fake that's now got the attention of the russians. >> i start hearing people talk around the building, and security starts freaking out. >>> and green for the green. >> it just exceeded all of my expectations. >> colorado bank rolling marijuan

with how it all unfolded. >> reporter: after about 30 hours of dleliberations, the juy in the michael dunntrial returned a partial verdict. >> your dunn, your having been convicted of counts two, three and four by a jury -- >> reporter: guilty on four counts, including three of attempted second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting outside a jacksonville gas station that killed 17-year-old jordan davis. but on the murder charge, no verdict. >> based on the jury's inability to reach a verdict as to count one, i will declare that

>> the second trial they were really going after michael dunn shooting. if you recall, he left the scene. prosecutors say, guilty people leave the scene. not guilty people wait and help law enforcement. >> this was also a matter of choice. there was a conviction in the first trial, not for murder 1 but in this case, why did the prosecutor and in indeed the family want to continue for second trial, when they could have gotten the same result? >> do you this so you guarantees not something coming up on appeal, that quintessential first degree murder, in the first trial they were deadlocked on that charge. in this trial they cake came at it and focused and were able to get it. >> "america tonight" sarah hoye, thank you. >>> another case of unarmed black man being shot and killed by police, john crawford, shot and killed in a walmart, after having a beebee gun. an in-depth look into that shooting from "america tonight's" christof putzel. >> what is your emergency. walmart. there is a gentleman with a gun in the store. >> has he got it pulled out? >> yeah, he'

loud music was on the radio. 45-year-old michael dunn pulled into the parking spot next to them.st attending his son's wedding reception with his girlfriend ron da and as she went inside he said he politely turn down the music down. >> michael dunn concedes as much in a later interrogation. >> and then it comes back on and i'm like you know i don't need any trouble. >> but there was trouble. police say what followed was a verbal altercation between dunn in his car and the teens sitting in theirs. >> michael dunn said it was one of the teens trying to threaten and kill him. >> i put my window down again and i said exkecuse me are you talking about me? and he said kill that [ bleep ] pitch. and i'm still not reacting and then this guy goes down on the ground and comes up with something and i thought it was a shotgun and he goes you are dead. and he opens his door. and [ bleep ] bricks. and that is when i reached in my glove box and unholstered my miss ton. he opened fire and then he sped away. the only person hit, he spent the night at a local hotel before driving the 159 miles to

michael dunn is charged with first degree murder for jordan davis' death.so charged with three counts of attempted murder for the three other passengers in the car. joining me now are larry hannan, a court reporter for the florida times union. he's been in the courtroom every day of the dunn trial. and mark thompson, host of "make it plain" on sirius xm radio. larry, was there anything that you could read in jury reaction to the testimony, the direct testimony of the -- from the witnesses, the kids in the car and that -- and the defendant taking the stand himself? >> lawrence, the jurors were really raptly listening to dunn throughout his testimony. it was a struggle to figure out what they thought they were watching. i saw a juror shake her head in disgust. it was after the fiancee left that they basically turned on dunn. she contradicted a lot of what dunn said on the stand. >> the key point being that he in the testimony, it emerges that he never told the girlfriend that jordan davis had a gun. he never said that to her with plenty of opportunities to do

. >> prosecution rests in the trial of michael dunn.black teenager was unarmed and killed over playing loud music. this was a dramatic ending to the state's case this morning. prosecutors brought out the shirt, boxers with gunshot holes clearly visible. these shots according to the prosecution were premeditated. they said dunn deliberately had to put six pounds of pressure every time he fired one of the shots. the defense brought forth their own witnesses. family and friends who claim dunn is not a violent man. >> are you aware of mr. dunn as reputation for peacefulness? >> yes. very nice guy. >> never have i observed anything other than a very calm demeanor. >> i always thought he was a gentleman. >> similar words are also being used to describe davis, a young man we still know little about. trayvon became a household name. our martin savage is out front with more. >> reporter: sitting in her son's bedroom she reads from a journal she started soon after 17-year-old jordan davis was killed. >> every where i turn jordan i see you. i keep

if michael dunn takes the witness stand the state can use those statements to cross examine him.nnot put those statements forth himself in lieu of him testifying. >> let me play another interrogation, michael dunn, the man charged with killing this young man, describes how things in his words began to get agitated and heated up. let's listen in. >> i don't know if they're singing or what, but it's like -- they're saying kill him. so i put my window down again. and i said, excuse me? are you talking about me? and it was like kill that [ bleep ]. and i'm still not reacting but this guy like goes down on the ground and comes up with something. i thought it was a shotgun. >> faith, he thought it was a shotgun, he says. there was never a gun found there. >> right. and that's going to be problematic for him. there was no shotgun found. there was nothing even resembling a shot gone found. i mentioned yesterday there was not a water gun, bb gun, nothing in that vehicle those kids could have held up and said -- where he could have said it's a shotgun. thinking that you see a gun and there

and we're here to help start yours. >>> the florida judge presiding over the trial of michael dunn, the accused of killing an unarmed teenager is allowing journalists inside the courtroom today. but now the court is facing yet another legal hurdle, this time over phone calls dunn made while behind bars. journalists covering the trial are going before a magistrate today arguing recordings of dunn's calls should be released before opening arguments get under way. an appellate court has already agreed with them, but the state's attorney's office is pushing back saying it could take several weeks to review the recordings and remove personal information like social security numbers. they also want to charge more than $6,000 for the calls. meanwhile, jury selection wrapping up, opening statements could begin by the end of the week. dunn is charged with first agree murder in 17-year-old jordan davis' death. the two allegedly got finto a dispute over loud music. dunn maintains he was acting in self-defense. larry, thanks for joining us again. let move forwa let's move forward to the letters. th

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again, michael dunn, tonight, will be in a jail here. he has been convicted on three counts of attempted murder. lester? >> cary sanders in jacksonville with that for us tonight, thank you. >>> when "nbc nightly news" continues this saturday, we take to you hockeytown usa, where they claim to be a breeding ground for olympic gold. >>> and later, they're back, the legendary bobsled team makes a triumphant return. >>> usa! usa! usa! >> we're back now at the sochi olympics, we heard a lot of that today, by far the highlight of the day has been team usa's dramatic victory over the russians in men's hockey, and probably nowhere in america is there a bigger celebration than in the tiny town where two members of the u.s. team are from, including the hero of today's game. here is nbc's kevin tibbles. >> reporter: warroad, minnesota, and its 1700 hearty citizens. so close to the canadian border that you could walk it. but not today, it is minus 18. ♪ much warmer inside warroad's arena which just happens to hold about 1700 people as the hometown w

michael dunn faces life in prison without parole.dan davis' parents said today's verdict is justice for their son. >> we know that jordan's life and legacy will live on for others. but at the same time, we're very saddened by the life that michael dunn will continue to live. we are saddened for his family and for his friends and the community that will continue to suffer by his actions. but we are very grateful that justice has been served. justice not only for jordan but justice for trayvon and justice for all the nameless faces and children and people that will never have a voice. >> i wanted jacksonville to be a shining example that you could have a jury made up of mostly white people, white men, to be an example to the rest of the world to stop the discriminatory practices, stop discriminating, stop looking where we have to look at juries and say what the makeup of juries are. i want to give my heart and my prayers to all the mothers and fathers out there that have lost children. that got no justice. >> joining now the host of "t