bruce lashan is live outside the courtroom in charlottesville. bruce. reporter: yeah, j.c., this is really a small town in the middle of a sensational national meurd. it is definitely starting to show a lot of the potential jurors have already made up their minds that george hugley, v is guilty of the brutal murder of yardley love. hugly was let in, the former la crosse player, lumbered into the courtroom. sheriff's deputies have strapped heavy weights around his ankles to slow him down if he tries to escape. hugly's family sits right behind him on one side of the courtroom, but he doesn't even seem to look at his parents. victim yardley love's family sits on the other side of the courtroom, many of them wearing pink scarves or pink coats. one potential juror turned up wearing a pink scarf too. the judge dismissed her. another juror was almost in tear as she talked about her own daughter who is almost the same age as yardley love. she says she really felt connected to the victim. she was dismissed as well. the judge has dismissed 10 of the 15 potential

bruce lashan has been covering this trial from the very beginning. he now joins us live from charlottesville with more. bruce. reporter: hey, jc, the prosecutor moving very fast at this point. we've had a whole bunch of really interesting witnesses against george huguely this morning. one of them was a woman named caitlin taylor. she was george huguely's downstairs neighbor and she testified that she was sleeping about the time of yeardley love's death when she heard a banging on her door. her cousin opened the door, looked out, there was george huguely. she told them to go away and then she heard banging on the widz, looked out through the slats and there was george huguely. again, this was right around the time that yeardley love died. now, the day before apparently huguely had apparently also exchanged some racy, provacative e-mails with caitlin taylor, even though they had never had that kind of a relationship. the public, the media could not see what those texts said. they sounded embarrassing. they were facing just the jury and taylor told them

bruce lashan live in charlottesville, virginia. tell us what prosecutors and defense attorneys had to say in their closings. bruce. reporter: hey, bruce. huguely's lawyer, fran lawrence is delivering kind of a rambling disjointed closing argument in the courthouse right now. he said huguely is what you get. he's a boy athlete, not stealthful, not calculating, just stupid drunk. whatever he did, he never meant to kill yeardley. huguely's lawyers ended their expert witnesses with a chevy chase neurosurgeon who told jurors this wasn't even murder. >> oxygen deprivation. reporter: she suffocated. >> that's all i can say. reporter: not blunt force trauma? >>> that's all i can tell you. reporter: prosecutor dave chapman came back with a ferocious and empassioned closing argument. he was crying to jurors as he described the terror yeardley love must have felt when her sometimes boyfriend broke through her door. yeardley told police she was freaking out. you bet she was freaking out chapman told jurors, freaking out at what had come through

bruce lashan has been following the trial from the beginning. he joins us live from charlottesville with the latest information. bruce. reporter: jc, i'll tell ya what, an incredible amount of stress and tension for george huguely, clearly for george huguely's family, they are here for yeardley love's family, they are here as well. the jury right now deliberating the fate. we've already lost one young life, the question is whether george huguely's young life will be spent, the evident of it, in prison. the jury started about 9:30 this morning. they were at it -- they've been at it now about 2 1/2 hours. at about the hour and a half mark they came out and asked the judge one question. they wanted to know the definition of reason. we don't know specifically how that relates to the charges against him. we can only assume it goes to this question of malice, whether he it mal ace aforethought and -- malice aforethought and whether he was acting with a reasonable mind. i have been in the overflow courtroom so i can come out and bring you the later on t

bruce lashan reports this was not a wholesale eviction today. this were out to reclaim general mcpherson's statue. >> is there a law? there's no justification. reporter: and clear the the square of sleeping bags and that violates the no camping in d.c. regulation. >> this doesn't look like a national park service. reporter: the protesters knew it was coming. >> officers, keep it peaceful. >> i would ask you kindly to move back. reporter: house republicans had criticized the park service for carving out what they called a special exemption for occupy protesters. >> we are occupy. [ chanting ] reporter: still the protesters were plenty angry. >> [ bleep ] >> we are not closing the entire park. no one is being evicted from here. >> if they want to take sleeping bags and pillows, i think people are intent enough on this movement that they would sleep in the cold, they would sleep naked. reporter: after an hour and a half of negotiation -- >> mic check. >> thank you. reporter: the protesters themselves removed the giant tarp, the so-called tent of dr