darryl parks, you heard what mark o'mara had to say there, pretty scathing about ben crump your colleague, tell me your reaction. >> well, i think mark o'mara has made a decision to come after my law partner for whatever reason. the truth of the matter is, mr. o'mara and the rest of the world must understand that at a time when no one else was given justice to the martin family, my law partner was the guy who took on this crusade to get justice for trayvon martin. when the police refused to arrest him, he was the one person that believed in moving forward to try to get justice in this case, so he may not have an appreciation for it, but at least there was enough evidence there that we needed to have him arrested and have the trial we're having now. he may not have an appreciation for it at all, this is how we got to justice. >> let's turn to some of the key things that came out today. particularly the late revelation in the day that trayvon martin's toxicology report will be made public in court, which will include the fact that he had cannibis in his system, albeit a small amount of cann

joining me now is darryl parks, the earn r attorney for trayvon martin's family.ll with me is former police detective darryl williams. all right. you had a chance to see that video, how do you respond to it? i assume you are going to take issue with many of the things that george zimmerman's friend said. >> yes, judge. several issues. first, there is no evidence of any blood was found on the sidewalk from where frank cappy alleges that we talk about the reenactment, he talks about the gun on the rear part of his waistband. >> darryl, i'm going to interrupt you, hang on one second. i want to get to the gun. i want to ask you a question. how do you think zimmerman got those injuries to the back of his head? because, clearly, he had injuries. what do you think happened there? >> well, i think several things happened. number one, we know that they were involved in a very, very aggressive interaction. tussleing, wrestling. maybe some fists to head combat. maybe at some point they did touch the concrete. however, they have tried to build a theory there was some bad grou

darryl parks is an attorney for trayvon martin's family and he joins us now. mr.s for being on the show. earlier today there were thoughts that the prosecution would call sybrina fulton to testify. do you expect she will take the stand when the court resumes on friday? >> anderson, there is a strong possibility that she will take the stand. >> what about trayvon martin's brother. there are some who expect maybe he would be asked to testify as well. >> there is a very strong possibility he will testify. >> how important to the prosecution's case do you think their testimony is in terms of identifying whose voice it is on that 911 call? >> well, if they called him to the stand i would assume that it is very important to their case, however, i'm not the lawyer trying the case so i would have to defer to their case, so they expect to get very strong testimony from them in this case. >> the state presented evidence about zimmerman's past and about his education and course work. when i spoke to mark o'meara yesterday he said he believes that opens the door for more disc

i spoke to martin family attorney darryl parks, ben crump's law partner, also an attorney for trayvonartin's parents. >> i want to start off with this interview mark o'mara gave to martin savidge. he accuses him of smearing zimmerman and without his actions zimmerman never would have been charged. how do you respond? >> let's take our time and go through. i think it's very important. remember, and i remember when ben first came back to our firm, this guy had killed trayvon martin and the sanford police department were getting ready to close their investigation, and they indicated that they were not going to arrest this guy. and we believe wholeheartedly that if you kill an unarmed teenager, you at a minimum ought to be arrested. now, mr. o'mara may have philosophical problems with that, but in our business we're civil rights lawyers, and when someone kills someone who is unarmed, that person should go into our justice system and go through that process. that is not a decision that should be made by one or two people. it's a decision that should be made by the process, and that's what

. >> darryl parks, the lawyer for trayvon martin's family. he joins us. nice to see you, darryl. >> good evening. very tough for parents in a case like this for any set of parents when their son has been shot. i'm curious, how do they think the trial is going from the prosecution's perspective, many people watching and thinking that the prosecution's got a tough haul ahead of them. >> greta, we've always believed from the beginning that this was not a tough case. have you seen in our system plenty of cases with less evidence where people go to jail. this is just a case that got attention, where the defendant has mounted a hefty defense to try to get from under the evidence in this case. well, fortunately there's plenty of evidence in this case that people really believe that george zimmerman is guilty. so we remain encouraged, it's been tough for them, you may have noticed today. i did take them out of the courtroom some, because they're getting pretty tired at this point, they've been there every day, it's sitting there every day under the cameras with al

i spoke to martin family attorney darryl parks, ben crump's law partner, also an attorney for trayvon martin's parents. >> i want to start off with this interview mark o'mara gave to martin savidge. he accuses him of smearing zimmerman and without his actions zimmerman never would have been charged. how do you respond? >> let's take our time and go through. i think it's very important. remember, and i remember when ben first came back to our firm, this guy had killed trayvon martin and the sanford police department were getting ready to close their investigation, and they indicated that they were not going to arrest this guy. and we believe wholeheartedly that if you kill an unarmed teenager, you at a minimum ought to be arrested. now, mr. o'mara may have philosophical problems with that, but in our business we're civil rights lawyers, and when someone kills someone who is unarmed, that person should go into our justice system and go through that process. that is not a decision that should be made by one or two people. it's a decision that should be made by the process, and that's wha

sybrina fulton, trayvon martin's mother, left the courtroom with attorney darryl parks, an attorney foramily. after dr. bao really started to get into graphic testimony about the bullet wound, about exactly how trayvon martin died. we know first of all he says the bullet went into the right side of his chest. there was an entry wound but no exit wound. dr. bao said he can give zero opinion on the position of trayvon martin during that struggle when the shot was fired, but he also indicated that martin was likely still alive for one to ten minutes after the bullet was shot. fired into his chest. that was really difficult, you could tell, for the family. >> very difficult, very powerful, very critical as well. george howell, stand by if you will. live with me in sanford, florida, has been watching from the beginning of the case as well, last year in february when it happened. the significance of dr. bao cannot be lost. what he said today was so critical for the jury. >> to me the big issue is he doesn't believe trayvon martin could move after he was shot. we still have the unanswered ques

joining us from orlando one of the attorneys forth family darryl parks. first of all, counselor, do you believe this was a fair trial? >> well, bill, i don't want to second-guess this jury. however, i believe that their decision is not socially logical, to be honest with you. that's why we see the outcry that we're seeing today. >> bill: what about the evidence though? i don't know if decisions of this magnitude should be based on social perceptions. the evidence according to the jury and one of the jurors spoke out today and said it was the 911 tape that five out of the six jurors believed on the 911 call it was zimmerman's voice asking for help fee out of the six believed that and one didn't know. let's keep it in the evidence schaeffer -- evidentiary area. do you believe the evidence was present to the jury fairly. >> i believe most of the presentation was fair. i really don't want to second guess the prosecution team i don't think that's proper to do at least from my position. the main part was the self-defense of the who is yelling is immaterial in t

their lawyer, darryl parks joins us now. >> thank you for having me. >> always on the other side of theases doing defense. thinking the family of the victim, how tough it is in the courtroom. do they feel hostile toward george zimmerman? what is the feeling? >> obviously, there is no leave and probably built the volume that for the fact of attempts to apologize half hearted. we tried in the courtroom, what he said on the "hannity" show. didn't seem to be very contrite. didn't seem to be very sincere. you get a person like that, taken your child's life, and for the general public it may seem to be impersonal, like you forget it's real. you hear tracy martin say trayvon was his best friend, that's very real. when i see sybrina having a tough moment, when it's going through her whole body, the pain she's feeling from the loss, that's very real and see the guy that caused all that pain walk past you as if he's just having a lovely day, right? goes to the core. and the heart of all of this is that emotion, and you have to always remember that, because i think people really lose sight of that

. >>> joining me now is the attorney for trayvon martin's family, darryl parks, welcome. >> good morning. >> trayvon's parents were not in the courtroom when the verdict was read. did they expect it was not going to go their way? and when you told them what the verdict was, what was their reaction? >> number one, we, as counsel, suggested they probably shouldn't be there. we know them extremely well and made the decision that they should probably go on home to miami so they could be in church this morning and they are in miami this morning for that. now, when i did reach out -- because this decision is really unbelievable. i mean, how can you not hold an armed man who killed an unarmed kid responsible for the death? and so it's just ideologically not right for that to happen. >> how do you explain the verdict? obviously, these jurors sat in that courtroom for three week, heard all the evidence from the prosecution, all the evidence from the defense. how do you explain the jury's verdict? >> it's hard to explain. in the course of the trial that lasted a couple of weeks, so many different

keep in mind, you had two different lawyers in ben crump and darryl parks who went out when nobody wantedh this case, they went out and sought social justice. they were not social engineers. the social engineers thing, i don't know the definition of it, and i don't think it has anything to do with the jury. we have to respect what the jury did. >> the attorney general of the united states said today, in this country, you have a duty to retreat. i have gone to the jury instructions in florida, and it says in part that the defendant had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand its ground. then i go to the federal jury instructions for reference -- i've gone to other states. you think that the attorney general would know this, the law -- another jury instruction. the law recognizes the right of a person who is not the aggressor to stand his grounds. this is fundamental basic self-defense, and now we've got this whole sort of thing swarming around as though stand your ground is something, anything different than old fashioned self-defense. your thoughts? >> right, right, many, many state

. >> darryl parks, appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >>> a few moments ago, you heard mark o'mara say a lesser charge is not appropriate. we've been debating the issue allno night. the question is, does his reason for posing it make any legal sense? i'll talk to the panel about his justification, next. [ thunder crashes ] [ female announcer ] some people like to pretend a flood could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. enjoy the whole family at a homewood suites, schedule a 5 o'clock meeting at a hilton garden inn, or hit the links at a waldorf astoria. get great rates at our ten top hotel brands during the great getaway. book now at hiltongreatgetaways.com. >>> welcome back. before the defense rested today, a former neighbor of george zimmerman's took the stand and talked about being the target of a home invasion. this happened about six mon

you had on your show last week a defense or an attorney for the family darryl parks and he made that important distinction. but this case was about criminal profiling and not about racial profiling and i think some people were concerned that obama was conflating that. >> and i think the other thing, too, is the president also is making a, seemed to be making a distinction at the start of the speech, we have all the particular issues and the legal that the jury was confronted with. part of what he was saying is that i want all of america to understand why some of america took this verdict so personally and i think he was trying to convey that, too. >> at this late day, who are you trying to persuade? is there anyone out there who doesn't recognize that there is a great deal of racial profiling that are going on that black men and young boys are viewed with suspicion, that there is still a tremendous amount of racial discrimination in this country. anyone is not going to be persuaded by a comment or a conversation or a speech. so, you know, who are we trying to convince? >> well, that

i talked to darryl parks about that.e's an attorney who represents trayvon martin's family, to get his opinion about how that plays out in court listen. >> we heard from many people the other day, talking about george zimmerman, almost character witnesses. what does this do in light of that to trayvon martin? >> they weren't almost character witnesses, they were character witnesses. we sat there and listened to the vietnam veteran, make us relive the vietnam war in court the other day. and all he did and used that to bolster the situation. we've heard all type of witnesses that have bolstered the character. so i think your insinuation that it was a somewhat character -- no, it was. i think you're right on point. and most people saw it as that. >> reporter: so wolf, right now, we just watch and wait to see what happens with this particular ruling. as you mentioned, the judge wants to get this process moving. she's got a jury waiting to hear more testimony. the defense wants to make their case over the next several days, s

darryl parks, an attorney for trayvon martin's family, will join us live. >>> we know that reality tvse is astounding. cast members were caught on camera saying racist and homophobic slurs. the question is, should the show profit from bigotry? >> provocative question. but we want to begin this hour with our "new day" exclusive. three remarkable young women were silenced for more than a decade, held captive and tortured in a cleveland home, horrific situation, one described as going to hell and back. this morning they are breaking that silence for the first time, posting a video that may be the first small step to reclaiming their lives. pamela brown is here with details. we've been waiting to hear from them and it's so good to hear from them. >> we have. after covering the story the last couple months, it's good to see the women doing well. this is really the first time we're seeing and hearing from all three of them since they went missing more than ten years ago. in a four-minute youtube video, amanda berry, gina dejesus and michelle knight are speaking for the first time to say sim