mark o'mara when it was all done, reverend sharpton had immediate availability on behalf of the family of descendant. he said something of interest i want to play for you and everybody else. >> let the word go forth all over the world that a jury of 11 whites and one black in the deep south stood up in the courtroom and said that black lives do matter. let it be clear that almost ten years after trayvon, marcus' son to prove that if we kept marching and kept fighting we would make you hear us. >> you heard reference to trayvon martin. what parallels between that case in which you were involved and this case today? >> well look, from 10,000 feet up there are a lot of similarities. let's look at it a. black guy running through a neighborhood, maybe a whitish kind of neighborhood in the zimmerman case here, tracked down or watched by somebody and eventually shot. when you look at it that way, i understand the analysis. also it looks back then justice wasn't served and it finally did here. not to redefend george zimmerman from almost a decade ago, when you look at the facts, themselves, th

let's bring in marilyn mosby and mark o'mara now. has a chance of getting any of the defendants off on some if not all of these charges? >> yes, i do for a couple of reasons. geography matters in a case like this. this case is being tried in brunswick, georgia, there is a skew in favor of the defense as far as the racial makeup of the panel, and more importantly, you've got roddie bryan who i thought give credit where it's due with his attorney did a pretty good job of showing him to be sort of a dolt who really didn't do all that much wrong. so that's going to be a difficult for the state. i even suggested i wasn't sure why the state didn't keep roddie out of this trial. but and dad mcmichael as well, you got to look at him and say, yes, he was certainly part of the chase team, right, and that brings him into it. that principle theory we have, but we said it way in the beginning when we first talked about this case, chris, travis was going to say that when ahmaud arbery took that left-hand turn maybe responding to words we've never

. >> joining us now, former prosecutor and defense attorney for george zimmerman, mark o'mara.he jury will return to deliberations in a few hours. we will watch that closely. that was an interesting interview, where he was pressed on one of the most glaring parts of this trial where he repeatedly tried to get these pastors removed from the courtroom because of their race. talk to me about that over the course of the trial >> roddy didn't know about the gun, that's all great. that's good defense lawyering. but he cannot act -- it's the presentation. he cannot act in ignorance of the reality of what's going on around him. one of the first things he said when he first sort of made these presentations and these motions for mistrial. when he talked about reverend sharpton being in the courtroom, my ears perked up because it was so unusual. and then he doubled down the next day. i would like to think it is just an inexperienced person or lawyer not doing it the right way. but we can give him cover for one of those. when he does it again the second day, the third day. when he's the on

want it to bring in criminal defense attorney mark o'mara, defended george zimmerman. what do you make of the motions for a mistrial some. >> this most recent one should not be granted. it's an interesting issue because of this compression and, therefore, degrading of the evidence. but the saving grace for the prosecution, i think, is the one that was shown to the jury is the proper one. that's the one that's in evidence. and although the defense has an argument to say, wait a minute, it was fuzzy and we couldn't present our defense with the more precise video. it is so minor in relation to most everything else that was presented, the judge should not grant the mistrial on this one. >> what about the -- what we heard from the jury? the questions the jury had today? >> interesting, that they are thinking it through. we want them to spend their time on it. you know, they are looking at these videos. we know that when they must be struggling with after two days of deliberations is, no question, he killed two people. the question is did he provoke it by walking around sort

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. >> one thing mark o'mara told us is he believes the prosecution might be saying the same thing in theury. the prosecutor has consistently made choices not to make this as much about race. >> exactly. and what you have here is a 12-member jury with 11 white people and one black man. and my understanding is that in glynn county, the community is approximately 27% black. and so you have already a jury pool that the jurors were drawn from that is underrepresentative. once you had jury selection, the judge admit that he believed it was involved in racial vi discrimination but would allow the jury to be seated. the prosecution is from cobb county, another area of georgia, that seated the people before him. they're thinking what kind of case can i put on? they avoided discussing race until closing arguments. they didn't make any characterization that the defendants viewed ahmaud as inherently dangerous and inherently criminal, even though that clearly isn't a case that the prosecution made. >> you know, john, from the outset of this trial, i was the one who said race was the 13th juror in th

mark o'mara is a criminal defense attorney, paul, and e lee elie honig a former prosecutor.now you have listened in on all of the developments since the verdicts were read. your thoughts. >> the defense attorney had an interesting press conference after the case. as defense attorneys we have to deal with the facts of the case despite what the media may be reporting, what the streets may say or the neighbors may say, and the prosecution had a very tough case in this particular one. when a person raises a self-defense claim, the prosecution has to prove that it's not self-defense, and when rittenhouse and the video, rittenhouse testified and the video was shown t made it extremely tough on them, especially when the witness said he pointed a gun to rittenhouse, and that's when rittenhouse started reacting, it made it very very difficult. and another thing to point out that was interesting to me in reference to the defense, this was a very well funded defense. they had two mock juries. they had jury consultants. they had enough money to really work hard to build rittenhouse's ca

coleman junior a civil rights attorney and mark o'mara. i'm glad you're both here. thank you for being here to help us understand better what is at stake here. to pick up where elliott left off, this idea of race being really the big elephant in the room and not just a silent one here, it wasn't brought out the same way it was talked about in the court of public opinion. mark, we've heard really jaw dropping things in this trial from the defense. they spoke to the defense attorneys who still, still see nothing wrong with his push to keep black pastors out of the courtroom. listen to this. >> i'm here representing roddie bryan and i'm going to defend my client to the best of my ability and i don't care whether the people in the cheap seats like it or not. >> all right. your reaction, mark, from the cheap seats. >> i'm so astounded and troubled and worried by all of the presentation particularly from this one attorney from the shocking comment to the jackson comment to reverend jackson to black pastors generally and he was the one also who said that this trial, the da

and we're going to answer the key legal questions with mark o'mara, he defended george zimmerman in the trayvon case. take us inside the room for your experience. everybody is aware, everyone's watching. this is heavy. there's a lot of political overtones. there's a huge set of instructions. one day in, what was it like in that room? >> i think the first day is always about all the jurors getting their thoughts out. they've held all this information in for the entire trial. they haven't been able to talk about it or tell anybody about it. now it's their chance to go over the points they thought were key, the evidence that they thought was key, and just get their thoughts out. i'm pretty sure they spent most of today going over what they thought of all the evidence, what they thought of rittenhouse taking the stand and the defense and prosecution's case. >> that takes that long to hear everybody vent where they are and where they're not. and then do you remember with your situation, the instructions, were the instructions an issue? >> the instructions are tough a little bit. i think with

us now to discuss, cnn legal analyst elie honig, criminal defense attorney and form prosecutor, mark o'maraelie, what jumped out at you today. >> the theme of the argument that we heard from greg mcmichael's lawyer, what did my guy do, he pulled no trigger, and i think she's trying to drive home to the jury, my guy did not pull the trigger. he was standing in the bed of the truck at the time. forget about him. >> he was chasing ahmaud arbery down the street. >> and look for the prosecutor to come back on rebuttal, if they had anything to do with this, if they promoted this, if they were part of it, if they encouraged it, legally they are all liable. t that's the battleground to watch later. >> one of the things the prosecutor pointed out, how can you claim self-defense if you have been chasing the victim for five minutes while he is running away from you. so here's that moment. >> that's travis mcmichael pulling that shotgun out. what are they going to tell you? they're going to tell you, oh, he was running towards me, and i could tell he was going to attack me. is that reasonable? who brou