judge sarah hoy is covering this case. >> is michael dunn going to take the stand?and if you know with the zimmerman trial, george zimmerman did not take the stand and that was something athat took a lot of people by surprise and others dit not. it is something to think about, do you take the stand in your defense? we don't know if that is going to happen. >> the other comparison that is going to have to be made is the emotionally response that trayvon martin's case drew. you remember you were there, after trayvon martin's case was in trial, it was as though a crowd was on the scene every single minute. >> you are absolutely right. there are mmps, there were people -- there were march, it had recommend planned of o.j. simpson trial. people were talking about it at their homes, the barber shop, wherever it was. it often seems like the general public was defeated, trayvon martin was a disappointment, president obama addressed the nation about this, what is going to ham on this? >> the stand your ground law was passed in florida almost ten years ago. of the 237 cases,

america's tonight, sarah hoy, thank you. >>> a closer look at this event, criminal defense attorney andormer prosecute ken padowitz who jives us from dafshing, florida. we appreciate you being with us this evening. i know you were following the developments through the closing today. can you give us an idea where you think this is going? >> absolutely. i thought it was a very, very good case for the prosecution. the reason is just to get right to the point is rarely do you have in a trial a window right in to the head of the defendant and what he was thinking. and we have that window in this case. and that window is after firing not once, not five times, but 10 times at a vehicle as it was pulling away as well, as he is driving away with his fiance, he never tells her, his fiance that there was, in fact, a we hope in the car and that's why he had to fire his gun. >> is huge. >> that's a window into this man's mind at the time of this shooting. >> sarah hoy and i were just talking about the presence or absence of any sort of weapon in the car that the teenagers were riding in. does it ma

for new york's brand-new mayor who promised to take action, in our in depth crime and punish many, sarah hoy says he takes the first step to doing it. >> i'm across the street and the officers say hey you, come over here. on the one hand, this is like another day but like on that day man like i'm teaching i'm like a professional. i'm on lunch break. a guy can't work? >> mallit clarkson was on lunch when he was stopped by police officers. he was teaching second grade in the bronx and had just left this corner store when the officers stopped him. >> my young story isn't any different than any other young man who grows up in the street. >> stop and frisk, a practice where police officers stop and question them. wanted to know if he was carrying anything illegal. he says it is not uncommon getting stopped. >> i've been stopped and frisked since i was 13. it becomes a normalized part of your life like you expect it to happen. >> in 2008 clarkson was one of several plaintiffs who filed a class action action against new york for discriminatory stop and frisks. under law, the officer can stop a pers

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. >> sarah hoy and i were just talking about the presence or absence of any sort of weapon in the carhat the teenagers were riding in. does it matter to the stand-your-ground defense whether there really was a weapon or not, whether it was a gun or a baton or anything else? >> no. actually, it doesn't. unfortunately, the way the law reads in florida, as long as the individu individual, here the defendant, reasonably believed his life was in danger, then he could stand his ground and use force including deadly force in order to defend himself. so, it doesn't really matter so much as to whether or not a weapon was found in the other vehicle. what matters was in the mind and was it reasonable in the mind of mr. dunn. i think again the window into his mind, the fact he doesn't call 9-1-1 while he is fleeing the scene, he is going back to a hotel. and he doesn't say that, in fact, there was a gun in the other vehicle. >> raises questions? >> those are going to be huge pieces of evidence. >> those are questions that are hard to answer. the prosecutor argued a stir can convict him on a lesse