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BLITZER: And you can see more of that interview with the prosecutors later tonight on our sister network, HLN. The show, 10:00 p.m. Eastern, "HLN After Dark."
We're also hearing from the defense in this trial, George Zimmerman's lead attorney, Mark O'Mara. He sat down with our own Chris Cuomo. And Chris zeroed in on something a lot of people want to know. Is George Zimmerman sorry about what happened? Listen to this.
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CHRIS CUOMO, CNN CORRRESPONDENT: Does he regret, though, picking out Trayvon Martin? He was wrong, right? This kid was not doing anything wrong. He belonged there. He had a right to the place and space where he was also. Does he regret even singling him out that night?
MARK O'MARA, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, let's look at the circumstances as he was viewing them. He saw somebody who happened to be in the area where another person had just burglarized a home. Yes, and it was a young black male. Was that a focusing, a profiling? It was a suspicion. Let's not also forget that Trayvon Martin was under the influence of some marijuana. It didn't come into trial but we're not bound by those facts now. We can't ignore the fact he had prior history of burglaries because he was found with the fruits of a burglary back several months before. So, you know, if we're going to look at the suspicions and the way he was acting, he was seemingly wandering around, having spent 45 or 50 minutes traveling less than a mile. So, if you are going to look at what George Zimmerman saw that night, it's all got to be taken in context.
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BLITZER: O'Mara also says he was surprised that there was an outrage after the verdict because he had hoped that people would see the trial as fair.
O’Mara should just say that Trayvon appeared to Zimmerman on that dark and rainy night the same way Trayvon appeared to the resource officer in his school who checked his bag and found stolen jewelry in it.
"MARK O'MARA, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, let's look at the circumstances as he was viewing them. He saw somebody who happened to be in the area where another person had just burglarized a home. Yes, and it was a young black male. Was that a focusing, a profiling? It was a suspicion. Let's not also forget that Trayvon Martin was under the influence of some marijuana. It didn't come into trial but we're not bound by those facts now. We can't ignore the fact he had prior history of burglaries because he was found with the fruits of a burglary back several months before. So, you know, if we're going to look at the suspicions and the way he was acting, he was seemingly wandering around, having spent 45 or 50 minutes traveling less than a mile. So, if you are going to look at what George Zimmerman saw that night, it's all got to be taken in context."