pbs高端访谈:辩护律师敦促陪审团不是“连点”

 　　JUDY WOODRUFF:The testimony¹ is over, closing arguments are done, and now it's the jury's turn. Six women in Sanford, Fla., began deliberating this afternoon in the case of a neighborhood watch volunteer accused of murdering an unarmed teenager on Feb. 26, 2012.

　　MARK O'MARA,attorney for George Zimmerman: I have never said this in a criminal trial before. I have never heard it being said before. I almost wish that the verdict had guilty, not guilty, and completely innocent, because I would ask you to check that one.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF:Defense² attorney Mark O'Mara used his close to insist again that George Zimmerman acted in self-defense and to reject any suggestion that he had it in for Trayvon Martin.

　　Instead, O'Mara argued it was Martin who went looking for trouble that night. He pointed³ to the four minutes between the time the 17-year-old initially⁴ ran from Zimmerman and when he stopped running.

　　MARK O'MARA:The person who decided⁵ that this is going to continue, that it was going to become a violent event was the guy without didn't go home when he had the chance to. It was the guy who decided to lie in wait, I guess, plan his move, it seems, decide what he was going to do, and went.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF:Martin was unarmed but the defense lawyer argued the teenager still had potential weapons at his disposal and that he used them.

　　MARK O'MARA:But that is cement. That is the sidewalk. And that is not an unarmed teenager with nothing but Skittles trying to get home. That was somebody who has used the availability of dangerous items, from his fists to the concrete, to cause great bodily injury.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF:The prosecution⁶ says Zimmerman profiled Martin, assumed he was a criminal, and actively⁷ pursued him, leading to the fatal shooting.

　　But O'Mara told the jurors that the case is full of could-have-beens and maybes, and he warned jurors not to do the prosecutors⁹' work for them.

　　MARK O'MARA:You can't fill in the gaps. You can't connect the dots for the state attorney's office in this case. You're not allowed to. This is their burden. They have to take away reasonable doubt.

　　They have to look at this case and say to you, ladies and gentlemen of this jury, hi, we're the state. We have proved this case beyond and to the exclusion¹⁰ of every reasonable doubt, because we have connected every dot that fall into line that leads to nothing but conviction.

　　And they just didn't.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF:Ultimately, said O'Mara, the killing¹¹ of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy, but he said the jury must not let sympathy influence the verdict.

　　In his rebuttal, prosecutor⁸ John Guy acknowledged the case and the evidence may not be perfect, but, he argued:

　　JOHN GUY, Florida District attorney: It is enough, with your common sense. It is enough. And I'm not asking you to fill gaps. I'm asking you to do what you do every day. Start from the beginning, get to the end, and apply your common sense.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF:With that, it fell to Judge Debra Nelson to instruct the six-woman jury on the main charge of second-degree murder or the lesser¹² charge of manslaughter.

　　JUDGE DEBRA NELSON,18th Circuit Court of Florida: In considering the evidence, you should consider the possibility that although the evidence may not convince you that George Zimmerman committed the main crime of which he is accused, there may be evidence that he committed other acts that would constitute lesser included crimes.

　　Therefore, if you decide that the main accusation¹³ has not been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, you will next need to decide if George Zimmerman is guilty of any lesser included crimes.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF:The case then went to the juror to sort out the often conflicting testimony, and the waiting began. Law enforcement and community leaders in Sanford, Florida, have called for calm, no matter what the verdict turns out to be.

1 testimony   

n.证词；见证，证明

参考例句：

• The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
• He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。

2 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

3 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

4 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

5 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

6 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

7 actively   

adv.积极地，勤奋地

参考例句：

• During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
• We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。

8 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

9 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

10 exclusion   

n.拒绝，排除，排斥，远足，远途旅行

参考例句：

• Don't revise a few topics to the exclusion of all others.不要修改少数论题以致排除所有其他的。
• He plays golf to the exclusion of all other sports.他专打高尔夫球，其他运动一概不参加。

11 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

12 lesser   

adj.次要的，较小的；adv.较小地，较少地

参考例句：

• Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
• She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及，但程度较轻。

13 accusation   

n.控告，指责，谴责

参考例句：

• I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
• She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。