. >> and professor burkehalter, the examples that dr. tobin reached for when he was trying to make a medical point to this jury were so excessable and made so much sense. he talked about the absence of bruising which is defense is going to want to make a lot of, they're going to make that a major why, an absence of bruising to the neck of george floyd. he used an example of going to church to make his point about that. let's listen to that. >> there was also a reference made to the absence of bruising on the neck during autopsy. >> yes. >> does that make any difference to you whatsoever? >> no, obviously, whenever i go to church, i sit on a hard bench. i don't get bruising of my buttocks when i leave. so i wouldn't expect anything if tomorrows of that so if you have somebody, this was a static force. it's not as if somebody is jamming against it. so you wouldn't expect anything in the way of bruising. >> professor burkehalter, your reaction to that. >> i thought it was really quite amazing. you know, expert witnesses sometime can really

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professor burkehalter, let me begin with you as an expert on trial tactics and your reaction to what you saw in the closing today. >> laurnsz, i create a grading sheet and gave the prosecution an an or a-minus trying to be objective. i gave the defense a b-minus or c-plus and i'll tell you why. the prosecution's closing, they handled it just as they handled the opening. i tell my students tell me what you are going to tell me. tell me and then tell me what you've told me. the prosecution started off with the video. and they instructed the jury to believe their eyes and watch the video and then set worth a narrative of events. that's what we saw today. they played the video. set forth a narrative. told a story that the jury could follow and ended with some very stark particulars in the rebuttal. the fact that george floyd lived over 1, 700 days and went through about 110 ten-minute intervals that day and never died and then juxtaposed by the defense and the defense i.c.e..ed the video which i don't understand why they would do so. the defense in making points kept showing the video an

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still with us is former nypd detective kirk burkehalter and joining us is attorney, the lead prosecutor in the bill cosby trial. kristen, among the take aways from this doctor he said that the amount of methamphetamine in george floyd's body consistent with the dose of prescription methane a low amount. and the prosecution was also asking him questions about how high tolerance for fentanyl impacts the overall effects and the reason i imagine that's important because we heard in earlier testimony from george floyd's former girlfriend that mr. floyd had a high tolerance for fentanyl. what is the prosecution trying to achieve with this particular loon of questioning? >> i think the prosecution is trying to show several things and quite frankly i think they're doing it effectively and the defense is -- their argument is hit a wall today why what they're trying to show is that based on other nms testing the toxic things in mr. floyd's bloodstream specifically the methane the fentanyl are within normal levels and there have been other evenings specifically those driving under the influence st

. >> back with us, law professor kirk burkehalter and mark claxton, both former nypd detectives. mark, your reaction to this final testimony today, the sequence of it including a cardiologist saying absolutely no health condition contributing to the death it was all a result of the police force used against him and then like you, a former police officer and now turned law professor like kirk, saying at this force -- this use of deadly force was completely unreasonable. >> well, it's quite clear that the prosecutors are tripling down, not even doubling down but tripling down and they want to make it explicitly clear about what caused the death of mr. floyd. it's quite clear by that. both the medical experts and the use of force expert was very clear and convincing and defining the positions. and also, it should be noted that the job throughout the course of the trial that the prosecutor jerry blackwell has done is exemplary because he allows on direct and redirect the witnesses really to shine and has such a tone and tenor that's very comforting, reassuring so i think that will re

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. >> back with us, law professor kirk burkehalter and mark claxton, both former nypd detectives. the reaction to the sequence and the cardiologist saying absolutely no health condition contributing the death, it was all a result of the police force used against him and then like you a former police officer and now turned law professor like kirk saying this force, this use of deadly force was completely unreasonable. >> it's quite clear that the prosecutors are tripling down. not even doubling down but tripling down and want to make it clear about what caused the death of mr. floyd and quite clear by that. both the medical experts and the use of force expert was very clear and convincing and defining the positions. and also, it should be noted that the job throughout the course of the trial that the prosecutor jerry blackwell has done is exemplary because he allows on direct and redirect the witnesses really to shine and has such a tone and tenor that's very comforting, reassuring so i think that will resonate with the jurors as it has with me not being the legal expert that kirk