Attorneys are presenting their 10 pre-emptory strikes of the 40
potential jurors in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder
trial on Thursday as jury selection enters its final phase.
[Chat live with Tony Pipitone from the courtroom]  Judge Debra
Nelson denied the state's only request to strike a juror for
cause on Thursday. The state said the Mexican-American juror
P-67 for cause at state request because of hardship, language
difficulties.  Nelson read the self-defense jury instructions on
Thursday morning after the state objected to Zimmerman attorney,
former Local 6 legal analyst Mark O'Mara, reading it to the
potential jurors.  Questioning continued on Thursday morning
with O'Mara, walking to Zimmerman and put his hands on his
shoulders, presumably using body language to show the jury
Zimmerman is human.  "George, he's been a called a defendant in
this case, right?" O'Mara said, prompting a state objection for
not using more formal term of "Mr. Zimmerman."  O'Mara asked the
jury candidates Thursday abo