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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: What You Need to Hear in the Prosecution's Closing Arguments [Watch (HLS stream): What You Need to Hear in the Prosecution's Closing Arguments](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bdaTNyXx.m3u8) (2:40)  _Published 2013-07-12. A condensed version of Assistant State Attorney John Guy's closing statement at the Zimmerman Trial._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:39 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Closing Arguments in Trial Over Loud Music](/video/LxJOrXTE/) ### Closing Arguments in Trial Over Loud Music [What You Need to Hear in the Defense's Closing Arguments](/video/PWIxB3MU/) ### What You Need to Hear in the Defense's Closing Arguments [Sparks Fly During Zimmerman Trial Opening Statements](/video/UPBqXsAk/) ### Sparks Fly During Zimmerman Trial Opening Statements --- ## Transcript I'm going to give you one more old saying. The most important one you're going to hear. And that is: To the living, we owe respect. But to the dead, we owe the truth. On behalf of the state of Florida, I submit to you that Trayvon Benjamin Martin is entitled to the truth. And it didn't come from that defense mouth. It didn't. He told so many lies. That's why we're here. If he was yelling that loud and that long, would he have sounded the way he sounded, on the recordings that you have? He wouldn't have been hoarse, he wouldn't have had a strained voice, if that was him yelling? Really? That's why common sense is so important. This isn't a complicated case. It's a common sense case. And it's not a case about self- defense. It's a case about self- denial. George Zimmerman, if he really wanted the police to get Trayvon Martin what would he have done? He would have stayed in his car. And driven to the back gate where he had told them so many times, they always go through the back gate. And he would have waited for the police. But that's not what he had in his heart. Was that child not in fear when he was running from that defendant? Isn't that every child's worst nightmare? To be followed on the way home in the dark by a stranger. Isn't that every child's worst fear? That was Trayvon Martin's last emotion. This case is not about standing your ground. It's about staying in your car, like he was taught to do. Like he was supposed to do. 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