>> right now what we're doing is my office and the attorneys in my office are investigating the facts surrounding the death of eric harris. we have an obligation to do due diligence and to investigate all facts and look at any and all potential claims that could be brought. those claims would be claims against the sheriff himself and both as an official and individual capacity as potentially the board of county commissioners that allowed that sheriff lance, in our opinion, to essentially run wild with the sheriff's department. >> and in a civil litigation like that it seems to me that this possible falsification of training records would both be highly relevant and a very very high incentive for the other side to settle. >> absolutely. it absolutely would be because there's another layer of liability above just the liability that attaches to mr. bates for the wrongful shooting