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Occupying a federal building, refusing to leave even after the two ranchers who inspired the protest turned themselves in on monday. law enforcement has yet to take any action. a former south carolina police officer charged in the videotaped shooting of an unarmed black man has been released from jail. michael slager was granted bail on monday. last april, slager pulled walter scott over, reportedly for a broken brake light. scott ran away from the scene and was shot in the back by slager. t...

What do we mean to be achieving with these drug laws. >> karen, thats a good point. you cant avoid the racial component. blacks, 20 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to life without parole for nonviolent crime. 2001 to 2008 white applicants more than four times likely to receive presidential pardons. this is one of those cases where the president is wading into this issue squarely about race. >> when we talk about sentencing theres one word, afluenza. yes, can you be president if you...

A psychologist and gets a diagnosis that the kid is not playing with a full deck. >> will it send a message to other kids that you cant call in bomb hoaxes and shut down harvard even after the boston bombing. >> you cant hit the fire alafrm when you dont want to take your calculus exam. >> i thought you had to be smart to get into harvard. >> there is my defense. he had a lapse. it has been diagnosed high doctor karls son who said that he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder. >> afluenza....

>> the family speaking out about ethan couch. his lawyer said he suffered from afluenza growing up entitled and spoiled and never facing consequences. the judge ruling he is a defendant in need of long-term treatment now because of his up bringing. eric boil the husband and the father of two of those victims was speaking out talking about what he thought about the sentencing. >> we knew the maximum sentence was a 20-year sentence which in the juvenile system meant that ethan would be eligible fo...

Guilty of murder in the second degree. a teenager who got behind the wheel drunk and killed four people, found guilty. guess how much time he will spend in prison? his defense team argues he is a rich kid and as a result, he did not know better. im not even kidding. they called it, afluenza. affluenza. is next.

From wrong. that is essentially the argument that his lawyers made successfully in court. the deadly crash happened in june. near ft. worth. investigators say this 16-year-old stole beer from a convenience store, got to three times the legal limit of drunk, and then drove off in his fathers pickup truck with seven other people. the blood tests, three times the legal limit. and then he plowed into and killed four pedestrians on a rural road. cops say the teen was also speeding. prosecutors fought...

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