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Hear more evidence to decide whether the 21-year-old will be sentenced to death, or whether he will get life in prison. heather hansen trial attorney and robert, a trial attorney criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor welcome. good to have you both here. they deliberated for about seven hours yesterday this jury and we know that they are back in there now. they asked a couple of questions to the judge yesterday. we always try to read into those questions to the extent that we can in ter...

Case taking their time to painstakingly go through the facts and apply those facts to the law as theyre laid out in that 30-count indictment. >> ashleigh banfield is joining us from new york as well. ashleigh, youve spent a lot of time covering this case. give us your sense of what we should be anticipating. >> well ill tell you something, wolf i have to be honest, i did not expect a deliberation on this guilt/innocence phase to go beyond just a few hours. ill say that only for this reason. norm...

Period of time asking about aiding and abetting because there are some charges that say that did dzhokhar tsarnaev use and carry a weapon of mass destruction to commit this crime or did he aid and abet? and so they really had to look at both parts of how that was written to come to their conclusion. theres no question that in terms of martin richard and lindsey lu they were standing right in front of the bomb that he left by that tree just at the end of the finish line. so all of this is what th...

His attorneys said that two other men there committed the crime. coming up, well have much more on this admission and the huge questions facing the jury deliberating right now. new developments in morning in the trial of the accused boston marathon bomber. jury back in deliberations there. they met for seven hours yesterday. they could not reach a decision in that seven hours in the case of dzhokhar tsarnaev. there are 30 counts to consider. more than half carry potential for the death penalty...

Second. weve just gotten word that theres a verdict in the dzhokhar tsarnaev trial in boston. theyre going to be coming back the jury that is around 1:45. they will be revealing the verdict that has been reached. lets check in real fast reverend, stand by. we have adam reiss standing by at the courthouse in boston. i think this is old video that were showing, just to be accurate here. the video we have up guys. adam, are you standing by? >> yes, thomas. we can tell you that they will read the ve...

Course im willing to give the death penalty, but when rubber meets the road and youre asked to send somebody to death thats a different story. so i think the prosecutions going to have to deal with that. >> this is being tried in the state that does not have the death penalty. which is why the state took over. so he could actually get the death penalty. but the pool is from a community that has not wanted the death penalty. >> as we look at the victims, we dont want to forget about them today as...

What does aiding and abetting mean and do these words have significance from the traditional usage and these are just jurors they are not lawyers or specialists and they are saying what does it mean and how long does a conspiracy last and the only thing i could know about what is going on in the room, it is secretive, but they are taking the job seriously and taking the wording seriously and as you point out if they are looking at a fact pattern where they say we know there is some kind of consp...

Defense they could mount at this point on the guilt phase. thats something that will be addressed when we go into what im sure will be the penalty phase next. then youre going to get into aggravating or mitigating circumstances, which will bring out more of it. at the end of the day, the young man fully participated intended to participate in and caused four deaths whether he was the cause or aiding and abetting. he was there and he was a major part of all this violence and carnage. >> john, im ...

Very much. another live look where the group black lives matter is protesting. we will bring you updates on "the rundown." we are keeping a close eye on a developing story from boston. jurors in the marathon bombing trial are in the second day of deliberations in the case against dzhokhar tsarnaev. he is facing 30 counts for the april, 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 260 others. 17 of those counts could carry the death penalty. msnbcs adam reiss is in boston. good morning. wha...

Hours to do it, they gave it enough attention they didnt just blindly check boxes, im assuming, now its show time. they have 17 chances to give the opportunity for us to put him to death. >> if hes found guilty brian of even one of these death penalty charges, it goes to the next phase, right. >> i would agree, gretchen, with 95 witnesses and only 11 hours of deliberation, that tells me that this jury was in agreement on nearly every count and that does not bode well for this defendant. >> this ...