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investigation. also this morning, we are on the ground following a growing humanitarian crisis on the southern border. as the secretary of homeland security heads to the border in anticipation of a mass influx of migrants. border towns looking for answers, migrants looking for help. >> are you desperate? >> im very desperate she tells us. i dont have anything to eat. >> we have people sleeping on our streets. this isnt sustainable. its not normal. please help us, and enough with the ...

Controversial. you can take that with a block of salt coming from me. im a criminal defense attorney. but it allows or encourages juries to deliver a partial verdict, to hurry up and resolve what they may think of as a provisional type of resolution and not being aware of the finality of it. to be candid, partial verdicts encourage efficiency. they encourage resolving a case, and they do avoid mistrials, at least as to counts the jury is confident about. so they do serve an important purpose, an...