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Where 2 year-olds have been shot by someone who is reckless with a gun, or some child exposed to horrible deprivation or abuse resulting in death, just so at this moment on the day of closing arguments we would have to deal with it. well, i can say it is certainly consistent with the way this case has proceeded since april, but it is certainly just as disingenuous as well. this is outrageous. its outrageous that the state would seek to do this at this time in this case. >> so lisa, don west is c...

Talk to the judge without the jury, what charges are you going to give to the judge? and -- >> shepard: theyll work out a charging document. >> the lower charges. he is only indicted for murder two but we need to add lesser includedded charges. >> hes still going to -- there could be rebuttal testimony that comes in, but i dont think the defense has put in anything that the prosecutor is going to say, i have to put some other witnesses on. >> shepard: its possible. >> absolutely. >> so at the en...

Prosecutor or defense, how do they consider race when selecting jurors? >> reporter: well, you know, i spoke with mark omara on camera on the eve of jury selection. i asked him that very question. he said, i dont care what color the juror is. i care about a preconceived notion, someone whos already taken a position that they cant move away from and will not listen to the evidence. i think thats what this individual questioning has really brought out. because ive seen it in some. and also, though...

Wake up. >> well see where it goes. >> time to wake up. >> half truths, asking one question, answering another. this is not how you get to the bottom of things. >> this does not serve the american people well when theyre not told the truth. you and i did this a couple weeks ago. i dont remember the testifier but it was the same thing. somebody giving a slightly different answer to the question. >> shepard: and they let it go. >> correct. >> shepard: nobody follows up. >> correct. >> thank you. >...

Of 2013. >> poirofessor, we have this charging document, hes sitting at dinner saying he knows how to make a bomb. when you hear that, whats your reaction? does it undermine this notion that they had no idea what was going on until they saw him talking about him on the news? >> its not an independent crime. its not even a crime to know that somebody is planning to bomb the marathon and killing lots of people. its not a crime to just know that and not report it. you have to have more involvement ...

System. and so that breakdown, if it is a breakdown, we have to figure out exactly when the school notified them. because, remember, he returns in january of this year, 2013. that is going to be a key issue. but just to put it in perspective, first of all, his student visa was okay until august of this year. so its valid. but the other issue is, would that really have triggered anything. i know its odd for people to wonder, well, why wouldnt that have gotten him arrested. a lot of people are com...

Theyre just giving you little excerpts. as juliette said theyre only putting in the complaint the bare minimum to bring the charges and hold them in custody. there will be much more coming out later as to why they feel that they tampered with evidence. again, some of the indications in the charging document, if you tell a friend, you know, go clean out my apartment, im not going to be there for a while, you think of that as washing dishes and vacuuming the rugs, you wouldnt think of it as taking...

Injured in boston a week ago. nbcs justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. lets clear up a couple things on the charges. the killing of the 346m.i.t. poe officer not included. explain it here for us. >> couple of points about this. numb per on number one, this charging document is a starting point. it is not the end of what they can charge him. it is to get the process going. there will be a grand jury indictment. it can be superseded as we go along so this isnt the totality of it. sec...

Jury indictment because the federal constitution require s that anybody who is prosecuted under a felony has to be indicted by a grand jury. thats the next step and the grand jury indictment undoubtedly will say a lot more. before they get to the trial point, if it ever comes to that, they can keep issuing superseding indictments as they add more information and potentially more charges, andrea. >> thank you very much, the detail here tells us exactly why it took several days to come up with the...

But its very clear from that that they have visual evidence and it makes the whole issue of mirandaizing him or not and whether his statements or any kind of confession have to be challenged or not challenge, because they have visual evidence. >> they have a lot of forensic evidence in this case. the statement, i havent gotten through to see if its in here. the statement of one of the men who was most severely injured in the bombing. who gave a description. >> pete? >> im just looking through th...