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Practical consequences of the hobby lobby supreme court case that we are awaiting from the supreme court right now. at a time when opposition to birth control is becoming mainstream national republican politics. if anyone at a 7-eleven or at a shop on any street in america offers you birth control, offers to put in your iud or something, maybe dont call the archbishop for advice. joining us now is dalia leftwick. she helps us understand the supreme court. dalia, thanks for being here. >> thank y...

Ca case. >> the last question to eric. should this guy have an opinion blog at all? should he be giving his opinion on a whole range of topics? >> just being helpful. >> just trying to be helpful. >> trying to improve the dress code. >> listen, unbelievable, a federal judge, right? >> wow. >> talking about this -- >> he can say what he want. >> he apologized but his apology was a little weak, lets just say that. >> one more thing is up next. [ male announcer ] a body at rest tends to stay at res...

Wall, having somebody patting you up and down and somebody else surveilling and documenting it. >> stopped for no reason. this practice is unfair and unjust. thats why a federal lawsuit has been filed against the new york police department and the city of new york demanding an end of racial profiling. joining me now is attorney for the center for constitutional rights. the group that filed the lawsuit. and one of the plaintiffs in the ca case. thank you for being here. david, youve been stopped ...

Yes, third degree murder premised upon an underlying conviction for child abuse is actually a rational or listed offense in the state of florida. the next case to do with that situation is the c alrea-l-i-n- from the fifth direct court of appeal from 2000. in that case, the child abuse was committed by waving a gun around and the gun going off and the child being injured. in this case, the court said, and im reading from the second column. its a one page opinion. the statutory offense of child a...

Statutes which is child abuse, a definition of child abuse is one intentional fizzal infliction of injury on a child and two, act that could reasonably be expected to result in physical injury of a child or active encouragement of another person. obviously, theres no factual support for that third one so it has been omitted in this case. over in the right hand column we continue under headnotes 3, 4 and 5, the court quotes another case which i will get to in a moment, but quoting state vs. s-i-g...

When they provided the court with the possible lessers, and one of them was aggravated assault, i didnt have any information available to me that led me to believe that that would be a charge that would be given, because the facts did not support an aggravated assault lesser included offense. >> yes. >> their argument today is that the facts support a third degree felony murder with the underlying enumerated felony being child abuse. that is permissible under the statute. if you need -- im not g...

>> well make that change and that will be throughout. >> done, your honor. as far as agreement goes, we were in agreement as to the page that begins, members of t jury. yes, your honor? >> the defense version of the front page just has the style of the case. the second page of the defense proposed have what the state has placed on the first page. is there any objection to that all being on the first page, as the state proposed? >> that was a word processing issue, judge. i took the set of instru...

Was correct. if it results in death it can indeed be third degree murder and the defendant is entitled to such an instruction to the jury and onto the next page after si corroboration in that ca case -- after citation in that case. we find the failure to give the instruction to have been reversible error. the next case is j-a-k-u-v-o-w-s-k-i. which is a second district court of appeal decision from 1986. again, here we have a third degree felony murder. in that case, the victim was 6 years old. ...

Minutes once the trial resumes. theyre in a brief recess right now. first, some politics and not police work that is what has been driving the george zimmerman case, according to the man who initially led the investigation in its early stages. bill lee said it was politics that ultimately cost him his job as sanford, floridas police chief. he sat down for an exclusive interview with cnns george howell. >> saying this was the result of political pressure that you lost your job? >> i believe it wa...

Criminal defense attorney and legal analyst and legal prosecutor joining us as well. george howell is covering this trial for us. paul, let me start with you. this is -- sounds leg legalees and very technical but potentially very significant if the judge decides the jury can consider these lesser charges. >> its very important, wolf. its kind of boring to lay people. on the other hand, this is really -- theyre deciding the sheet of paper that the jury would have to check off guilty or not guilty...