they were a party drug. so the revelation that bill cosby may have been using quaaludes reckreationrecreationally. that is different than giving them to women. if i m playing the bill wearing my bill cosby defense hat, that is going to be their position. that s the only thing he admitted to. i had quaaludes and used them recreationally. that is a bit of a crime, but in this case it s far better than admitting to what we are saying this transcript really means. you are saying he can t be prosecutored? not unless you have somebody that falls within the statute. tell people the law. there s something tricky with the crimes that goes through refreshment of recollection and
what i think is the clear narrative for the defense and i ve got to try to put my defense hat on here and this is going to be a pretty difficult one to do. i think what s going to happen is he ll have to say, his argument will be look i feared for my life. this guy grabbed my weapon in the part of the video we don t see this guy grabbed my weapon he reached for my baton, i feared for my life i had to try to tase him. that was part of the narrative we don t see in the video. that will be what the criminal lawyer who represents this officer says. he ll say, listen this was all one long movement. i reached to try to defend myself when he ran off i reached for my weapon and i fired a gun. it was a mistake. it was in the heat of passion. it was a moment of a mistake that i take back for the rest of my life. but it clearly is not murder in the first degree. that will be the defense. but the problem with that poppy, is look at how careful this officer was. look at his stance, look at his de
hat here and i m just trying to figure out what the defense is going to say. the defense is going to say what the defense is going to say. they re going to say what? they re going to say it was a copting event ingcontinuing event and there was a fight and i don t think it will work because he had too much time and shot him in the back. the supreme court has ruled police cannot shoot a fleeing suspect who poses no danger so slager would have to claim somehow a danger. where s the danger? no danger. he would have to claim an imminent danger to himself or the public in general. there s none. in this case we just don t have those facts. how can it be a danger to the public the guy s unarmed? that s the point. he s unarmed and running away. and slager had his license. he had his car back at the scene. it s not where he could get away and he didn t know where this guy is and he fears he may hurt someone else. police have to try to not use deadly force. that s the last t
now, obviously, a judge in georgia, has looked at his case, and has decided, this is a serious enough case that he s flot going to be let out of prison. i m going to set high bail on the case. so i have to believe that there s evidence here that hasn t been released publicly that at least a judge is thinking would support incarceration for a long period of time. paul, it just seems i ve covered this since it broke it just seems too neat in some ways. why would he offer this in an interview? the prosecution had on, put your defense hat on. if he is working i.t. for a major company and a web designer, he knows these searches are retrievable. is it possible that you know, this man is innocent until proven guilty, that he s left the child in the car before, and found him in time and then said, oh, god. what if i had not found him, and then said, how long does it take
which is true, in a civil case jury send out the note can we award more than the plaintiff is asking for. the defense lawyers scrambled in hallway in panic and settled case. they asked jurors wanted to know about. we had a defense verdict. somebody was curious. you can t read too much into the notes. that is faith s point. that is what we re trout in trying cases. never read too much into juror s notes. how do you address this at end of the day in closing arguments? you look at jurors, there are certain issues you don t have to decide here. when you go back into the jury deliberation room, the question of who did it that is not something you should be debating. the issue was it self-defense. you have to tell them that and narrow the issues for them. jenna: has it seems the prosecution has made a clear enough case that she is cold-blooded murderer, doug or does it seem like they re not getting it home in this trial? i know i have defense hat on, reality she gave three