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And thats the end of it. jon: it clearly hurt your career, arthur. >> yeah. jon: fred, you have thoughts about that. >> he is suffering badly. he makes a great point, jon and you do too. sometimes when youre a defense lawyer and representing celebrities part of what you do is spin in the press. arthur picked up on the right thing, when youre a prosecutor you are supposed to be stoic and above it all. ill tell youing something, the first case i tried in the as prosecutor i lost my temper in the c...

Factors influenced youre having a memory problem? >> usually when men like you are screaming at me or grilling me or someone like travis doing the same. >> so that affects your memory problems, right. >> right it. makes my brain scramble. >> so youre saying it is, basically what youre saying mr. martinezs fault that you cant remember things that are going on? >> it is not your fault. >> im not saying that. youre saying that, isnt it. >> no, im not saying that. >> is there something about a certa...

>> not even you could get this woman acquitted. i doubt you could even get this woman off death row. >> that will be interesting. she may have won enough sympathy to keep -- >> people filter information differently. i see them looking at her and seeing her as manipulative dishonest person from the time she dyed her hair until the last word came out of her mouth. jon: the message you talked about. well get into that a little more in the next hour of "happening now." fred tecce, arthur aidala. jen...

Fred tecce also a former prosecutor. welcome to both of you. >> thanks for having me. jon: we heard the little snippet before the commercial break. talking about tweets she got, im sorry, the texts she got very disturbing apparently from her ex-boyfriend. that stuff should be available to the prosecution, arthur. they can bring in those texts and prove whether or not she was really being badgered or abused by this guy, right? >> self-defense, jon. she is claiming self-defense. she is not going w...

>> this isnt casey anthony. jon: well, but it is quite a story at any rate. early in the hour we thought that she would be testifying again today. she will not because they have canceled court proceedings because the judge is out sick. we will certainly keep our viewers updated on this very strange story. arthur, fed, -- fred, thank you both. >> thanks for having me. jenna: what a nice story on valentines day. maybe the judge said, it is too ironic. no court today. jon: i hadnt thought of that. ...

-- the noose gets. jon: arthur, does she bring on some of his friends to rebut the character assassination on the stand? >> that is option, jon. not being in the courtroom it is difficult to get the pulse of what is going on. they may do nothing. in other words, if fred is right, if she is putting the noose around her own neck, you dont want to, im going to mess this up, pull victory from the jaws of defeat or one of those things? in other words, she may be winning the case for the prosecution b...

Fred, that is a little unusual, isnt it? especially for a witness, i mean for the suspect in a death penalty case? >> i think its incredibly unusual. what it tells me, jon, her lawyers cant control her. any lawyer would half a brain would have her on and off with two days, ma. she has been up there. she wants to keep talking. i heard someone call her the original chatty cathy. i think that is apt statement. the more she talks the more she buries herself. she spent seven days running this guy dow...

Jon: well it is every high school athletes dream. an athletic scholarship to a major university. that dream came true for florida foot pool star alex collins. but he might have one more obstacle to face. this more obstinate than any defensive lineman. he hand his father signed a letter of intent for him to play for the arkansas razorbacks but his mother, well, mom is doing everything she can to keep here baby boy at home. first she hid the letter of intent. she hired the cochran law firm, that i...

Sure there are no deals under the table. to make sure there was no type of pressure, undue pressure or duress put on this young man. he is a minor. these parents are not married. jon, what will be looked at what are the rules in the state of florida regarding guardians of a minor and who has control over making this final decision? jon: well, fred, give us your jurisprudence on this. >> first thing i tell you i knew it. i knew it. she shipment have called johnnie cochran. should have called arth...

He signs a contract. the mans word is his bond. his father signs it. what does she do? she goes out to hire a lawyer to raise all technicalities. what a terrible, terrible life lesson. he made a deal. he promised he would go to arkansas. a legal letter of intent signed by one guardian. i havent heard her say the father had the right to do it. so at the end of the day guess what? the contract stands. jon: arthur, you said there are lot of great schools in florida and should be happy to make his m...