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Attention to things like that. yet, she stirred them up into believing that if no conviction is reached in this case their moment has somehow been lost. >> well, heres the thing, megyn. i believe in the jury system and law and justice. i do believe that these cops will get a fair trial. baltimore has over 600,000 residents, right? so the fact that -- assume that marilyn mosby managed to poison all of those residents. it seems hard to believe. >> its a smaller jury pool than that though. it is a ...

Kittel you -- >> theyre going to look for reasons. >> the o.j. simpson case. i was in law school at the time. you guys probably had graduated. i remember asking how is it possible how could he get acquit snd. >> jury nullification. >> it happened. that is for our next panel. >> those jurors were threatened. they were threatened. >> you dont get to talk about that one. sorry, goodbye. >> i cant control him. sorry, meg. >> great to see them. in the weeks since the city went after these cops the ...

Their minds, theyre told dont form judgment until the case is over theyre human. beings. theyre forming judgments. the more the bricks there are the stronger the cases. >> bill, trying to defeat that even in the opening statement ladies and gentlemen, the prosecutor will come in here with a avalanche of evidence, i think you need to focus on the fact the quality of evidence, not the quantity of evidence. you will hear 439 exhibits. but if its a meaningless exhibit or -- then you have to discard ...

Mark omara, are you with us? >> yes, right here. >> and your heart cant help but break there for the family and the chad littlefield family. >> and it is funny, because even though she thanked god for the ver dishgts and for the victims family, they dont get what they want d wanted. and i have kept if in touch with the vikctimvictims familys, and their pain goes on forever. and a lot of people their live ss are satisfied with it right now, but they will be back to insatiable loss of having a lov...

Against him back then by the defense, and he was never found, there was never any evidence that he planted anything. never any accusation that he had. >> do you know if the jury -- i know there was mostly minor i tos on that jury. do you know if they believed immediately afterwards or weeks later, did they come to the conclusion that he was actually innocent, meaning he didnt do the killings? or did they come to the conclusion that the law -- the prosecution hadnt made their case? where were the...

Overcome jury nullification. will a jury empathize with him and say he was the victim and these people were breaking into his home, or will the defense have to overcome the burden of his actions? the fact he shot multiple times and did not report this right away? if this was really a self-defense why did he not report this right away? >> state law no duty to retreat inside ones home residence. but there is a duty under law to quote act reasonably when using force in self-defense. >> thats right....

Is being perpetrated and reality is, to take this out of the academic books into the real world, cases like this have very little jury appeal, okay, for the prosecutors when two people break into someones house, they are changing the rules on many levels. >> except they still have to follow, they being the jury, still have to follow, with jury nullification and judges instructions. looking at a 1997 case, manslaughter case where the court said this, the duty to retreat or duty not to retreat onl...

Intoxication doctor on the witness stand are you not on behalf of the plaintiff saying his body weight at this time with 17 drinks -- >> each constitution constitutes a transaction. there were four. chat poi at which point in time was he visibly intoxicated. was it the second, the first? this is what we need to determine. experts, yes. if he had prescription drug this is his system -- >> when the jury sees these experts, they will say wait a minute, youre the one who tookt drink. we dont care wh...

Too. >> there are are host of my colleagues that are not just going to sit around and mope and cry because this president overreaches. were going to respond and we are going to respond in the appropriations process. >> congressman, i have to tell you that quote from that democratic congressman xavier ba serra, he says something about, you know, if obamas actions were truly against the constitution, someone would have sued him by now. well, how does that hit you? he hab sued and he is going to lo...

Discussed whats next. >> as far as were concerned, we intend to retry him for second-degree murder. >> there is a 20-year minimum mandatory for each count. count five, the shooting or throwing deadly missiles is 15 years. joining me now, lisa bloom, and author of "suspicion nation" as well as john burres, a former state prosecutor. im glad to have you both with me. well go ladies first here, lisa. can you explain in lehmaaymanla terms how a jury would find him guilty of three attempted murder ...