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-- -- depraved indifference homicide. the classic law school example of that is like the guy who shoots a gun into a crowd. he is not aiming at any person but headless. danger to everyone. this is that kind of a thing. this guy wasnt intending to kill any particular person but what he did was so reckless and so indicative of depravity that it should be charged as murder on that theory. >> dana: all right. andy mccarthy, thank you so much. >> michigan democrat congresswoman tlaib endorsing a prop...

That, investigation is going to be taken as to apparently he gave a lot of gifts to the department. very noble gifts like money for police cars if thats the reason why he got the reserve officer of the year -- >> thats crazy. >> thats the reason why hes in that position. then the lawsuit -- >> ive given money to police in the past, that doesnt make you ready to be due tiesed and takedown suspects. >> i have two words for you, shaquille oneal steven seagal. it happens in every major city. >> i do...

Shaquille oneal steven seagal. it happens in every major city. >> i dont think the prosecutor had a choice here. he had to file these charges. everything that mark said earlier should be taken into consideration about his plea bargaining and whether you offer this man a much lower jail sentence. theres no way they could have not charged him under these circumstances. >> he caved to public pressure. >> he did not. this is a law school example. >> another second. >> i disagree with you, my bald br...

Is very unique to you? >> the law in colorado is very unique. unlike the laws in new york, you want to use the insanity defense, the burden is on the defense to prove to the jurors that the defendant did not know right from wrong. a classic law school example and squeezed it. they thought they were squeezing a banana but it was a semiautomatic. in colorado it is the other way around. the burden is on the prosecutor to prove he was sane. when the burden shifts to the prosecution, the handcuffs co...

And pay for the living cost of this run away situation he was trying to get away from, wouldnt that be legal under the law. >> i feel like im in a supreme court oral argument or a law school example, but your hypothetical under the finance terrain we have now, i think that would be perfectly acceptable and thats really what case turned on. was this a personal expense or political expense. this was the outer limits of the campaign finance laws. people that bring these cases all the time say its w...

To say the landscape has changed. >> let me ask a tongue twister here. suppose the same thing happened. he had a girlfriend, a child out of wedlock, keep out of publicity and his wife, and he had a buddy of his form a super pac and totally legal on paper, and pay for the living cost of this run away situation he was trying to get away from, wouldnt that be legal under the law. >> i feel like im in a supreme court oral argument or a law school example, but your hypothetical under the finance terr...