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If somehow they lowered it and it was inappropriate, someone should be held accountable. im not jumping on until i know the facts. sometimes we like to jump on the narrative so quickly. we learned that that is not appropriate, a lot of people did that in the kyle rittenhouse case. im not going to do it just yet. >> martha: its perfectly fay to say theres a trend across the country in many districts of doing this, of lowering bail in order to let people get out and get on with their lives. well s...

Happy. >> martha: theres a lot of tragedy here across the board, which you have pointed out very clearly. two people are dead. one thing that strikes me, mark, before i let you go, theres not enough discussion what is around this, whether -- doesnt matter if you like the person that kyle rittenhouse is or you dont or what you think about the people that were killed that night in this situation. what matters is that we have a system of justice and that those jurors did the best they could to deci...

I want to bring in mark eiglarsh. who stands out to you when you listen to the details? >> went, i went through his record. boy, is that troubling. 45, 50 pages. i read every single line. this guy has it all. were talking ant crimes of violence, drugs, crimes involving morale interpitude. its extensive and everything is in there. im not jumping on the bandwagon yet that any july or prosecutor failed to keep him in. looks like he did his time for each of the crimes. im not jumping on that bandwag...

Dire process. one woman that made the final 12, you know, flat outside, no matter what we decide, half of the united states is going to be mad at us. so they had that in their minds. had to be i think at the forefront. i give them a huge amount of credit for being able to put that aside, not listen to the people who were outside screaming and yelling to hang kyle and do what i think the evidence warranted. >> martha: yeah. well, they did that. i think its important to respect their decision and ...

Is that it seemed like the prosecution is far more reticent to getting into the issue of race when they should have been much more aggressive about it throughout the course of the trial. >> what do you think about that, mark? do you think they should have been discussing race more? >> you know, the prosecutors know their audience. if this case was here, lets say in south florida, that would have come out a lot more. my feeling is that she knows kind of the pulse of the jury. youve got 11 white p...

Cadet. he was more interesting in blue lives matter and raise money for law enforcement. >> martha: lets watch in there case has nothing to do with race. had nothing to do with right. had the right to do with self-defense. >> right. >> im not a racest person. i support peacefully demonstrating, i support the blm movement. i believe there needs to be change. theres a lot of prosecutorial misconduct. not just my case but other case. its amazing ho see how much a prosecutor can take advantage of so...

Done for the day and that the prosecutions rebuttal will be tomorrow now because the defense attorneys closing arguments took so long. what do you think about that? >> i think the longer that this takes, timing becomes more of an issue. at the end of the day, we are going to consider when is the jury going to get this case? are they going to get it before thanksgiving? in which case theres going to be a significant gap before they come back with deliberations or is the judge going to opt to wait...

At issue is whether criminal defendants should be forced to turn over their cell phone passcodes to authorities.

At issue is whether criminal defendants should be forced to turn over their cell phone passcodes to authorities.

At issue is whether criminal defendants should be forced to turn over their cell phone passcodes to authorities.