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Going to survive the mob. Youre going to have to shave your welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose and Norah Odonnell are off. Im Anthony Mason along with margaret brennan. Good morning. Good morning. The Holiday Weekend is approaching. And so is arthur. Its now hurricane arthur. The immediate threat is along North Carolinas outer bangs. A mandatory Evacuation Order is now in place. A satellite view shows the size of the system. It plans to threaten tens of millions of americans iechlts expec...

Without you. Hurt arthur is aiming at the eco. People are evacuating. I want to reiterate. Dont put your stupid hat on. Cleanup is under way after storms surge through the area. A wildfire in napa, california, 200 homes have been evacuated and more than a thousand firefighters are working it. Crackdown on security at the airport. Theyre developing a new generation of bombs that are easier to smuggle. The fbi arresting a colorado woman accused of providing security support to isis. The poll rates...

Joyce was appointed by governor perry to serve as the representative of the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of texas and she is honored to have been the first non lawyer appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Innocence Project of texas. I will ask her not to come to the podium and take over for a while. Thank you for being here. [applause] a good evening everyone im so glad to see so many of your faces i havent seen in years. Some of you are new to me altogether so im very glad...

Henry wade was the da . He was the longtime dallas da for almost three decades, and a lot of people remember him from roe v. Wade, of course. I call them in the book the prosecutor who was denied because while the polish off the ruby. A lot of people have a great a fight for every week. Im sure the legacy he left was due to him being a man of his time. Times change. There needs to be equal justice more so in the state. I just want to mention what were talking about justice, dont you believe that...

James woodard was not one of the three men. But the prosecutors in the trial hid that evidence from probably a very inexperienced courtappointed attorney who did not have it to share with the jury or the judge. And james was locked up no physical evidence connects him to the crime whatsoever. So i very much agree with you that prosecutorial misconduct needs to be looked at for all of the damage that it has done. No one is seeing prosecutors come forth and apologize to the men, and a lot of them ...

Information that is favorable to the accused because all favorable information is critically relevant to that determination. The commitment of nacdl and the foundation for criminal justice to seek reform in the area of fair disclosure is one of the many areas in which we are working to make our criminal Justice System fairer and more humane across a wide range of issues. In recent months we have worked to expand access to counsel, promote reform of the nations indigent reform system, address eth...

Complete. Ord is yet that is exactly what we expect prosecutors to do in applying materiality standards to pretrial without any sense of the perspective of the defendant. Complicating the problem further, is the prosecutors dual role. Prosecutor is a minister of justice, but importantly a advocater is also an with the skills, the training and ability to effectively winecute cases and convictions. What is inherently difficult thet the prosecutor making materiality decision is that he cannot be ne...

She launched the Veritas Initiative committed to pursuing data driven reform. We are proud to partner with and santa clara oin this project. I am going to invite you appear to tell us about the project and how the courts are doing in ensuring fair disclosure increment all cases. In criminal cases. Thank you. The fairness of the criminal trial depends on the ability of the accused to present a defense and of course to present a defense depends on the axis the criminal defendant has to favorable e...

Good evening. We find ourselves tonight in that period between landfall of a monster storm and then learning how bad it was when communications are back up. There is reason to believe, though, that entire portions of the philippines are cut off tonight and under water after a storm made landfall thats being described as the most powerful on earth ever to hit land. Wind gusts at the core were predicted at over 200 miles an hour. At that speed, nothing can remain attached to the earth. Waves were ...