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case. criminal defense attorney carrie hackett and mo ivory are both here with me. oh my goodness. you know, it was already a marathon trial. and now, folks are going to kind of go through it again, ladies. but this time the penalty phase, very unusual. so, a jury has to be selected. does this mean that they're going to, mo, hear evidence, testimony, just like a mini trial again? >> sure. just when you thought you had enough of jodi arias, right, she's back? it will be treated like a brand-new trial but just dealing with the phase of sentencing and ether she will die by lethal injection or whether she'll serve life in prison without parole. there can be evidence. in fact, jodi herself could testify again. >> really? >> yes. >> like 18 days. >> yeah. she won't be subject to cross-examination because this is about her sentencing and not necessarily about the testimony in the case which they have already found her guilty. >> what's the deal with the motion of no cameras?
the other two captives now are able to step up. in this case it will be michelle knight who will say "i am not afraid of you and i will tell you exactly what you did to me, and the impact on my life now, tomorrow and forever. except that i am able to move on." and that is powerful, it's courageous, and it shows the people who are watching this and especially for this sentencing that this is not just about second-person related events, but first-person. what she and the other two actually experienced and why this man needs to be put behind bars forever and ever. >> the other interesting thing that we saw inside the courtroom, tanya, was a model of ariel castro's house. and this is quite unusual at a sentencing hearing, isn't it? >> well, it is. i mean, and like paige was saying, this is really sort of a mini trial. and normally when prosecutors have these kinds of demonstrative exhibits, it's to
raped. all three of them were raped vaginally, that's what they reported. multiple, repeated times, against their will, under threat of physical harm, is what they related. >> thank you. >> your honor, the state would next present detective andrew of the cleveland sex crimes unit. >> all right. i want to clue you into exactly what's going on. and i have my panel of experts here to help me do that. and paige pate, i'll start with you. the prosecution is putting a series of witnesses on the stand to prove what? >> they're trying to lay out their case. this is almost like a mini trial. it's like they're going through the process of presenting the evidence that they would if the case had gone to trial. now normally you would see if the case was going to trial the defense lawyer standing up and cross examining these witnesses. they're standing there and taking it. the state has a right to do it
was happening was consensual. that is the delusion that keeps someone like that alive because if he were to face what he actually did, i think he'd probably kill himself. >> martin, the state introduced new evidence today. i mean, we heard things we didn't know before, about how he abducted these women, specifically the stories, and there were a lot of pictures of the chains that he used to restrain them, of a gun. they even brought in a model of a house, exactly where they lived, showing where the women were forced to use the bathroom. what new did you learn today, martin? >> reporter: well, i mean, i guess what's interesting is, of course, this is a sentencing hearing so it should have been a arather perfunctory event, but it became a mini trial. the reason the prosecution wanted to do this was to get on the record how bad ariel castro was and just the fact that he had pled guilty and that he's got life and 1,000 years, no. they wanted to make sure he would never get out and they wanted to make sure that history new the recording of his
zero. >> how bizarre was this whole sentencing hearing today in the scheme of things? and you've heard and watched a lot of these kinds of hearings. >> well, what was really unusual was how much evidence the prosecution put on, even before one of the victims testified. there were fbi agents, there were psychiatrists. i mean, this was almost like a mini trial. and i think it served several purposes. in part, it was to make the proceedings completely appeal-proof, but also, i think, to show the community just how horrendous this situation was. and in case anyone had any doubt that life plus 1,000 years was an inappropriate sentence, anyone who followed today would think that he was lucky to get away with this sentence. >> the court-appointed lawyers that were surrounding him, could they have done more to reign him in from saying some of these obnoxious statements that he made? >> not that i could tell.
today and having my privacy has helped immensely. i ask everyone to continue to respect our privacy and give us time to have a normal life. >> shepard: the three survivors released a statement through their legal team today saying amanda gina and michelle are relieved by today's plea. satisfied resolution of the case and looking forward to having these legal proceedings draw to a close in the near future. garrett continue any is continueny is live in our new york newsroom in a minute garrett? >> have a chance to hear from three women next thursday at ariel ariel castros sentencing hearing where prosecutors said they are also going to be putting on what they are calling a mini trial, essentially laying out what life was like for those three women during their years in captivity. the prosecutor laid out what ariel castro's future will hold. >> by the terms of this agreement, this man is going to prison for the rest of his life. he is never coming out except failed in a box or a
bit ago in atleboro, massachusetts, former new england patriots star aaron hernandez was in court for a probable cause hearing in his first degree murder case. this was him arriving just a short time ago. we know the prosecution issued a continuance of that hearing on specifically that. that didn't happen. what does this mean? we'll get to it in a second. the prosecutors trying to lay out evidence here against this former nfl star in the death of his friend, odin lloyd, back in mid-june. we also learned just a short time ago, a suffolk county grand jury is looking into the double homicide of two men in boston last july. a source tells cnn prosecutors are presenting evidence that could tie hernandez to those shootings. let me bring in our criminal defense attorney, darren kavinoky. so the probable cause hearing didn't happen. continuance happened. what does that mean? >> so a probable cause hearing, it's like a mini trial. but it takes place just in front of the judge. there's no jury there. but live witnesses come in and testify and are subject to
on appeal, that her first-degree murder conviction issing did to be reversed. i don't see her ever waiving that right to appeal. i think she's going to say no. go ahead, try to kill me because it's all coming back, anyway. >> this is a very unusual and rare process in arizona. different from most other state, at least i know. >> yeah. >> how do you go about getting a jury to rehear just the facts about whether she ought to get the death penalty. >> what's going to happen is the state and the defense are going to have to both sides are going to bring the new jury up to speed on everything that happened in what we call the guilt phase, which is the first phase of the trial. you're going to see sort of a mini trial. you're not going to see the abbreviated version we saw in the sentencing phase, they have reexplain and introduce the evidence that came in. it will be a much longer process. >> so you're talking another month? >> another six weeks. you're going to have to pick a
the phase. >> they have to do a mini trial again to get jurors up to speed? >> you have to do a voer deer and jury selection that could take weeks to find death penalty authorized jurors to sit there then you go through a mini trial. you have the opening statement. >> it could take months and months? >> yeah, from here. we are not going to do that. >> if the jury is hung again the judge cannot give a death sentence. it will be a life sentence. >> the judge could also decide parole possibly down the road. >> the judge could decide a real life sentence or a life sentence with eligibility of parole. >> the family of travis, they have been through so much already. do you think the prosecutors are going to try to cut a deal with arias and might arias be open to that? >> she has no leverage at this
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