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Should have been in there and get her help mentally. >> when the police started to look around, she called her neighbor up and said there are a couple feeding bags and could be hide them for me. those feeding bags had all kinds of levels of salt in them. but her defense didnt present any witnesses; is there a potential down the road ineffective assistance by counsel appeal here? >> i think you will see some kind of appeal like that if for no other reason that the defense failed to explore whethe...

University. welcome to each of you. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you. jon: john, to you first. this guy was convicted, hes sitting on death row but now comes, apparently, the claim that his attorneys didnt give the court enough information about his abusive childhood and, therefore, his conviction should be thrown out, he should get a new trial. is that appropriate? >> i think so. i think there wasnt enough mitigating evidence presented. i think the key is whether or not he had a fair trial...

Dismiss the insinuation that we really need to consider, are we going to give him what he wants here by sentencing him to death? is that going to make him a martyr? that would give them enormous amount of credibility which would be ridiculous. he is not a martyr and his moral and religious beliefs are twisted. to give that credibility by factoring that in their decision-making process too much is, would be laughable. so i think theyre really going to focus on the evidence they hear during the se...

Heather: some say it will last through august. what do you think will happen? >> look as a military judge i can tell you ive, sometimes been in the position where ive seen all the evidence, the persons found guilty, okay, i think the sentence should be x. but then all of a sudden the prosecution puts on their aggravation evidence or they dont and the defense puts on mitigation evidence or they dont and turns out a way i dont expect. we havent seen one sled of aggravation evidence and we certainl...

If they are able to persuade the jury and get a unanimous vote on that, then it moves to the actual death penalty phase of the trial, and that is where the defense attorneys will present mitigating factors, mitigating evidence as to why jodi arias life should be spared. if the jury does not find that there was extreme cruelty in the case, then what happens is that it goes directly to the judge, and she has two options. she can either sentence jodi arias to 25 years to life or life without the po...

Defense attorneys will present mitigating factors, mitigating evidence as to why jodi arias life should be spared. if the jury does not find that there was extreme cruelty in the case, then what happens is that it goes directly to the judge, and she has two options. she can either sentence jodi arias to 25 years to life or life without the possibility of release at any future time, pier >> casey, this is amazing interview that she gave afterwards when she said she would prefer to be given the de...

Life in prison. negotiation. she is brilliant at that. the other thing, if negotiations fail is to research the life of your client in such a way that a jury will not impose the death penalty. mitigating evidence. yes, theyre guilty of this crime. but you have to see them as a complete person. you have to see the influences that formed them. those are the two general categories. >> one thing i read thats fascinating is her first step convincing her clients that they can have a life in prison. th...

You know, alphabet soup clearances. and he knew. he would have been briefed on it the first day. you can only conclude unless he produces mitigating evidence, you can only conclude this this was one more cover-up within the web of cover-ups the white house has produced about this. and by the way, im still waiting for president obama to call this an act of islamist terror. he wont because his whole narrative is hes mr. tough guy on al-qaeda, al-qaedas broken. here we are four years later. at the ...

Us. first, start with your reporting and tell us if there are any updates today. >> for months, years, there have been investigations into the trump organization, the financial dealings in new york, and they seem to be coming to a head now. today was the final deadline, end of day today, to present any sort of mitigating evidence to not have charges brought against the company and our sources indicate the cfo allen weisselberg could face charges as soon as later this week. a two-pronged effort h...

For that code that we consider to be inviolate, astounds me. david: by the way, the colonels name is jeffrey nance. im wondering what do you think was going on? you cant get inside somebody elses head, but he did mention president trumps comments about bergdahl, suggesting there might be mitigating evidence involving those comments. did that play a role in his sentencing, such as it was? >> that could only play a role if it affected nance in the term that it was undue command influence, but nanc...