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Psychological, physical violence, sexual violence in their background. however, im kind of tough on this because i still dont believe it should be a mitigating factor. they still have the ability to make choices and its free will and theyre making these choices and its the wrong choices. >> lets just turn to the boston bombing suspect. this confession apparently has been found in the boat where he was hiding. how significant will that be to the case? on the face of it, it is his admission of gui...

>> reporter: maybe thats why jodi said in the interview, i have no mitigating factors t. statutory mitigating factors, i would think the defense would bring in the tears you saw on the stand when travis name was mentioned. when the injuries to travis were documented in court. she was crying during that time. one statutory mitigating factor is her age. apparently, that is not going to be available to the defense, but they have to argue i think an argument that she is 32-years-old. shes not 72-yea...

Be especially heinous. i think they have got it. that doesnt mean she gets death. that doesnt mean that they sentence her to death. >> no. >> how do they stop a death penalty recommendation or death penalty verdict at that point, jonna. >> she might have to get on the stand again, painfully, this time hopefully not for 18 long days and beg for mercy. giving interviews saying i dont want mercy, i want to die. get on the stand never mind all of that i really do want to live mission meigs convince ...

Mitigating factor at sentencing, i think, should he be convicted of this, but as the guilt/incense stage of the trial, i dont know that youth is going to have a lot to do with it. i dont think that a jury is going to care too much about how old he is. hes 19 years old, an adult. it would something that i would be looking at, but i really dont think that its the big smoking gun here for him. >> well, what about -- what about the alleged role of the older brother tamerlan. could lawyers perhaps ar...

A problematic child. im sure that jodi arias was suicidal and difficult within the family setting. >> judge jeanine: why are you so sure? >> ive again the family history. the fact that she had a difficult relationship with both her parents. didnt feel close with either one of them. i imagine she burned out both her parents. im sure they tried to help her. >> judge jeanine: does she is siblings? >> three or four, i think. >> how dom we havent heard from them? >> you will hear from them in the dea...

A problematic child. im sure that jodi arias was suicidal and difficult within the family setting. >> judge jeanine: why are you so sure? >> ive again the family history. the fact that she had a difficult relationship with both her parents. didnt feel close with either one of them. i imagine she burned out both her parents. im sure they tried to help her. >> judge jeanine: does she is siblings? >> three or four, i think. >> how dom we havent heard from them? >> you will hear from them in the dea...

A problematic child. im sure that jodi arias was suicidal and difficult within the family setting. >> judge jeanine: why are you so sure? >> ive again the family history. the fact that she had a difficult relationship with both her parents. didnt feel close with either one of them. i imagine she burned out both her parents. im sure they tried to help her. >> judge jeanine: does she is siblings? >> three or four, i think. >> how dom we havent heard from them? >> you will hear from them in the dea...

Rebekah. i know you think their claims are absurd. why? >> add suffered. first of all procedurally they make no sense. if they wanted to claim their crimes were related to the alcohol. they needed to bring that up properly in the criminal aspect of the cases. that could be possibly a mitigating factor in their sentencing. there are so many requirements alleged alcohol affected you while committing a crime. if they are claiming it had something to do with addictive behavior. its outrageous. they ...

Mitigating factor for the mass murder laelg alleged here where 16 people were murdered without provocation. harris: youre playing two roles for us today. youre prosecutor and defense of the youre also talking about a case that the prosecution which in this case is the united states, against sergeant bales has and in its case. tell me why you think it is solid or maybe not, what is might be missing? >> the allegations are here that he went to two different villages and opened fire on innocent peo...

People who are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder but however it is not in my opinion a mitigating factor when you deal with the murder of so many people. harris: youve given us the two sides of this case. if you need to take a quick drink ever water, go ahead. now i want to move onto something else. the u.s. military has not executed anyone since 1961. baless case meets the requirements based on what you just said for the military to consider putting him to death. but you know, dan, ...