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More fall in the wake of the brutal beating by memphis police officers. like today, the city firebombed not-so-termination of three personnel. , tully, empties and lieutenant who drove them to the scene. also tonight, the police department revealed that a six, that a seventh officer had been, quote, relieved duty. as you know, i bet already been fired and charged with second degree murder. their specialized scorpion unit is now disbanded, and there could be more charges, and administrative chang...

Here. there is a first-degree murder statute in tennessee that is not charged here, and that is what the family wanted, but what is charged here is second-degree murder which is the knowing murder of a person which is 50 to 60 degrees in prison punishable, and there were other lesser options available to the prosecutors and they could have charged voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and lesser versions of statutes to killing another human being, and they settled on the second-degre...

Beating? but that aside what kind of charges can all of those people face, the girl who is impeding the poor victim shanquella robinson, the guys reporting, the friends were around house to what kind of charges can all these people face? >> there is a murder statute. that you can use again both the victims and the perpetrators are u.s. citizens they are no longer in mexico there up in the united states. the long arm of that extraterritorial statute there are certain conditions that have to be me...

What will it look like? >> i think thats right, katy. i think the racial animus which may not have been as relevant as evidence in this case, certainly relevant to their motive and their conduct, but maybe not relevant to the act of shooting him, will be more relevant in the federal case, because the federal statute is different. its not a murder statute under federal law. its a civil rights hate crimes based statute. so that racial animus, as you said, katy, becomes relevant. i imagine were goi...

0 men for hate crimes. i dont think it will change the resulting sentence, because the resulting sentence from the state conviction is going to be a very, very, very long time if not life for each of the three men. >> all right, everyone, big, big, day here, so lets reset what we know and where we are at the top of this hour. were following breaking news in georgia, where a jury just reached a verdict in the case of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. travis mcmichael, who pulled the...

Why would you be worried? >> right. so theres no doubt former attorneygeneral barr is smart and all those things. the question is does he have radical views on the president being above the law? were talking about a guy who handed him a 20-page mem oo ewhich makes rilridiculous argu it has to say the words the president is included in it to be encompassed within it. so theres a murder statute that says murder is illegal. doesnt say murder is illegal when the president commits it. so barr is sayi...

Campaigned for the job by handed him a 20-page memo ewhich ridiculous argument like it has to say the words the president is included in it to be encompassed within it. so theres a murder statute that says murder is illegal. doesnt say murder is illegal when the president commits it. so barr is saying the president could commit murder and not face a felony charge. look, ive seen all sorts of ridiculously talented people act ridiculously to try to get a position and that memo looks like that. and...

Child at any stage for the purposes of a murder statute. >> that itself not going to happen. but the state can consider that being an aggravated factor that she was pregnant to determine whether they want to pursue the death penalty. >> heres something we learned overnight the tones for christopher watts wanted to obtain dna swabs for his wife and children, isnt that standard? >> its standard with the defense they dont want to rely on what law enforcement said theyve checked in terms of dna. dn ...

Crime, there has to be some attachment to someones ethnic background or religious denomination, for example. and thats one of the things thats being alleged at this point. theyre trying to say that the victims are, for example -- i heard one individual, one gentleman say, theyre all jewish. theyre clearly all caucasian. it appears the perpetrators are all black. so all of these little components or elements start to spurn thought or consideration for, is this actually a hate crime? but separate ...

Things stand, most legal experts i spoke to do not believe the prosecution have established second degree murder. >> second degree murder is a very high standard in floridas law. as i looked -- as i looked at the law, the requirement for ill will, spite or depraved mind seems insurmountable, however, i think a skilled prosecutor can argue the facts of the case to establish ill will. i think the prosecution can argue spite. i dont have any problem with not being able to prove the depraved mind bu...