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Already facing several felony charges, over a dozen but he was released on bond several months before dylan mcginnis was shot thanks to a group that helped post his bail bond. dylans mom pushing for a law to keep it from happening again. nicki sterling, his mother, joins me now. i am so sorry for your tragic loss. i hope some positive comes of this as you are trying to make a change that could essentially affect the entire nation from having to suffer like you have. tell us about this group that...

Little bit of research on this organization to find out how this offender was able to be bailed out and through that research we realized that there is no oversight to the offender being bailed out of jail and no accountability back to the bail-out project. once the defendants are bailed out of jail. we started working with our state legislators to propose a bill in january that will help or delay the bail-out project. what it will do is, it is going to prevent the bail project from bailing out ...

Wood in state prison because these feckless politicians refuse to remove themselves from this banner of tough on crime and rather have sentences options where judges and prosecutors are hamstrung and constrained and can give more reasonable sentences so this case is clearly exposing how good people can get caught up in the system and i listened to democrat politicians and have gone through republican politicians and begged themed and begged them to stop off the mandatory minimums. each one is an...

Jurors and revoked potters bail. she was taken into custody where she will await sentencing in february. as a first-time offender, she likely faces between 6 and 8 1/2 years in prison. joining us now, jonathan masson, who was a mentor to daunte wright. jonathan, thank you for joining us. youve spoken to us over the last year and i really appreciate your insight. whats your reaction to the verdict tonight? >> im very pleased with the -- you know, the verdict from the jury. like the judge told the...

February. as a first-time offender, she likely faces between 6 and 8 1/2 years in prison. joining us now, jonathan masson, a mentor to daunte wright. thank you for joining us. you have spoken to us over the last year. i really appreciate your insight. whats your reaction to the verdict tonight? >> im very pleased with the verdict from the jury. like the judge told them, they are heroes. this was the verdict that i know everybody in minneapolis was hoping for. the jury did come up with the right ...

Hung jury, then they got this instruction from the judge to go back and try harder. that is why the defense lawyers hate that reconstruction. you can see in this case that those fears proved quite true. there was obviously jurors that did not want to convict her, and over the course of the next day they gradually yielded to the majority. the question, i think, going forward for the court, is how to weigh this case in terms of sentencing. it is indeed an issue of culpable negligence. there is no ...

You clock 15 years. under the sentencing guidelines as a first offender around 7 years. the government is going to try to aggravating factors. one is the most obvious. she is a former police officer, she used her authority to commit this crime the second crime involved putting others in danger and not just push this up towards the 15 year limit. also shown great remorse. >> much was made about the makeup of the jury nine white, two asian women and one african-american woman. was that concern ove...

Recognize here that minnesota is a determinant jurisdiction in terms of sentencing which is to say that they have a framework by which he they look at the offenders criminal history. here it would be zero for kim potter and look at the severity of the offense as they come together and determine the range. here the range for kim potter who has no criminal history would be around seven years. it is unlikely she will get the top charge, 15 years. but victim impact statements are going to be importa...

Review follows March 23 murders at Anamosa prison