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congressman byron donald. plus, the gut wrenching words of the a witness who watched as a gas station owner in south carolina chased down a 14-year-old and shot him in the back, quote, everyones getting trigger happy. the shooter says he thought the teenager was shoplifting. he wasnt. now the gas station owner is facing charges, his store is in ruins after being vandalized by protesters and another community is in mourning. we begin with one of those rare days on capitol hill where...

85%, 85 of them, 60% were kids of color. how does race play into a prosecution like this one? wasnt a police officer, but do you think that there will be questions of racial profiling brought up here? >> its a great question. so i prosecuted just three blocks from where were sitting at the d.c. u.s. attorneys office where i was chief of homicide, tried lots of murder cases including self-defense cases. the reality of prosecuting cases here in washington, d.c., is race typically permeated cases i...

The shooting of a 16-year-old Black boy who turned up at the wrong house while looking for his brothers has his family calling for justice.

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The suspect accused of stabbing a 17-year-old boy to death and injuring four others while they were tubing in a Wisconsin river Saturday appeared in criminal court Monday, charged with

Amid a nationwide rise in homicides, a new study has found that "stand your ground" laws -- which allow people to respond to threats with potentially lethal force without fear

Bygon era, how important is it they get changed so jury instructions dont include antiquated laws? >> it is critical. you know, this was a law that came into existence to enable white people to deputize themselves to return black people to slavery. thats the history of this law. frankly, the history of slavely -- slavery is part of why weve had a growth in permitting these rampant self-defense cases. so we do need people to get actively engaged and also to educate themselves. these laws arent ke...

>> yeah, i mean lawyers talk about the csi effect where jurors are accustomed to watching these crime scene shows and expecting like the satellite footage to solve the case for them. im wondering now in these -- what would be extremely thorny self-defense cases if theyre not going to come to the expectation that well have video from 100 angles and slow motion break downs and reproductions. the bottom line here for both cases, we should be acknowledging or celebrating rationale juror behavior. th...

The headline alongside Saturday’s front-page New York Times “news analysis,” “How the Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse Shows the Burden for the Prosecution in Self-Defense Cases,”  demonstrated the Times joining the rest of the press in lamenting the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse of homicide charges during anti-police riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020.

The headline alongside Saturday’s front-page New York Times “news analysis,” “How the Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse Shows the Burden for the Prosecution in Self-Defense Cases,”  demonstrated the Times joining the rest of the press in lamenting the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse of homicide charges during anti-police riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020.