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Morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. You can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook. Here are some of the our featured programs for this week on the cspan networks. On book tv, saturday at 10 00 p. M. Eastern author peter wall wallison says the housing crisis could happen again opinion direct toror of the Earth Institute. Saturday morning at 10 30 eastern a discussion on the last major speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther king jr. Sunday afternoon at 4 00, the...

We will see showers here pretty soon. Meanwhile it is mile. We have retain the warmth from yesterday because of the clouds, overnight, south southeasterly wind at 8 miles an hour. We will see flag blowing right there. 6 25 is our sunrise time. We will get a high of 65 degrees today occasional showers heavier rain depending on where you live and then 48 degrees is the overnight the low tonight, so that takes you through your tuesday, but bob kelly is here and he is feeling seasonal allergies. The...

He left the law and joined as infantry officer. He was deployed to iraq and also to a provinnal reinstruction team. After his military career, senator cotton served briefly in the private sector and was then elected to the u. S. House of representatives in 2012. Last year, he was elected to serve in the United States senate and now serves in committees of banks, intelligence and Armed Services where hes chairman of the committee on air land. In his maiden speech on the senate floor last week, he...

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She will present the District Attorneys Office on the review of San Francisco rates for Domestic Violence. We flipped a coin. Have you to be here this evening in front of of these commissions to talk a little bit about our work in the District Attorneys Office as it relates to Domestic Violence. As many of you know we have a vertical Domestic Violence unit as it relates to misdemeanor and felony prosecution. Domestic violence notoriously difficult to prosecute requires building meaningful, deep ...

For us, we know from having done this work with lowercase lows that when we have the opportunity to speak to generally the woman but the victim in the case and build that relationship through an advocate, an investigator or an attorney we see much higher interest in prosecution, and a much High Conviction rate as a result of that. Commissioner shorter. It in clarify for those watching from home who jean is . Not everyone knows. So you can be on tv too. Good evening my name is jean roland,managin...

In Domestic Violence by its nature is committed by a person that they deeply loved. We are asked to navigate to personal relationships. One of the huge challenges we face are delays in bringing cases to trial. We have three attorneys. We have to finish one trial before we can begin the next. We have extended exposure to their batterer and maybe change your mind about wanting to proceed. With changes in the law it is extremely difficult for us to continue with the prosecution without evicting tha...

With different Computer Systems and Different Department are on fiscal years versus calendar years and recognizing cases dont move easily through a year to year basis and keep track of that so thank you to all of the agencies involved. We could not have done this without the department and commission on the status of women. There are staff and they support this work everyday. Dont go anywhere. The commissioner has a question for you. I just wanted my take away from that really comprehensive pres...

Very difficult to maintain that. As we know it is not just the perpetrators who continue to have power and control over the victims but there are families and relatives out there for the defendants who also apply a lot of pressure on the victims. I think that one of the most crucial points in prosecuting dv cases is when the victim begins to turn away from us, the prosecution. I honestly believe t we need more resources because at that point in time it is not a matter of us letting these cases g...

Requires that we contact every single victim personally and we do that the attorney. Jean goes to the file, gets a round of calls, she assigns them to the attorney, they give around calls, and we try to maintain the level of communication with the victim and bring them in to the victim advocates who will be to the victim either at the hall of justice or other places, often in peoples homes or in another safe place that they feel is appropriate. We really try to be accessible and available to the...