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Is for experts who we will be calling today who provided the core of the new evidence before the district court. what is the new evidence that proves not merely that this was an unfair trial, but that innocent men were convicted? and with that ill turn to my partner don morgan. >> good morning. im going to take a minute or two here just to review some of the dna evidence that has recently surfaced in the case. first, a little background. in 2001, arkansas, like a lot of other states passed a sta...

Southern methodist university. he says the hospital misinterpreted it because marlise cant be brought back to life. >> i dont see how we can use a provision of the law that talks about treating or not treating a patient in a case where we really dont have a patient. >> attorneys for the family reveal that despite a heartbeat, the fetus inside marlise is distinctly abnormal, saying "even at this early stage, the lower extremities are deformed to the extent that the gender cannot be determined." a...

The hospital misinterpreted it, because marlise cant be brought back to life. >> i dont see how we can use a provision of the law that talks about treating or not treating a patient in a case where we really dont have a patient. >> attorneys for the family revealed that despite a heart beat, the fetus inside marlise is distinctly abnormal, saying "even at this early stage, the lower extremities are deformed to the extent that the gender cannot be determined." after more than two months, a judge ...

Senate transportation committee asking questions about the lane closures on the george washington bridge. after starting that inquiry, they say they will hold off at least for the moment while new jerseys new u.s. attorney also looks into the lane closures. and whether any federal laws were broken. at the same time, were not sure where things stand in terms of state law, because while there is a very clear state statute governing the misuse of public assets for private or political purposes, wel...

Closures on the george washington bridge. after starting that inquiry, they say they will hold off at least for the moment while new jerseys new u.s. attorney also looks into the lane closures. at the same time, were not sure where things stand in terms of state law, because while there is a very clear state statute governing the misuse of public assets for private or political purposes, well, the governors appointee to be the new attorney general of new jersey was due to have his confirmation t...

On you. >> look what the justice department did to ted stevens. >> ted stevens is the perfect example. ted stevens had to die for people to go back to, oh, wait a second, we were overzealous. i will give eric holder credit on this. he went back and some of the excesses and some of the abuses of the bush justice department, some of the overreaching, he took care of some of them. and some of my friends were told, hey, were sorry. we apologize. move on. in this case with bob mcdonnell, this -- they...

A state statute allows defendants who win their cases to recoup their legal costs. next, $546. thats how much a patient was charged for a bag of salt water for an i.v. thats 200 times more than it cost to make the six liters of water and 54-grams of salt. finally, 25,000. thats the number of students thats the number of students who took the admission test for the university of liberia and failed. that means there will be no freshman class this fall. what was on the test that all 25,000 people w...

Proposition 8 pulled up the case and said we want to be the ones defending it. they wouldnt be the normal parties to do that. it sound like here what the court is going to do is say that group did not have standing. weve never before uphold the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to. we decline to do so for the first time here. because the petitioners have not satisfied their burden to demonstration standing to appea...

Legal remedies. what the supreme court is saying today, we have never upheld the standing of a private part tea to defend a constitutional of a state statute if state officials dont choose to do so. the ninth circuit opinion is vacated and the parties are told they never had a right to appeal. that leaves us with the district courts decision. of that was from judge walker. a bit of controversy about him and interest he may have had in this particular decision. this was a lot of back and forth ab...

Defend constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to, we decline to do so for the first time here because petitioners have not satisfied their burden to demonstrate standing to appeal the judgment of district court, ninth circuit, was without jurisdiction to consider the appeal. judgment of ninth circuit is vacated, the case is remanned with instructions to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. short answer to that, the supreme court kicked it back to the lo...