Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20151217 06:32:00 :

CNN Anderson Cooper 360 December 17, 2015 06:32:00

effect here, in these next trials here, and we'll start either seeing hung juries or acquittals on these next couple of officers that will be going against -- >> a lot of it, though, danny, depends on the jury. the makeup of the jury who they happen to get. it's a roll of the dice anytime you put a case in front of a jury. it does seem like a lot of these other cases, though, would have depended on porter's testimony and they clearly usually tried the case they think is the easiest to try first. no? >> maybe not. this may have been a real -- a level of strategy that may end up backfiring. by trying porter first, if he offered the most information and the most potential to turn on his brother officers, then if you get an acquittal or a conviction, he cannot claim the fifth amendment, and he can -- you can force him on the stand to testify. however, with a mistrial, he is still a charged defendant, and he can invoke that fifth amendment. now the prosecutors don't have the benefit of porter as a witness against the subsequent officers. so while the prosecution had hoped the dominos would fall with porter, this unexpected mistrial means the dominos, if

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