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Many many hours if they're doing their job right in that jury room assessing the life the value of that man's life in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. and here's the hard part. for anybody who needs the primer on the death penalty and what aggravators and mitigateors are like they list all the good things about this guy and they list out all the bad things about this guy and the crime. and then the jury is left with no scientific formula to do this sort of strange balancing act. but they're pretty much allowed to do what they want. it's not what's heavier, what's lighter, what's wo...

Is. mitigators are things that could save his life. aggravators are things so awful that he needs to die. let me read out the ones in this case. in mitt grayigateoreors did he have the capacity to understand the conduct. was he under duress? did he have minor participation? were there equally culpable defendants in the crime? the brother. did he have a prior criminal record? in this case no he did not. number eight. other factors. this is basically an open basket to throw in anything in his background. did he have a good school record? was he nice? did he have lots of friends? did he go to sch...

Be captured. not offer this defendant much sympathy at all. if it's a close call were you part of the scheme did you cause the officer's can death? i think they're going with the prosecution. they did in this case. i expect the next 13 or so to be guilty. i don't think the defense is worried about convictions. they're worried about the death penalty. >> we a wait the other 13. so far 17 of 17 guilty. before i bring in ashleigh banfield the final question to you. we'll go through aggravators and mitigators with ashleigh. judy clark, tsarnaev's lawyer will try to make this case he deserves sympa...

After 90 minutes with tamerlan and dzhokhar he managed to escape. i should mention ashleigh 17 of these 30 were death penalty eligible. they're all included in what we've seen. he's found guilty on 17 of 17 of death penalty eligible charges count can s count. cash ashleigh the key thing is mitigators and aggravators. a lot of people say what exactly is that? why does that matter so much? what a will be presented by both sides here? >> this is the work judy clark has cut out for her now that we know what the first 17 verdicts are regarding death penalty. here's the u.s. code title 18 part 2, ch...

Imprisonment issue. this is a second degree felony which carries 15 years. this is serious. there are aggravators, if you could show it was coercive, forceable, that could aggravate it to make it 30 years. this is a huge, huge deal. >> the final point, the future here in terms of -- >> florida state has a policy, if you're charged with a felony, unless there are extraordinary circumstances you're not allowed to play. if he is charged today it would be highly unlikely you'd see him on the field this season. >> just charged. does not mean that you'll be found guilty of a crime. >> great point, c...