Page 4 - Arbery Case News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> dana: we're awaiting a jury decision in the arbery case. the man killed in georgia. the jury has asked to watch a video. we don't know which one. also to listen to a 911 call made by one of the defendants gregory mcmichael. the jury will be coming back into the courtroom so stay tuned for that. we will not have a decision right away. clearly they are going to deliberate this for a little bit longer and look at the video and listen to this call. benjamin. >> benjamin: san francisco authorities are responding to a series of brazen smash and grab robberies. felony charges against nine people. ...

75% were caused by opioids. joining us now is attorney mark lanier who represented the two ohio counties in that case. thank you for being with us this morning. what does this mean for us? >> well, what it means is the pharmacies are on notice now that they've got to pay attention to the people getting these drugs and buying them. they can't have people come in and have five prescriptions for the same drug from five doctors and fill them all for cash without insurance on file, without at least checking into it and looking at the prescriptions carefully. >> benjamin: i want to put out something...

We no repeatism is a problem in the united states. the rate that people return to prison is 7 and 10 arrested within 5 years. 81% of prisoners released in 2012 were arrested within five years of are he lease and repeatism is a problem and focus on that. these prosecutors seem to be putting the perpetrators ahead of the victims, andy. >> yeah, and it -- it is not to say there is not a place for people in our criminal justice system who have the interest of criminals at heart when we have defense lawyers that are supposed to have the interests of their clients be paramount. they just don't belon...

Improve our system to remedy that history of racism. we don't even have a federal anti-lynching law on the books and we need to reform the prep pre-evp pre-emptory strike system. >> and so the defendants will be sentenced and we'll be on top of that of course. before they handed down this verdict, the jury rewatched the video of arbery's killing which i thought was an important moment. sort of gave us a window into the deliberations and what they were going through. but what did you make of that, that moment, and just how important was the video evidence in a case like this? i think it has to ...

And he definitely didn't deserve to lose his life in the way that he did. >> and lee, the defendants who have now been convicted of murder, they are also facing federal hate crime charges. what message does that send and what do you expect from that trial? do you still want to see that trial? >> we're certainly looking forward to the sentencing phase of this case. our understanding as explained to us by the prosecutors of georgia law is that each of these men are facing life sentences. the rest of their life in prison. we think that is appropriate. we're looking forward to the federal prosecut...