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Spinning the wheels, circling the wagons, moving on to travis' family, you better believe they will testify. i have never seen a more involved family and friends than travis alexander's family and friends. they are absolutely supporting the prosecution 100%. i would expect them -- plenty of testify. the prosecutor's problem is paring it down and choosing who to have testify and who not to testify. these will be very compelling witnesses and very difficult for jodi arias to reach her standard of mitigating or of mitigation by showing some of the factors that will outweigh the cruelty. i mean, t...

Publicity campaign and the american people have been given this impression that she was an innocent young woman who was the victim of a ravinous and insane italian legal system. what are the american people not necessarily being told or what are they not necessarily understanding about the case? >> well, i think the italian legal system is very, very complicated, very complex. there are three levels of each case has to pass through. there is an automatic appeal. cases are basically heard three different times by three different panels and judges and i think sometimes in the united states we as...

Again, the appeal process can go on and on. >> 16 years until it's very expensive. >> so jean casarez, that's an issue. i think a lot of death penalty advocates say, for heaven's sake, we keep these people alive forever. we've got to give them medical care. we've got to look after them. put them in protective custody at time it's. infinitely more difficult to keep them protected than just the death or the needle. the constitution right, once they hear from a jury and judge that they're condemned to death to an automatic appeal whether they want it or not, correct? >> that is exactly right. the...

Martha: the teenager's mother says he suffered from hypothermia but he is already improving greatly. that is some adventure that is really scary. bill: we have a couple of young guys that have some great stories to tell. we will keep falling back as well. first, a new twist in the 2004 murder conviction of a man accused of killing his wife and their unborn child. scott peterson come you remember that name of course. appealing the guilty verdict and death sentence he received for his crimes, saying not only is he innocent, but the high-profile nature of the case deprived him of the justice he b...

Scott peterson sentenced to death for killing his wife and unborn son now appealing his conviction eight years later. his attorney filing a document with the california supreme court. he claims he never got a fair trial because of all the media hype surrounding it. >> reporter: like all death row inmates scott peterson gets an automatic appeal. he claims overwhelming publicity deprived him of justice. the marina where the body was found, it became some of the prosecution's strongest evidence in the case. but the defense wanted it kept out arguing that particular dog had a dismal track record. ...