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Perspective. >> reporter: van dyke's lawyer says he was not surprised by the verdict and plans to appeal. >> if police officers think that they can never fire against somebody that is acting the way laquan mcdonald did when they're 12 feet away from them, i think that what we are going to have is police officers are going to become security guards. >> reporter: but for laquan mcdonald's family, they hope this verdict will finally help bring them some closure. >> this trial today did two things. it gave us justice, of which we seek, and it also set a precedent across this country. >> reporter: ...

Police officers are going to become security guards. >> reporter: for the family, they hope the verdict will help bring them closure. >> this trial today did two things again, it gave us justice of which we seek and also set a precedent across the country. >> reporter: van dyke faces 20 years in prison for second degree murder, 6 to 30 years for each of the 16 aggravated battery convictions. he is scheduled back in court october 31st. ryan young, cnn, chicago. >> adam, thank you for being here. this is a case so many people watched. i know you said in a recent piece that this should be a momen...

That what we are going to have is police officers are going to become security guards. >> reporter: for mcdonald's family, they hope this verdict will finally help bring them some closure. >> this trial today did two things. again, it gave us justice, of which we seek, and it also set a precedent across this country. >> reporter: van dyke faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for second degree murder and 6 to 30 years for each of the 16 aggravated battery convictions. he is scheduled back in court october 31st. ryan young, cnn, chicago. >> coming up, an international mystery. the world's top c...

Aggravated battery convictions. he is scheduled back in court october 31st. ryan young, cnn, chicago. legal analyst joey jackson with us now, based on what you saw, what happened, what do you prognosticate his sentence would be? >> you know, good morning to you, i think the judge certainly has to serve -- has to serve him up with a significant sentence. why do i say that? number one, obviously, a purpose of sentencing is punishment. and he needs to be punished for that. i think we all saw the video, and i think we all had a reaction that we had to the video, that it was not necessary. number...

And every single time you come back you get frustrated. we go through the same cycle again -- hold on a minute. we go through the same cycle to readjust you back into the way we do things. you get angry because you are not in a certain cell, right? put your eyebrow down. it's the truth. i'm just telling you your life. you end up in the restraint chair because you're doing something you have no business, cutting your arms. right? so i don't know, you playing your game? >> please let me have a chance. >> i'm not the deciding factor. we're done. got it? good. >> listen, sergeant -- >> got it. >> ...