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welcome to "cnn tonight." i'm jake tapper. and tonight we're less than a month, 27 days, away from one of the weirdest and least predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what's happening now and ending on election day, november 8th, is not typical. it's not. as of now -- it's not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. no. it's more like a sharknado. now, typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins, feeling good because things are bad. with high inflation and fears o...

predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what is happening now and ending on election day november 8th is not typical, it is not. as of now, it is not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. now it is more like a shark nato. typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances. to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins. feeling good because things are bad. high inflation, fears of a recession, voters are inclined to hold the party in power. right now, that is democrats. they are responsible and accountable. phrases a...

The latest appeal cites reporting by Mississippi Today and the claim that one of the jurors who convicted Shelby was related to little Bryan.

To 30 to 60 years in prison. >> if there was a new trial and some of these things were addressed, the jury would have a hard time not having reasonable doubt. >> c. j.'s new attorney, jason applied for conviction relief in county court, arguing that cj rice had ineffective counsel. the same judge who had presided over c. j. rice's trial heard the appeal and he rejected it. see derisive story, which i tell in the new issue of the atlantic magazine, is important because of how unusual it is not. a poor kid with no means and an incompetent court appointed lawyer. the assembly line of the criminal...

Into evidence of him lying, asking the witness, quote, today is the first day that you got in front of anybody other than the defense attorney and told them about where c.j. was. sanjay weaver also inexplicably called someone who was not with c.j. at the time of the crime as an ally witness. it all made c.j. look guilty. we can't ask sanjay weaver about any of this. she passed away in 2019. c.j. was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. >> if there were a new trial and some of these things were addressed, the jury would have a hard time not having a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: c.j.'s new a...