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Wro you would have to think, there is another film that is out there that deals with a colombian drug lord that was very popular. potentially, you know, maybe he wants a film to be made about himself to restore, resolve his legacy. a lot of good things have been said by people there about him being robin hood, giving to the community. who knows psychologically what he was thinking as far as what this could lead to. from a legal perspective, obviously, poppy, you know we tell people all the time from defense perspective, don't say anything to anyone at any time. so those are damning admissions ...

High bail, the videotape is going to corroborate that and they'll walk through. in the alternative, those who you see in the videotape who were engaged in shooting and who were hitting and everything else, well, they have some problems and they have some explaining to do. the issue then from hey, i did nothing to i was merely defending myself. >> the videotape is helpful from a defense perspective, and i'm sure as mel can tell you, it's helpful from a prosecution perspective, as well. >> all right. so, mel? your point of view. >> well, i'm sitting here listening to joey who i respect and adore...

Commentator and legal analyst mel robbins. good to see both of you. >> good to see you. >> okay. so we just saw some of the terrifying video from the scene as, you know, people were running for their lives. you know, trying to get cover. and other cases, people were beating up others and, you know, firing weapons. joey, as a defense attorney, what did you learn from that video? nine people dead. it would seem that it would be fairly easy to impose some charges? >> you know, i learned quite much, fredericka. if a picture's worth 1,000 words, you've got to believe a videotape is worth, 10,000, 2...

The testimony of aaccuser. however, this isn't even ten or 15 years ago when an accuser got the benefit of the doubt. there's been lots of rape cases in the news. we've had super stars and even had bill cosby accused. now when you hear a woman accusing somebody of rape, people start to ask questions. now we see here across examination and a slow methodical strategy to try and get to the truth of the matter. >> looking at this from the defense perspective, as karen was saying, we know some of the key testimony here. you have an accuser as we just heard explaining what she says happened to her. ...

Fight the fact that ferrell was running towards the officers, which we see in the dash cam video which was a key piece of evidence for the defense. let's watch it one more time real fast. >> get on the ground! get on the ground! >> running. [ gunfire ] >> there's a long pause before you hear the gunshots. the officer had to explain why he was running towards the officer. how important was that to the prosecution's case? >> it's very important. both sides could interpret it very differently. for the prosecution point, we see the arms and hands of ferrell. he has nothing on him at all. what's th...