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Are things that are known now. it's know that they never got to be a physical confrontation. number two, that apparently officer miller felt it could become physical by virtue of taylor approaching him. now to holloway's point on the issue of the law, it turns into if the officer in fact is reasonably in belief that he's going to be emnantly threatened or harmed. >> then the officer who pulls out the taser. >> exactly. that hurts in a negative way because what you do is use this objectively reasonable point of view in the officer's position and the other officer apparently felt that a taser wa...

Ing aaggravateing nature and then in the second phase is the presentation of ing aaggravated and versus mitigating factors and there you hear the information from the defense perspective where they'll talk about the insanity defense again. or they'll talk about his history of not having a large criminal record or sometimes they'll bring in childhood abuses. those kinds of information and the jury's asked to balance and evaluate whether or not the mitigating factors outweigh or balance the mitigating factors and then the moral ultimate decision and then in colorado they do it where they have br...

Can be charged and proven as a crime of murder. >> and meanwhile, thinking about this from the defense of the police officer, go from that side of things kendall. how would defense attorney based on this video try to say that the officer was in fear for his life? i mean we see in the video where he is instructed, sam dubose, the look for his registration. goes in the golf box. nothing in there that would give the officer a type of trepidation or type of fear of a concealed weapon or anything like that. but what would you say from a defense perspective that the, you know officer can say he fear...

Again, we're talking about two to seven years on one charge, another concurrent year on the second charge but with good behavior, with new york's prison sentencing laws, her attorney is saying she could ultimately with good behavior end up serving something more like two to four years behind bars, but, again she will have to return to court. the judge has ordered a presentencing investigation where he'll look into the facts of this case and also another term in the deal here, perhaps the most important term, randi, is that it forces joyce mitchell to cooperate with the ongoing investigation th...

That underlie the ability to have account of law enforcement. it undermines the ability to get access to information needed to hold law enforcement responsible. it allows the community to be substantively involved in the administration of law enforcement in their communities. that's the long-term battle that we're fighting to address the structural issues that make this problem such an issue in baltimore. >> john, i want to get a police perspective. how does this affect the officers especially when a fellow officer is indicted on such drastic charges. >> quite drastically. the secrecy surround...