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Time plans to fight off charges that is he a child sex predator. today judge granted a defense request for the former penn state it assistant football coach allowing sandusky's legal time that he has histrionic personality disorder. that's a rare mental condition in which people typically seek attention often with sexually see duckive behavior. although this wasn't sexually seductive according to the allegations. this was predatory rape. the judge's ruling also opens the door for the prosecutors to force the coach to undergo their own mental exam. prosecutors say coach sandusky sexually assaul...

Beginning to end. and it was. >> even though polls showed three out of four people in wichita already believe the brothers to be guilty, the court denied a defense request for a change of venue as well as a request to have the brothers tried separately. >> jonathan carr was defended by a group of topeka lawyers who specialize in death penalty cases. from the outset, the defense wanted the jury to look past the mountain of evidence presented by the prosecution. >> my role today in this brief opening remark is to let you, the jury know, how jonathan carr is innocent of many of these charges. >> ...

mohammed is watching from neighboring lebanon, and he joins us live. good to see you. what can you tell us about the latest violence? >> well, syrian opposition activists told us today that they are begging the international community for their help, for their intervention, after this barbaric massacre, that's what they're calling it, that happened yesterday in the town in homs province. now, they described intense shelling, mortars raining down on the town, and then as you mentioned, they said the pro regime militias went in and started indiscriminantly slaughtering men, women, and ...

gomez say? >> he believed that ivens is distraught and that he's possibly suicidal. what is interesting about that though is that they would not comment on exactly why they believe that to be the case but obviously they have reason to believe that is indeed the case. they did search his home. they looked for his handgun. couldn't find it. at this point they are assuming he took his handgun with him. >> do they believe he's still in the los angeles area? >> not sure. we can tell you this is the third day of searching. he was last seen on thursday night by his wife as she was going to ...

stopped. there's also a third account by a family friend, reported in "the patriot-news" by cnn contributor sara ganim, suggesting mcqueary didn't even directly see the molestation. so, today, at this preliminary hearing for two of his bosses, mcqueary finally gave his account, in open court, on the record, under oath, and it was a powerful one. he said he saw sexual activity between jerry sandusky and the boy and he told superiors what he saw. "there's no question in my opinion mind that i conveyed to university officials that i saw jerry with a boy in the shower and that it was sev...