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Fair, is it? >> it's not fair. but those artists did studies. when you say he is likely to commit another crime because he is male, nobody objects to that. it's just the same as a comparison. >> reporter: brain dwayne buck has one last chance to fight his death penalty sentence. a texas appeals court will decide any day the summer if he gets another shot in the courtroom. >> the federal government time we hear anything from the court is next wednesday. we don't know if there will be a decision. we want to talk to bruce watkins, he jones us from skype and our senior legal analyst, jeff, let me ...

Males when they commit the same crimes. even though the professor was naive enough to explicitly mention race the reality is that we have been implicitly using race as a factor for a very long time. >> jeff, what they're saying in not granting a new hearing is that this guy was a defense witness and that makes some sort of a difference? >> not. the jury hear what is the injury hears regardless of who is putting forth the witness. the other factor here is texas has an unusual death penalty law in that the issue of future dangerousness is important. unfortunately, that law leads to all sorts of ...

>> it is not fair but those are the statistical studies, but when you say is likely to commit another crime because he's male, nobody objects to that. that's the same level of comparison. >> reporter: dwayne buck has one last chance to fight his death penalty sentence, a texas appeals court will decide any day this summer if he gets another shot in the courtroom. the next time we'll hear anything from the texas court of criminal appeals is next wednesday but we don't know if there will be decision in the case. i want to talk more about it with boyce wilkins. he joins us by skype and jeffrey ...

Very long time. >> jeff, what they're saying in not granting a new hearing is that this guy was a defense witness and that makes some sort of a difference? >> not. the jury hear what is the jury hears regardless of who is putting forth the witness. the other factor here is texas has an unusual death penalty law in that the issue of future dangerousness is important. unfortunately, that law leads to all sorts of quackery. the idea -- the legal system has a hard enough time telling people, determining what happened in the past. the idea that you can put a psychologist on and predict future dange...

>> not. the jury hear what is the injury hears regardless of who is putting forth the witness. the other factor here is texas has an unusual death penalty law in that the issue of future dangerousness is important. unfortunately, that law leads to all sorts of quackery. the legal system has a hard enough time telling people, determining what happened in the past. the idea that you can put a psychologist on and predict future dangerousness is just absurd. >> it's like that movie about future crime, you are fighting future crime. >> exactly. and quijano is not the only psychologist who has got f...