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Criminal law. >> was this your first murder trial? >> it was. i did a battery criminal defense case right out of law case. other than that, this is basically my first criminal defense case. >> curtis was taking a huge gamble. on the other hand, she was broke, he didn't have a lot of options. >> cory died of massive liver disease. >> in his opening remarks, he said the state hadn't presented any evidence of murder for one reason, there was no murder. >> prove to you that she died as a result of an acute sudden on set condition brought on by her alcoholism. >> one of the defense's key goals was ...

>> curtis lovelace was putting his hands in the life of his new attorney who took on the defense for free, had more than 20 years of experience, just not in criminal law. trial? was this your first murder trial? >> it was. i did a battery criminal defense case right out of law case. other than that, this is basically my first criminal ot than that, this was my first criminal defense case. >> curtis was taking a huge gamble. on the other hand, since he was broke, he didn't have a lot of options. >> cory died of massive bruises. >> in his opening remarks they said they hadn't presented any evide...

We told the judge we weren't going to talk. >> curtis lovelace was putting his hands in the life of his new attorney who took on the defense for free, had more than 20 years of experience, just not in criminal law. >> was this your first murder trial? >> it was. i did a battery criminal defense case right out of law case. was. did a battery criminal defense case right out of law school, but other than that, this was my first murder case. >> he didn't have a lot of options. >> cory died of massive -- >> in his remarks he said he hadn't presented any evidence of murder for a reason. there was no...

Or another. no justice thinks every precedent is there for eternity. however, i think it's impossible to know at this point what judge kavanaugh would do. he was in a lower court before. you don't have his practice of precedent. and really i think the key fifth vote to look at here and is going to be for this coming term and going forward is chief justice roberts and his views on precedent, i think do clearly show he's not someone who wants to go around willy-nilly overturning things. so i think he's the person you need to be looking at even closer. >> wasn't roberts part of the majority that ...

Like kavanaugh and turn them into sort of gardner of being there where they say yes, charles, roe v wade is an old case, it's a case in the books. it's a law law case. everyone says, wow, okay. colin says, that's very reassuring. it's all a rather weird exercise where we do this. quite frankly, if this is what confirmation hearings are going to be about, why do them? they're now just basically there for the senators and we learn nothing, because the senate has taken this ginsberg rule where the rule says the nominees don't have to discuss cases that come before them and they have ripped out vi...