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Defense attorneys will present mitigating factors, mitigating evidence as to why jodi arias' life should be spared. if the jury does not find that there was extreme cruelty in the case, then what happens is that it goes directly to the judge, and she has two options. she can either sentence jodi arias to 25 years to life or life without the possibility of release at any future time, pier >> casey, this is amazing interview that she gave afterwards when she said she would prefer to be given the death penalty. and she would rather die than face life imprisonment, and what would you make of that?...

Life in prison. negotiation. she is brilliant at that. the other thing, if negotiations fail is to research the life of your client in such a way that a jury will not impose the death penalty. mitigating evidence. yes, they're guilty of this crime. but you have to see them as a complete person. you have to see the influences that formed them. those are the two general categories. >> one thing i read that's fascinating is her first step convincing her clients that they can have a life in prison. that there's a reason to live in a tiny cell for the rest of their lives. that's something they shou...

You know, alphabet soup clearances. and he knew. he would have been briefed on it the first day. you can only conclude unless he produces mitigating evidence, you can only conclude this this was one more cover-up within the web of cover-ups the white house has produced about this. and by the way, i'm still waiting for president obama to call this an act of islamist terror. he won't because his whole narrative is he's mr. tough guy on al-qaeda, al-qaeda's broken. here we are four years later. at the end of the bush administration for all its faults, al-qaeda was on the ropes. al-qaeda is back b...

Us. first, start with your reporting and tell us if there are any updates today. >> for months, years, there have been investigations into the trump organization, the financial dealings in new york, and they seem to be coming to a head now. today was the final deadline, end of day today, to present any sort of mitigating evidence to not have charges brought against the company and our sources indicate the cfo allen weisselberg could face charges as soon as later this week. a two-pronged effort here. one the trump corporation as a whole and then weisselberg in particular. prosecutors in new yor...

For that code that we consider to be inviolate, astounds me. david: by the way, the colonel's name is jeffrey nance. i'm wondering what do you think was going on? you can't get inside somebody else's head, but he did mention president trump's comments about bergdahl, suggesting there might be mitigating evidence involving those comments. did that play a role in his sentencing, such as it was? >> that could only play a role if it affected nance in the term that it was undue command influence, but nance had already said even before he was adjudicating the actual sentence that he was unpersuaded ...