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She drove him to soccer practice and then drove home and shot the daughter in the face. she was army sergeant and her husband was deployed. her attorneys are pleading insanity. she has been on medicine for years and in 2009 hospitalized for nine months. but prosecution says there is a difference between mental illness and legal insanity. she is quoted saying the three-day gun wait will postpone her massacre. she could be facing life in prison or committed to a mental

We will learn a lot from this. napolitano we will only know what is in the notebook good he pleads insanity. if he does, in colorado, he does not have to prove he is insane. the state has to prove he is sane. they would be entitled to the same materials that his lawyers and doctors have, one of which would be the note back. the reason the state wanted the note book ahead of time, is to preempt him from pleading insanity because the state has reason to believe, from other sources, the notebook shows a plan to commit this. they would argue to a jury, anyone that could plan something this detaile...

We are going to ask attorney and former prosecutor elliot. do they have a case here? >> i think this is completely frivolous. >> why? >> because life is full of scary moments. we don't have to lawyer up every time we experience one. i am in favor of criminal prosecution of the pilot. he's going prosecuted been indicted facing 20-years in prison. i am in favor of the faa looking at the airlines to make sure they do everything they are required to do to make sure they are physically able to do. >> did they? >> they are required to have two physical exams every year. by all accounts he did have t...

Interest in this case have their questions answered. so we're committed to giving them those answers. what we have to still finish investigation and then decide in what forum that will occur. >> reporter: complicating things, pleading self-defense is like pleading insanity. it is affirmative defense and raises the threshold and burden on the police and the prosecutors to then prove that person is not telling the whole truth. bill: thank you for that. phil keating live near the scene there, sanford, florida, this morning. martha: the supreme court is zeroing in on whether the health care law sa...

Face. some question the wisdom of it. ray in iowa says i bet my house he'll say something on sunday with chris wallace that they'll use against him. that obviously is something his attorneys, you would think would worry about and shut him up but good luck shrug blago up. jim says he would be better pleading insanity. somebody compared him to forrest gump, saying he's the forrest gump of politics and they can see him sitting there saying [ bleep ]ing life is like a [ bleep ]ing box of [ bleep ]ing chocolates. we have a informal poll or whether rod blagojevich's hair is better on mine. thank you...