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Prior injury and his own self-inflicted behavior that caused the injuries, that then works as defendense for all the officers in their trial. >> a judge declared a mistrial in the case of officer william porter, first officer to be tried. what kind of effect does that have on the other cases? >> well, it could be a really big effect. based on the fact that there were reports that the prosecutors had planned to use officer porter to testify for the prosecution in these other trials. they were hoping that either they would get a conviction and flip him and turn him to be a pr prosecution witness...

January 11th. brianna? >> miguel, thanks. i want to bring in former l.a. prosecutor lonnie combs. tell us how this can affect the prosecution? >> well, the prosecution is going to tell you that this really has no effect on the case. but the big question for the jury is going to be how did he die? what caused this injury? can we blame the causation on the action of the officers and based on these filings by the defense attorneys, we can see very clearly the way they're going to try and defend this. they're going to say, look, he was already injured before. he had this prior back injury. and p...

The type of behavior. and in this case, there's an argument that what he did with these women, that's been alleged, is very similar over and over again. unique behavior. so that's one thing that the prosecution might allege. another thing, remember the big issue is going to come down is was this consensual or not? that's what mr. cosby has been saying. he said before this was a consensual relationship. they had a social dating relationship and this incident was a consensual sexual incident. so perhaps the prosecution will argue and say, look, we should be able to put in the prior bad acts to s...

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walk but a walk across niagara falls on a really, really skinny wire? >> good gracious. >> you betcha. got that story and a whole lot more, coming up this hour on cnn. >> oh, that's a beautiful shot, isn't it? >> hopefully he'll do it when there's broad daylight. >> do you think he's awake right now doing one of these? calm the jitters. >> especially because he will be tethered and he's not used to being tethered. >> the advice might be lay off the caffeine this morning. >> good advice. >> welcome to "early start," nice to have you with us, i'm ashleigh banfield. >> and i'm zoraida s...