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Gideon C. Wesley A local man accused of abusing a child with autism was granted a pretrial diversion as part of a plea agreement reached Thursday in Pulaski Circuit Court. Gideon Clay Wesley, 28, of Somerset, had originally been indicted last February on one count of first-degree Criminal Abuse (Child 12 or Under). The charge stemmed from an investigation begun in November 2019 by Somerset Police after they were dispatched to Memorial School in reference to a student who had arrived with bruises. According to his arrest citation, Wesley told authorities that the child had knocked a gun rack o...

Handling of the case. that would have been a much more appropriate method. if he wanted to take action on full review after the military did what it was going to do, that would be one thing. for him to short-circuit it and say he also got involved in two other cases by pardons and one pretrial expressing the person should be let go, this is just not any more appropriate than it would be in a criminal trial in our normal federal system. it's just not how it should be. >> jill, thank you for joining me. jill wine-banks, nbc contributor. you know her as former watergate prosecutor, also former ge...

They went to a different continent, to new zealand to try to get something to stick. and it didn't stick. >> reporter: in the end, the judge agreed with the defense. pretrial he ruled that the prosecution could not use the new fangled dna analysis. a major setback. do you still have a case, absent that science? >> we still can do it based on the other evidence that we have. >> reporter: to be determined, as they say, setting the stage for nick hillary to, at last, have his day in court. the trial, finally, was about to get underway. >> i think that it has taken so long to find justice for garr...

Are the kind of decisions that the attention that's been put on would keep me up at night. him, especially when you have presidents, both republicans and >> that's mayor pete channelling democrats, who have been critical of him, can he get a a line from barack obama which was said to get deeply under fair trial in the united states under this current climate >> a defendant is entitled to it, sixth amendment, to a fair donald trump's skin back in tlec 2011 remember that? we have a lot of politics to cover this morning including trial. and what happens when the circus some brand new poll numbers...

Robin steinberg founded the bail project dedicated to help those who can't afford bail to stay out of prison. a brush with prison as a young woman led to alive of activism for topeka sam, sounder of the ladies of hope ministries, focusing on helping women in prisons and helping them get what they need out of it. she created hope house, offering women support and safety as they transition back into society. good to have both of you join the panel. robin, i want to talk to you about this idea of bail. any given night there are almost 500,000 people sitting pretrial, sitting in jail for the only ...