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We re being told top of the hour here, 3:00 eastern. i would imagine it s somewhere between the two. let me bring you back ari, into the conversation. we heard ronan use two legal terms aggravating and mitigating. what do those terms mean? those are the different directions you can go with regard to penalty. the guilt phase is over. this is a convicted murderer. the only questions that the jury is looking at in the penalty phase is are there things about these murders that make them so bad it should be a worse penalty or somehow mitigated, less bad, essentially, that he might be spared that ultimate punishment but still given a life sentence that is statutorily set, this is to say there is no way he ll ever be out of prison for in any legal reason whatsoever. they balance those two factors as ronan farrow said from boston, this is a decision that judges do not push jurors on. they want the jurors to reach their own decision together. if they decide, for example, ....

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