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Many many hours if they're doing their job right in that jury room assessing the life the value of that man's life in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. and here's the hard part. for anybody who needs the primer on the death penalty and what aggravators and mitigateors are like they list all the good things about this guy and they list out all the bad things about this guy and the crime. and then the jury is left with no scientific formula to do this sort of strange balancing act. but they're pretty much allowed to do what they want. it's not what's heavier, what's lighter, what's wo...

Necessarily get the death sentence, right? >> that's absolutely right, wolf. what happens is in our system of justice, in order to get the death penalty, of course the jury has to apply it. it doesn't come from a judge. and that jury has to be unanimous in its decision. we should also note that that jury that sits there is death penalty qualified. what does that mean? it means that every member of that jury has looked the judge in the eye and those attorneys and has said under the right set of circumstances, i could apply. not, i will apply, or with certainty i believe i should apply. but if y...

Why. who is tsarnaev? what was his background? where does he come from? what if anything did his brother really have to do with him? i suspect as we move forward, we'll learn a lot about who he is and placing into context what he did. will it matter? that's the opening question. it was a heinous act committed against this country and boston in particular. that's what the defense will do to attempt to spare his life. >> as far as these 30 counts, you don't expect acquittal on any of the 30? you think he'll be found guilty on all 30? his own defense attorneys acknowledge he was there, he was the...