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"taking the stand." really this is the moment for youth of baltimore? >> if you're the prosecutor you have to be concerned about doing justice for everybody, not just for the victim, not just for the family of the victim not just for the youth of baltimore but also for the accused, for the policemen who have been accused and who may have been scapegoated. look i understand what she wanted to try to quell the riots. she did a good job doing that. you can't sacrifice individual defendants to the need to stop riots. imagine jurors who are going to sit now in baltimore and say if we acquit these d...

Justice on behalf of freddie gray. to those that are angry, hurt, or have their own experiences of injustice at the hands of police officers i urge you to channel the energy peacefully as we prosecute this case. to the youth of this city, i will seek justice on your behalf. this is a moment this is your moment. >> really? alan dershowitz is a harvard law professor emeritus and author of "taking the stand." really this is the moment for youth of baltimore? >> if you're the prosecutor you have to be concerned about doing justice for everybody, not just for the victim, not just for the family of ...

My artists ever. >> i agree with that. >> we are a defender of artists' rights. that's our sole mission as financers of independent feature film. >> a year ago i wrote in my book "taking the stand" the greatest danger to the first amendment will come frin the future from self-censorship. i worry about self-censorship from islamic extremists. this is only a coming attraction from what we will get from iran. this dictator managed to get what no american president can do, censor a film because of its conte content. if you try to senscensor, we wi fight back. >> i'm coming up against a hard break ...

Foxholes? >> i didn't pray. i discovered that for me the answer was not up there. i lad to figure out what to do on the airplane. i didn't want to be an agnostic. i just discovered that i was an agnostic on that airplane because it just didn't naturally come to me to pray. >> professor, we have a minute left between us. speak to me about the litigation that's soon to unfold relative to this flight. >> you know, as i write in my book, "taking the stand," sometimes tlb cases without legal ramifications. you need a court that is a body of evidence to prove what happened. if they don't find the pl...

She has a reputation for that. the people of florida ought to get smart and get rid of her, get a decent prosecutor in there and then they can get convictions and appropriate charges in these case. she is also i think going to -- i think she may also lose her appeal on the attempted murder case. it's interesting that the intent required for attempted murder is actually higher than the intent required for actual murder. in my book "taking the stand" i describe a case where one of my clients once shot somebody, thinking he was alive but tushed out he was dead and they equipmented him of attempte...