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Contraband contraband. she was able to avoid any additional charges for promoting prison contraband conspiracy to commit the murder of her husband lyle mitchell and any sexually related charges. criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor tom kniff is here to break it down. why do you think she accepted the deal? >> it's the carrot and the stick. she would get convicted only of the d felony. two and a third to seven years which she appears to have agreed to and that's an indeterminate sentence in new york meaning at the con clugts of the minimum period she will be eligible for parole. it i...

Jenna. jenna: we'll see what revisions look like in couple weeks. james, thank you. all right. >> you initer have you had them. you asked questions. you do an assessment. >> when you're up tear viewing you're not talking right?. >> mr. martinez -- >> yes or no the my question are you talking yes or no? >> mr. martinez are you angry at me? ma'am, is that relevant to you? is that important to you. >> ladies and gentlemen, please refrain from laughing in the courtroom. jon: judge sherry stevens there responding to what happened when the prosecutor in the jodi arias murder trial went after a key d...

I want to put it up on the screen. it is defined as an act intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, to influence a policy of a government by intimidation or coercion or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination for kidnapping. how in the world is the fort hood shooting not domestic terrorism? tom? >> yeah, one word, gregg, politics. if you look at the political climate in 2 ao 09 whe 2009 when the fort hood massacre occurred, we had president obama withdrawing the combat troops from iraq which was one of his promises in his campaign. war on terror,...

I want to play a sound byte from the head of the family research council, here it is. >> because they disagree with our position on marriage and certain religious issues have labeled us a hate group. that gives license to lunatics like this to come in with a gun and shoot innocent people. gregg: frc is allegedly a hate group and yet an attack on it because of their beliefs is not a hate crime? >> tom is right, however the issue is whether the act is influenced by hatred, bigotry or it's influenced by the individual's own personal experiences, their crazed experience and their frustrations, and...

Regarding who should get the dog. the original owner came forward but rescuers don't think he should get the dog back. gregg: new questions about the government's standard of what qualifies as a hate crime. attorney general eric holder calling the shooting earlier this month at a sikh temple in wisconsin a hate crime, while other recent high profile shootings do not meet that sthapb ard, like the family research shooting in washington on tuesday and the fort hood shooting. here is press secretary jay carney. >> violence of that kind has no place in our society: this goes to the greater discuss...