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This? >> no, come on, look, at the end of the day, just in looking at the video itself, i mean, you may not want to go for first degree murder, but then you've got assault, you've got all sorts of other issues. >> you've got options. >> you have a new york statute that makes it illegal to choke people. >> right. >> you had other options. >> so if you don't want to vigorously prosecute the system for the benefit of the victims, then this system will not work. >> and that -- what the essential nature of this system is, right. >> exactly. >> do we have equal justice under law or don't we? there's...

There are reasons why, you know, these policies exist. even we live in a democracy or we don't. you know, maybe some would argue that we don't, but if we're going to accept that we do, we'll accept that votes matter, that the process matters. you know, we can't avoid fundamental truth about people who are deciding what the government will be justice, that the people get the government they deserve. i think that's kind of where we're at. >> michael -- >> hey, chris, can i dovetail on to that? and it goes back to your last conversation. the prosecutors in both the ferguson case and in this case ...

And can forgive me one day. but right now it's fresh and she's entitled to feel the way she feels. >> how much of the video was about you and your cause and how much was about the message? >> my cause is a message. it was 100% about that. >> your cause is also what is going to happen to you for the act. there was absolutely no influence that i hope this helps? i hope people see it, i'm sorry, i hope people see i'm not like other drunk drivers who don't take responsibility? there was no part of that calculation? >> the video itself, i had no motives for using it in court. i didn't want to use i...

What will the defense be in a case like that? >> with respect to the video itself, the video is repulsive, clearly. we believe it has no evidentiary value with respect to the case. >> judge jeanine: isn't your client in the video? >> no, your honor. he is not in the video nor is the other named defendant. neither of the individuals appear in the video nor were they present at the time that the video was in fact shot. >> judge jeanine: it appears there are not codefendants but individuals stew yo students fe school who are testifying against your client and the other defendant. are they making ...

What will the defense be in a case like that? >> with respect to the video itself, the video is repulsive, clearly. we believe it has no evidentiary value with respect to the case. >> judge jeanine: isn't your client in the video? >> no, your honor. he is not in the video nor is the other named defendant. neither of the individuals appear in the video nor were they present at the time that the video was in fact shot. >> judge jeanine: it appears there are not codefendants but individuals stew yo students fe school who are testifying against your client and the other defendant. are they making ...