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leftover peanut butter? >> it's actually back in the fridge. >> reporter: waiting for oden, the german shepherd, when he wants second. careful what you eat out of their fridge. who cares about peanut butter and jelly. we prefer peanut butter and shepherd. jeanne moos, cnn. >> it's so funny. >> reporter: new york. >> i don't know what to say. i'm carol costello. have a great weekend. cnn "newsroom" continues right now. hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield and we begin with a story line that we're hearing all too frequently about lately, teenagers, allegations of sex assault, cell phone photos, social media, and now suicide. gone is this girl, 15-year-old audrey putt. she hanged herself after learning about being sexually
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assaulted while drumpg ank and d out. here is cnn's affiliate kgo. >> reporter: all of the 16-year-olds are accused of attacking audrie pott. >> i hope that they are brought to justice. >> reporter: on december 2nd of last year, audrie was at an unsupervised house party. three fellow classmates took advantage. >> she has no idea what occurred until she woke up the following morning and had some drawing on her body and some private areas. >> reporter: the boys also took photos during the attack and not only showed them off at school but also texted and posted them online. audrie quickly found out and posted this, "they took pictures of me. my life is ruined. this is the worst day ever." the 15-year-old took her own life a few days later. >> some friends told me what happened to audrie and why it
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happened and who the people were and stuff like that. so it's really shocking at first, yeah. >> reporter: saratoga high school was in mourning after audrie's death. there was a moment of silence and all a while the boys many knew were involved continued to walk the halls until today. >> that it took that long was pretty ridiculous. it was half a year. september? yeah. i found that really disturbing. >> i want to bring in our cnn legal analyst sounny hostin and paul callan. this has taken a long time to get to this stage, to charges. between seven and eight months long. does that sound like it's too long or just about right? >> no. it sounds like it's taken an awfully long time. i'm curious to know what the details are going to be. if we have photos of her being
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sexually assaulted or raped, that's against the law. we'll have to wait and see what law enforcement had in their hands at the time. >> you mentioned the photos. apparently the allegations are some of these photos were her naked with drawings on her body. i'm trying to equate that with the charge of sexual battery. what does that charge mean? >> i mean, the bottom line is, it's a sexual assault. if you have a rape including a sexual battery, you have someone being harmed and drawn on and that sort of thing, it escalates the behavior. but i completely agree with paul, this is -- i'm just shocked that law enforcement would take this long to act. this sort of situation happens all across our country. unfortunately, you have drinking and then you have this kind of sexual assault happen. i guess we don't know enough yet but it's shocking to me that it
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took a little girl to commit suicide for law enforcement to act. it just really doesn't make any sense. >> look, this is not the first story we've told of this ilk. >> right. >> it's starting to get to the point where we're losing track. right now they are looking at two felonies and a misdemeanor each and all of those related to the sexual battery allegations. what about all of the other things? disseminating child pornography because that's what a cell phone picture of a young girl that's naked? and what about the potential charges down the line that might connect to the actual death? >> you know, it's reminiscent of the tyler clementi case. we went through the same discussion about new jersey law. this is a different jurisdiction. it's california. the sexual battery, as sunny said, the touching of a girl, sexually oriented, her breasts or anything like that that might be depicted in the photograph
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makes out a sexual battery. we don't know what else law enforcement has. i'm wondering, maybe they didn't have access to this social media. maybe these kids had these things. >> paul, a picture is a picture. if you e-mail a picture of a 15-year-old girl that is naked, that's pornography and kids have become sexual offenders because of that. >> it happened in steubenville. >> yep. legislators can't even keep up with this notion of sexting and children that have naked pictures of themselves. >> given steubenville and the publicity that that received, that these kids are out there still doing this, taking pictures, it's utterly disgraceful and there's some message not getting through to these young people that this is criminal behavior, it's rape, sexual battery, and you go to prison for it. why is this message not getting through to these kids?
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i don't understand. >> or perhaps this is all contemporaneous. it's been happening, coming to light, these very high-profile cases in the last several months. >> yeah. you know, i think it's a direct result of sort of the u bic quit to us nature of the internet and how all of the teens have cell phones and have the capabilities of taking these pictures rather than back in the day where they would talk about it, right, and perhaps talk about it amongst themselves. now we have people facebooking and tweeting about it and taking pictures. but i think to paul's point, my goodness, is this a matter of educating our children? you know, the message needs to get out there. but this is something, in my view, that's been happening for quite some time, this sort of date rain phenom. >> we have a dead teenager here and that speaks to the question i asked earlier and that was,
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what about the proximate notion that three days after this she committed suicide. is there any connection with the charge there? >> i don't think so. >> go ahead. >> paul, i don't know if you agree with me. this is exactly like what happened with tyler clementi. i don't know that you can bring any sort of murder charge against -- >> actually, though i agree with sunny, the law has to be, reasonable foreseeable that somebody would commit suicide. maybe you can make an argument that this is such a tragic thing that you'd have to consider that suicide would be a possibility. >> if you can't make it with the prosecutor, maybe that can be made in civil court. i have to rap it up. i have a bunch of legal cases i want you to weigh in on, not the least of which, it's 2013 and one georgia county is about to make history because for the first time ever that county is
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anniversary of the supreme court decision that integrated education in america. separating students by race is pro foundly unconstitutional. a public high school in georgia will have two proms, one white, one integrated. you heard me right. now try to wrap your mind around this little diddy. 2013 is the first year that students at wilcox county high will even have a choice of a mixed race prom. up until now, there was one prom for the white kids and another prom for the black kids. and finally some kids said, that's it. >> we share everything else together, why not have this one moment that means the world of us together? >> now, those students spoke with my colleague gary tuchman
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who is kind enough to join me from atlanta. so many questions and i think it's so surprising to a lot of people seeing this play out in realtime. first to the technical teas, everyone says that can't possibly be legal. but it is. why is that? >> you were talking about the decision brown versus the board of education 59 years ago. after it was ruled illegal to have segregated school, there were a lot of constitution schools that decided to deal with proms because so many parents was to no longer p publicly sponsor the proms. there are still some high schools in the united states that basically have these white proms and these black proms and the schools can't get in trouble because they are private. >> it's my right to associate any way i please. i get it. the school superintendent said,
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the board and superintendent not obama applauded the idea but passed a resolution requesting that all activities be nondiscriminatory. we praise the efforts to bring our students together. we ask for your support and prayers as we seek to right the wrongs of the past and be the adults that our children look up to. i'm just curious, how did you feel as you navigated your way through this story? did it seem as though if it weren't for a handful of students, we'd still have the status quo? >> wilcox county, georgia, three hours of here in atlanta, very pleasant place. cotton fields, it's beautiful, great weather. nice people. very nice people. this is what is so interesting. when we've talked to people about controversial view points, a lot of them don't want to talk on camera but everyone was willing to talk on camera there. everyone was very polite and nice despite many of these people, not only parents but students had the same
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old-fashion views. listen to one of the former students who graduated recently. listen to what he had to say to me. >> i think there should be two separate proms. >> tell me why you feel that way. >> because black boys with white girls, i don't like that. i don't believe in that. i wasn't raised that way. >> he says he wasn't raised that way to accept black boys and white girls at the same prom. and you certainly hear that from a lot of people but it's very fair to say that there are not only many students at wilcox county high school but many parents say it's time to make a change. >> and you've done quite an investigation. you have a special report coming up tonight. you can give me the promo for it right now. >> yes, i will give you the promo here at cnn. tonight on "anderson cooper 360," 6:00 mountain time and 5:00 pacific time. >> look at you, doing the math live.
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>> i want to tell you, not only will we have an update on this and more information about it but we did get a surprise response from the school superintendent when we asked him, hey, isn't it time to have the guts to publicly sponsor a prom with white students and black students? you have them in your high schools and football and basketball teams. is it time to publicly support this? his surprise response about that. >> that's what we'll get to tonight? >> yes. >> gary tuchman, thank you. i want to bring back in sunny hostin and paul callan on this. there is that first amendment right to associate with whomever you want to at that time and isn't that what this is all about down there? >> well, it is in the sense that you can be a member of an exclusive country club and have your own rules for admission. but the problem i have with this, we eliminated segregation in the early 1950s. why hasn't the board of education down there said we're
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sponsoring an official prom? instead, they are sanctioning this saying we're not going to have a prom, you do your own. and i think it's disgraceful in this day and age. they should step up to the plate and sponsor an official integrated prom and join the 21st century. >> and so sunny, again, i can't help but bring up this argument. as outrageous as it may seem to see a segregated prom in 2013, this is sort of a demonstration of our dearly protected rights. if i want to have a girl's book club with you, isn't that kind of the same deal? >> i think given the history of the south and given the history of our country, it's very different, actually. >> how? >> i agree with paul, the answer here really is to have the board step up and the school -- >> it's a morality issue, it's not a legal issue? >> it's not. >> it's a morality issue? >> yeah, it's a morality issue and i'm saddened by it on so
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many levels. one, specifically as a person who is bi-racial, my father always tells the story about how he was with my mom in the deep south and the kkk ran them out in the early '60s. and so i'm saddened that in a time when we're talking about the supreme court considering gay marriage and considering civil rights issues, that you have people that aren't stepping up to the plate and you have people sort of living a way of life that i thought was really behind us. >> since you brought up the gay marriage issue, paul, i want to bring up an each. elsewhere in georgia, masters golf tournament is under way. it brings up the memory of last year, women finally being allowed into that club. the curiosity here is if places like wilcox county or augusta,
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do they matter when it comes to decision making for legislators and courts when they are dealing with marriage rights, same-sex couples, these sorts of things? >> they do because it sends a message. augusta is sort of the classic exclusive club and their exclusion of women sends a message that it's proper for the powerful and the wealthy to sanction this kind of behavior. it's a moral issue admittedly under the u.s. constitution. the government can't force it. places like augusta should think long and hard about the message they send to the entire nation and the school district should think long and hard about it. >> so you have that from paul and sunny and i want to promote gary's special report is coming up on sander s"anderson cooper 360." i want to give the word to somebody, it's special, a resident of wilcox county who has seen a fair share of
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history. let me tell you that and wants to see a little more. take a look. >> i believe it's time let's let bygones be gone and let's all live together in peace.
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the jodi arias murder trial has become such a huge case that even the witnesses are getting thrown into the national spotlight but not in the way that they'd like to. the defense's domestic violence expert, alyce laviolette has been on the stand for 11 days now and in that time she's been absolutely ee viscerated online. cnn ted rowlands has this story. >> reporter: prosecutor juan martinez isn't the only one going after alyce laviolette. the domestic violence expert has become the target of trial watchers who want to see arias convicted. on twitter, the attacks are nearly constant while she's on the stand. many of them personal and extremely profane. on amazon.com, laviolette's
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book, "it could happen to anyone," it's getting slammed not by readers but because she's a defense witness for jodi arias. one viewer says, we are angry at you and calls her a fraud. there's a petition with over 5,000 signatures to get her fired from a future speaking engagement. it was started by erin murray who is watching the trial at home in oklahoma. >> i don't feel bad for her if she's getting negative reaction from her testimony because she went in with her own free will to testify. >> reporter: a friend who has been accompanying her here every day knew it was going to be difficult to testify but said she is shocked at how vicious people have been to her and she's not the only witness to feel the wrath of jodi arias trial watchers. >> the truth, the whole truth, so help you god?
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>> reporter: gus who testified in january on her behalf, he says he was not prepared for the hate mail he received after getting off the stand. >> i had no idea there would be so much character assassination associated with it. >> reporter: alyce laviolette is going to finish her testimony today leaving the stand for testimony that is going to bring out unwanted enemies. cnn, ted rowlands, phoenix. >> alyce laviolette is going to be answering more jury questions. with every new day comes harassment online. one of her friends told the arizona republic that she's getting angry phone calls and e-mails at her office in long beach, california. one of them so serious that her colleagues had to call the police. in fact, her friends servnt hero the hospital for anxiety and
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heart palpitation. she ended her testimony early last week due to illness. wednesday she had dinner with her defense attorney and someone followed her, took photos of her, and posted the photos online. it is quite a new phenomena. i want to bring in jean casarez who is outside the courthouse in phoenix and criminal defense attorney jose baez who defended casey anthony. jean, you're there every day. you see the throngs of people who come from out of state, a long way away, to watch this trial. but even you as a regular court watcher and reporter, this has to be surprising to you, the level to which people have gone to harass this witness. >> i've never seen this level. i truly have not. and sitting in that courtroom we continually see laviolette along with the defense attorney go through the door to the judge's
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chambers and i thought it was because of the cross-examination, which is very strong and it should be strong but it being looks like there's much more to this and i have seen her in the courtroom just not looking well. i mean, looking very pale and just seemingly going downhill healthwise. i've witnessed it. but the power of this social movement that is happening right now is very strong and i think any witness for the defense could be a target of it. >> and i'm going to touch on that with you in a moment because i want to get to the possibility, if there is a death penalty in this is kcase, jose, you, you have been through this. you were at the center of a searing spotlight for months during casey anthony. did it rise to this level for you or any of your defense experts? >> it got pretty bad but i think it's -- one, it depends on how you handle it. this is a witness. what i call this is e-lynching.
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people want to pervay the province of the jury and they think they can intimidate or bully someone into either changing their opinions or affecting their testimony or, worse, their lives. this is pathetic. it's cowardly and it should be against the law. there should be a movement to change this. >> i have a legal question for you about that because it got me thinking, you can't intimidate witnesses during a trial and oftentimes people are prosecuted for that very thing. but this is weird. these are not people associated with the defense or prosecution. these are just people watching. can't you say that this is their first amendment right to express how they feel to somebody who has a public online presence? >> no, it isn't. because you don't have the right to harass or intimidate a person. that's called stalking. and you can cyber stalk someone,
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you can have harassing phone calls. they are all against the law and blogosphere and twitter to actually stand up to some of these people, trying to ruin her name, i think it's nothing short of pathetic. if you want to be law and order, respect law and order. >> jean, real quick, i want you to weigh in on the possibility that there may be other experts awaiting their turn on the witness stand who may think twice because of what has happened to laviolette. >> well, let's talk about the penalty phase. friends, family, associates to come to try and save her life, maybe they decide it's not worth it and not show up. >> i want to say very quickly, some of the juror questions are very personal to laviolette. i mean, do you hate men,
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basically, has been one of the questions. why do you continually look to your left? and she says, my 93-year-old father is in the gallery and my kindergartner friends have been here to support me. i've looked at them. >> i smell a potential appellate case if that's the case. we're in unchartered waters here. be sure to watch today's testimony on hln and cnn.com. jean has been doing very well. jose, you're going to stay with me for a moment because i have a question, this woman, casey anthony, the thoughts inside her head effectively her life story, can they be bought and sold before they are even expressed on paper? does someone have a right to her brain, effectively? it's a weird legal question and we're going to try to figure it out in a moment.
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anthony's lawyer who would be an unprecedented invasion of her private thoughts. the judge has not yet made a decision on this but it sure brings up some fascinating legal arguments. jose baez, who is a criminal defense attorney, and paul callan, is back with us. i want to begin with you. you are always my professor of wisdom on these wickets, shall i say. that's the question here, isn't it? they are trying to harness what is in her head and monetize it? >> yes. casey anthony owes a lot of people a lot of money. so in order to avoid paying them any money, she declares bankruptcy. and in the united states we have this concept of fresh start. you go into beang republicankru you come out with a clean slate and start your life over again. the most valuable thing that she owns is the story of her life and maybe even what she has to say about what went down in that case when mr. baez didn't put
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her on the stand to tell the story. so the bankruptcy court is now looking at, well, can we force her to sell the rights to her story? but as you say, you're really not giving her a fresh start, then, because you're getting in her brain. so the future works, opponents say, and it's a tough concept. >> there is nothing you can do in beang republican see law to protect against an asset that is about to be realized, correct? >> that's correct. you're starting with a blank slate. it's unfair to say five years from now you may make a lot of money when you write a book. so we're going to reopen the bankruptcy and you have to pay off your creditors. that's the opposition to this. but there's one other thing. one person stepped up and said, i'll pay her $10,000 not to write a story. i'll bar her from writing a book. now she doesn't have to do anything in the future. >> can you stop someone from talking? can you say, you don't have a
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first amendment right to speak about you, your life, our the crime you were acquitted of? >> well, yes, you do,s in a sense. let's say you work for coca-cola and as your job you find out what the secret is about making the coke. your job prevents you from revealing things in your head. >> jose baez, you got very sick of me every day in that courtroom during the criminal trial needling you for information that you could never give me but i'm going to try again because that's what i do. do you have thoughts one way or another, knowing that you are one of the biggest creditors owed in this bankruptcy case? >> to say sick of you is way too strong a word. in fact, i enjoyed our conversations very much but, unfortunately, as in the trial, i'm ethically forbiddened from commenting on this and all i can
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do is sit back and listen. >> and wait for the decision, which i'm sure you are doing with bated breath. thank you for coming to us with these related stories and these circus-type cases because they move through unchartered territory. good to see you. paul krccallan, thank you. a convict, convicted killer suing the widow of the man that he killed? i am so not kidding about this. she's saying how could you defame a killer? because that's his argument. our legal team is going to dive in. we believe it can be the most valuable real estate on earth. ♪ that's why we designed our newest subaru from the back seat forward. introducing the all-new, completely restyled subaru forester. love. it's what makes a subaru,
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you might call this the textbook definition of adding insult to injury. a man kills your husband and
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then sues you from prison. this happened after paula wrote a letter opposing a request from her husband's killer to be transferred to a prison closer to his family. larry shandola is serving 31 years for shooting her husband in the face. but he took great offense to some of the things that she wrote about him in the letter to the authorities and now she is in court trying to get his suit against her tossed out. and she's also fighting for legislation to protect other victims from having to go through the same kind of thing. joey jackson is joining us. sunny hostin is with us. is this a textbook definition of a frivolous case or does he actually have any merit here? >> no, there's no merit at all. let's talk about what frivolous means. it has no merit. it's meritless. certainly if there are sanctions for lawyers, we lawyers are held accountable for what we do. with he have to exercise due
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diligence and if there's no merit at all, we're not allowed to file, could be held in ccont of court. she shouldn't be in court and for the second time having to be victimized again by a person who killed her husband and now he's claiming to be defamed? what reputation laws haoss have suffered as a prison inmate for 31 years. >> i hear you. it's not like he's going to lose income over this. sunny, there's always an issue when anyone can sue. the issue is, you do have to hire attorneys. you do incur costs as a defendant. all before a judge gets a crack at tossing it out? >> yeah. that's the bottom line. you have to respond to a lawsuit. sometimes if you don't respond, then you get a judgment against you, just a judgment. but i've got to tell you and i can't believe i feel this way but one of the bedrocks of our legal system is the fact that
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you don't necessarily need a lawyer to enforce your rights, that you can go down to the courthouse or write a pro se complaint and try to get your case heard in a court of law. and so while i think we're really bothered by the fact that this convicted killer could do something like this, i think you have to allow him to do this to protect the rights that we all hold dear, which is the right to be able to sue. i know you're going to disagree with me, joey, but i'm troubled by this but i think it's faua fundamental right. >> people should not have to have a lawyer to sue. you can sue as an individual with a lawyer or not with one. we are going to levels that should have some basis in law and in fact if it doesn't there should be legislation that prevents you from doing that, from dragging in someone who needlessly has to defend themselves against something that will be dismissed ultimately anyway. >> in case anybody is curious
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about what it is exactly she said about him, she said, i know he will kill me. she's worried about him moving to canada. she feels like she's going to lose track of him and he's a skilled sociopath. if someone shoots someone in the face and can be called a skilled soci sociopath. a 17-year-old boy is shot and killed on the way to the school bus. gun violence yet again in america. it's coming up next.
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visit vwdealer.com today. we're watching a live situation in greensboro, north carolina. in the left of your screen is a live picture of the north carolina a & t campus from the police there have the university campus on lockdown right now as we zoom in, a cruiser, they have been telling students to stay where they are. there was one report that came out earlier of an unknown black male with a weapon. police department is now conducting a campuswide search and, again, probably not a lot of movement other than some of those cruisers moving throughout the campus. if you look at the website, basically there's the map of the campus. let me give you a clearer picture of how significant and big it is.
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it's 200 acres but also has a 600 acre. 10,000 students there and 2,000 employees. a lot of terrain to cover as they do their search. the guy they are looking for, apparently 5'11", wearing a blue jacket, blue jeans, white cap, white t-shirt. an alert went out earlier. so far we have nothing to report in terms of injuries. we'll watch that and update you as we get more information. in the meantime, you pick up the television, click through the internet and almost every day there is a story about gun violence. did you know that the united states outpaces every country in the developed world in gun-related murders? every one of those shootings has a story to tell and we are now committed to bringing those stories to you. they are real and they are happening in our country. our crime and justice correspondent joe johns joins me. you've learned new details on the tragic suicide of rick
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warren's son who shot and killed himself. >> that's right. this is the high-profile pastor and author. he tweeted yesterday that his son matthew had committed suicide with what was an unregistered gun purchased from someone over the internet. authorities are telling cnn the serial number was scratched off. it's a felony to remove a serial number from a firearm in the u.s. warren did add that he forgives the person who sold the gun to his son. an interesting and sad twist there, ashleigh. >> and another file that's come into our office, out of tennessee. we have a student shot and killed while trying to get on a school bus? >> yeah. very, very disturbing. this is out of nashville. authorities say a 17-year-old high school student named jonathan johnson heading out to catch his school bus, apparently
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a basketball player. police say another 17-year-old is a prime suspect in the case but so far they haven't located them yet. we haven't gotten any news on that front. johnson's family says he is the second youngest of five children. his high school principal called him friendly, kind, said he had a bright future and of course grief counselors are on hand to help the classmates deal with that tragedy. quite a sad story in nashville. >> and an important one to tell. joe johns, thank you for that. next, to the l.a. dodgers. they've got a star pitcher worth $147 million under contract and now he has one serious owie that might affect his actual playing and all that money. what's going to happen to the guy who charged the mound and did that to him? you might be surprised to find out the legal ramifications in a moment. 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health.
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baseball is not supposed to be a full-contact sport, but last night los angeles dodgers had a game with the san diego padres and turned out to an all-out free-for-all. started when the padres outfielder carlos hit by zack greinke's pitch. he charges the mound, plows right into greinke and next came the all-out mayhem.
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nothing like a bench brawl, right? but it's the initial hit that might be bigger than the brawl. and it might be a bigger issue altogether in a courtroom. zack greinke suffered a broken collarbone from this and not out of the realm of possibilities that the injury could effect his season, his future. can i remind you that greinke has a $147 million contract with the dodgers? guess the question becomes can anybody sue over this? sunny hostin and joey jackson are back with me. i didn't expect that i was going to talk sports with you, but i am. i'm going to start with you, sunny. can anybody sue? can the injured player sue? can his team sue the other team? >> yeah, you know, i still can't believe that grown men are rushing each other on a professional sports players are doing this kind of thing. but absolutely i think a lawsuit is possible. a civil lawsuit. i mean, this could be -- this could be a season-ender.
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i don't know if it's a career ender, but, you know, there's no question that in my view that was intentional. that was an intentional act. i mean, it is a contact sport. and so certain things i think you sign on for when you're a professional athlete. you play in baseball -- but that was a heck of a charge -- you get hit with the ball. but if you go and hit someone like that, yeah, absolutely. >> so, joey, i'm a big hockey fan. and there is a lot of hitting in hockey. i remember a case in '04 where a guy got hit so bad there were criminal charges that got involved and civil charges as well. that made me think about this, are there any chances of criminal charges in this? >> i think it's unlikely. first of all, people have been charging the mound since little league. we teach little leaguers don't ever do this, high schoolers, don't do it. but in the professional level you see it. so the problem is usually baseball internally patrols itself. just like you mentioned hockey before, ashleigh, they internally control themselves although there are those limited instances where there is
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criminal intervention. it's usually left to the local district attorney, but they've been very reluctant. so at the end of the day these things usually resolve themselves with a suspension of the player in order to deter it from happening again. >> well, when that '04 thing happened in canada, that might be why there was a criminal prosecution. i'm fresh out of time. both of you, sunny, joey, thank you. appreciate it. >> great weekend to both of you. >> you too. back in a moment. hwelcome back.. nice to see you again! hey! i almost didn't recognize you without the suit. well, this is my weekend suit. weekend getaways just got better. well, enjoy your round! alright, thanks!
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