lazarus was beaten, bitten and shot to death.tives thought it was a botched robbery. rasmussen's parents begged detectives to investigate lazarus, their daughter's romantic rival. >> i told the detective not once but probably 15 to 20 times and he said, the trouble with you is you have been watching too much tv. >> reporter: the break came when saliva from the bite on sherry's body was sent in for dna analysis. no match, but it revealed the killer was a woman. in 2009 another lapd detective took a fresh look at the file and soon zeroed in on lazarus. a dna sample from lazarus, secretly taken from a soda straw, matched the dna in sherry's bite mark. days later, homicide detectives pulled lazarus into a room and began hitting her with questions about the case. >> did you have a fight with her? >> you're accusing me of this? is that what you're saying? >> we're trying to figure out what happened, stephanie. >> reporter: lazarus could be in prison the rest of her life. >> state law requires that lazarus be sentenced to life with the

please welcome simon lazarus. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. i don't want to disturb your computer. if you want. >> shut it down. >> just shut it down. >> there you go. thanks. well, thanks very much, roger. thanks to you and your colleagues for hosting this very fine conference. and in particular, i want to thank you for recognizing the importance of this medicaid expansion issue that all of you have spoken to. i have all along seen this as a sleeper issue and one that raises very significant questions. i hardly disagree with i think each of you on most of the ways in which you look at those questions and many of the things that you said about the facts surrounding them. but i share a view that congress' spending clause authority is a very significant part of the way in which our country is governed. and so the courts addressing that issue is very important and it's an issue which -- just hasn't gotten a lot of respect. there's almost nothing about it in the press. even though here it is sitting on the court's docket. i think it's -- and there

commissioner lazarus. commissioner lazarus: i asked the last time about how you explain meters with no time limit. i do not understand the concept behind that if it is more revenue driven. in principle it does not really make sense to me. >> i will try to explain it. the park program is market- driven, and so with no time wlimits, which really helps the user, based on the markets of where the demand is for parking come and stable rockets at the rate where it is very popular, and lower the rate so that wherever you want to park there is always a space if you are willing to pay. that is why going from two hours, which is difficult for the user if you of the three- hour meeting and can only find a two-hour spot, that is difficult for you as the user. if you're willing to pay where you want to park, then you can park their as long as you want. if you're willing to walk a few extra blocks, you can pay a little bit less but there will still be a spot there. it is market driven, and the a limited time makes it ea

. >> jim lazarus. commissioners, jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce. thank you for the time to make a case, i hope to urge you to oppose the legislation that's before you at the board of supervisors. we've had a difficult job history in this country and in this city the last few years, and financial services industry certainly took the brunt of that, but we've had it before in a savings and loan crisis of 30 years ago when savings and loan branches were closed all over the city. three, four years ago you had bank branches closed all over the city. new banks are here because they were compelled by federal regulators to take over banks that were about to fail three years ago. you find a wachovia branch anywhere now? or a washington mutual branch anywhere now? no. those are wells branches. those are chase branches. because those banks stepped in to take over those troubled institutions. those are not so much wells at the moment but we've already said the target is chase which is expanding and adding thousands of jobs in northern california as it takes ove

lazarus. it's also a comparison between living in a socialist country and being free individuals in a free country. and i, for one, choose the latter. i can't say what anyone else in this room would choose. i want to be free. i don't want a government telling me every little thing i can do. and my question is this. with all of the county health programs out there, all of the charity clinics, doctors who if you ask are willing to help people that can't afford to pay for things, who maybe don't have insurance for whatever reason, doesn't this -- doesn't the overreach of obamacare duplicate a lot of those things? why or why not? >> i think that's directed to you, simon. >> it's directed to everybody. >> well, i'm not -- there's a lot of questions there so i don't know exactly how to proceed. but you made a remark that you prefer to live in a free country, not a socialist country. and i guess that was about the individual mandate or what was it about? >> it's a comment -- over reaching comment abo

stephanie lazarus, one of the lapd's own detectives, on trial for murder. and the verdict?e crime of murder of sherry rasmussen. >> reporter: the victim's family saw justice finally delivered. >> it's a tremendous relief. >> reporter: down the street at police head quarters, the reaction was more muted. >> well, i'm very pleased. but it's bittersweet. >> reporter: lapd chief charlie beck. >> we would have rather this had not been a los angeles police detective, that's for sure. i have known stephanie for a lot of years. >> reporter: the details were shocking. in 1986, then a junior patrol officer, lazarus stalked and murdered the new wife of her former boyfriend. she was beaten, even bitten, then shot to death in her own home. at the time detectives thought it was a botched robbery. rasmussen's parents begged detectives to investigate lazarus, their daughter's romantic rival. >> i told the detective not once but probably 15 to 20 times and he said, the trouble with you is you have been watching too much tv. >> reporter: the break came when saliva from the bite on sherry's b

. >> we are talking comeback, a sort of lazarus proportions., newt gingrich was dead in the summer. literally, he was about 10 feet under. and then he stormed back. is it completely unthinkable that one of these guys could, yet, make a stunning comeback? gr for me, it's too early. we still have a few more states to go. louisiana and wisconsin, those are going to look like wins for santorum. he's leading in the polling. that's not going to win any campaigns. and it's certainly not going to encourage more people to invest if his campaigns. so, at this point, i think even lazarus is being general rusts. i just don't think he can come back from this. >> carol, let's talk about rick santorum. he's dropped a few clangers in the last couple of weeks. no question with that. he's been stumbling with phrases that are really graded with people. >> i think he's lost a lot of momentum. and i don't think he learned anything about the social issues. you know, first it was the birth control issue. this week, it was the porn issue. he's really gotten off issue

we're seeing the prospect of newt pulling a triple lazarus. >> i think mitt romney's found his voice.et. >> sure? states in the deep south. >> i like that. triple lazarus and biblical hat trick. >>> and now to a story that has rocked the medical world and created a fire storm around prenatal testing. a couple was awarding $2.9 million after their daughter was unexpectedly born with down syndrome. they were expecting their third child in 2008. now, because of her age, she did prenatal tests and was told she was having a healthy baby, but learned she had abnormalities. they sued legacy health center for botching the test and said they would have aborted the pregnancy if they knew their child had down syndrome. >> i think the jury was asked to consider was this medical procedure done negligently and if it was, what are the financial consequences. they love this little girl dearly. they have an extended family that provides help every day for this little girl. >> paul cowen is with us. criminal defense attorney and their daughter is now four, so there is something strange to hear about th

can newt gingrich rise again as we call canned we called it the triple lazarus. and a bad night for newt gingrich could mean he is out of the race. >> with rick and me together, we arelying him down and with some help from ron paul, and the country is sort of saying by a majority of them saying not romney. >> well, if rick santorum has a strong finish, he is going to prove that the appeal runs through the south as well as the midwest. >> we need the conservative belt right through the south of america to speak loudly that they want a strong conviction conservative candidate. >> and the stakes of course are very, very high for mitt romney tonight. if he looks weak in these southern states, which he has not won with the exception of florida which is different from the deep south, the old story line that he cannot close the deal will be the headline again tomorrow, and today, he is focusing on math and the delegate count. >> if the polls are anywhere near correct we will end up with one-third of the delegates, and if that is the case, well, that inches us closer to

and nanette asimov and david lazarus, "los angeles times" and ktla businessçó analyst, thank u for joinings. >> it's been too long. >> why is the supreme court going to take so long to hear this case? one of the most unusual things about it. is that not true? >> you are right about that, belva. normally, a handful, half hour here, half hour there of argument. we haven't seen longer amounts of argument. certainly brown versus board of education had more time. miranda rights had more time. financial reform had more time. really underlying the monumental nature of the health care reform decisions afoot and three days set. for everyone playing along at home, the first day at home is going to tackle basic questions of should the court be considering this now, or put it off until 2015 after the exchanges and the mandates kick in? that's the first day. the second day actually tackles the mandate, squalled guaranteed issue, whether people have to get health insurance or pay tax penalty and on the third day, they will tackle the question if the mandate is unconstitutional, should the rest of the en

lazarus, is there such a thing as a coercion doctrine? >> that's a good question. what the questioner is referring to is the fact that the reference to coercion that has been made in the case law has been made in two cases, as tim indicated. the butler case in 1936 and the south dakota v. dole case in 1987. neither of these cases actually held that there is a doctrine of coercion. they refer to the possibility that a conditional grant might be made under terms that went from compulsion to coercion, but they didn't say anything about exactly what it meant. a number of courts of appeal have concluded that it doesn't really exist as a doctrine. no court has ever actually applied it to hold that a traditional grant was unconstitutional. so one thing that these cases will decide is whether the doctrine actually exists as law or not and that in and of itself will be very important. the justice department is arguing that it actually doesn't or shouldn't. there's a good argument for that position. the states that i was talking about, the democratic states who support the m

david lazarus, tell us what was the temperature of the justices as they heard all of the arguments on affordable care? >> it was hot, belva. earlier, the fate of health care reform is largely sealed at this point, and a secret vote was taken just hours ago. we won't know how they voted until probably late june, but the dye has been largely cast. this week was really interesting. last friday setting it up. let's look at what happened. we had expected there to be a lot of questions about the mandate, this glad everyone had to buy health insurance to make the rest of this thing work. what we weren't expecting was how aggressive the conservative justices would be in questioning this, specifically justice anthony kennedy, looked at as the swing vote here. many thought he would kind of going with the mandate. there's enough precedence out there to give you a legal footing for it, but, no. he really came on strong and suggested that he didn't like the cut of the mandate, constitutionally speaking, and then the next day, the conservative justices piled on once again and suggested that if the

turn to the lawyers to argue that this aspect of obama care is an unconstitutional and then to simon lazarus to argue that it is constitutional. i'm going to introduce each of our speakers before they speak unlike on the last panel. and we'll start with our jagadeesh gokhale, and you'll get to see a power point presentation, the first one here in the new auditorium using the wonderful facilities we just finished creating. jagadeesh gokhale is a senior fellow here at the cato institute, and he is recognized internationally as an expert on entitlement reform, labor productivity, and composition, u.s. fiscal policy, and the impact of fiscal policy on future generations. he served in 2002 as a consultant to the u.s. department of the treasury, and in 2003 as a visiting scholar of the american enterprise institute. he was a senior economist advisor to the federal reserve bank of cleveland from 1990 to 2003. he holds a ph.d in economics from boston university and is currently a member of the social security advisory board. he has published voluminously in leading academic journals of economics. hi

>> well, i mean, he's pulled a double lazarus so far. >> he's coming back to life. >> that said, you in michigan, georgia last night, about but he didn't come in second in any other state. he came in third and fourth. that does show a limited appeal. there's going to be a lot of pressure for him to get out. i don't think he'll take it in the era of -- but when you don't come in second in any other state and only in your home state, that's not a good sign for the depth and breadth of your support. >> maybe lazarus needed a cash infusion. doug, your thoughts? >> i know john tweeted yesterday that he's excited the bruce springsteen item came out, so hard times come, hard times go, we'll hear more from newt. this proportional contest means it will continue. >> i'm going to try to get some springsteen music cued up right now. robert, final thoughts? >> we have the concept of trophy wives. ultimately newt gingrich is a trophy candidate. and the reality simply is that as long as there are speaker fees to be gained and books to sell, newt gingrich will always find a podium to keep the campai

jim lazarus with the chamber or commerce, says the pier 3032 renovation was a make it or break it part>> there was opposition as we hear in van on land use issues. >> reporter: they feel by not giving ellison rights to develop and have 66 years potential income from piers 30/32, the city is losing out on an improved waterfront, but it tips the scale because waterfront improvement is limited and expensive. >> they were opening to put deals together with waterfront and seawall properties, things that would make it look. the longer they looked at it, the harder it was, too. >> reporter: the day teams practice on the bay, no plan b means negotiators for both the city and team oracle had to find a way to make it all work. >> the big remaining question -- >> reporter: but will it be enough to quiet critiques. the 80 million that san francisco has to pay back is excited about the america's cup coming here, it has to be at a reasonable price. >> i think san francisco will benefit and some apt of investment the warranted, but it shouldn't be something san francisco cans pay for for generation t

report very he will try to prove he is, in fact, not dead and be lazarus feeling go about chances becausepolls have him up 20 points. >>shepard: this is a lock, right? >>reporter: it would seem. what newt gingrich is hoping is to convert this in to a southern strategy. if he wins south carolina and. he hopes to do well in kansas, maybe win that on 10th and then the 13th, alabama and mississippi, and he hopes to when those and take that all the way to the convention but political scientists at emory say it will be a real challenge to last that long. >> he could be able to stay in, i think he wants to stay in through the convention and be a force at convention shaping the platform and being a spokesman for the party but right now no matter what happens in georgia it is an uphill battle. >>reporter: the reason is because he has not been able to win anything outside of the south and if you want to employ a southern strategy you want to do everything south of the mason dixon line he lost all of the delegates because it was winner take all and not on the ballot, today, in virginia. >>shepard: s

so how do we play this lazarus-like revival in the banks?ust do the straightforward thing and buy the obvious, jpm, like we've been doing for my charitable trust at actionalertsplus.com. even after the stock's recent run, i think it's still worth buying. jpmorgan has probably made itself into the world's premier financial supermarket. but -- and this is a big but -- the kind sir mix-a-lot would love. the main reason they're recovering now as opposed to two years ago is the housing market. i'm blessing it, but you need to do it with the regionals. let me explain. as hard as it may be to believe in the past whenever we came out of a recession, the banks were the first sector to recover, what you wanted to reach for. typically they were the first group you wanted to buy. and the economy started to show signs of turning around. this time, though, we're buying the banks last because the great recession was different. in the great recession, the epicenter of the decline of our economy was housing. and the group most levered to housing, the banks b

and rise from the -- lazarus for the third time and rise from the dead. that's a tough challenge.aul, it's simply a matter of accumulating enough delegates to have some presence on the platform in tampa. >> jamie: the issues that are important, social issues, the economy... it's pretty uniform that people are concerned about the pocketbook, especially with the gas prices and the jobless numbers right now. is that what these candidates should focus on? or should they bring up the side issues of contraception? should they add anything to the list of what they are talking about to get as many of the independent voters, let's say, for example, to start thinking their way? >> an election is a mosaic. think of it that way. each issue is another little piece of the mosaic that the candidates are placing on the -- the big screen. but it's important in the end for that mosaic to spell out, to paint out for voters, the central issue or issues of the campaign. look, social issues are important. loads of base voters and independent voters consider them important. but there is no question, the

are we waiting for some sort of lazarus moment where we could go to the graveyard and ask this boy toown behalf because that's not going to happen but we have enough evidence just based on what we've seen so far, we don't even need to know whether or not he's the only person screaming. it is completely possible that more than one person screamed. somebody can scream to say, help me keep this kid down. somebody can scream when the guy pulls out a gun and says, you know, please don't shoot me and both people could be hearing their loved one. we don't have to have that completely resolved. we just have to say, there's enough ambiguity here, there's enough contradiction here that we need to let a jury of his peers examine the evidence on the cross-examination. that's it. >> we're going to take a quick break here. eugene, before we go, what charles is pointing out is there's a difference between what is probable cause and what is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. you as a cop worked with trying to find probable cause. that was your job. as a prosecutor you were trying to find probable cause