. >> ashleigh banfield is joining us from new york as well. gh, you've spent a lot of time covering this case. give us your sense of what we should be anticipating. >> well i'll tell you something, wolf i have to be honest, i did not expect a deliberation on this guilt/innocence phase to go beyond just a few hours. i'll say that only for this reason. normally i say give a jury as long as they want especially when it's death penalty. but his own attorney conceded at the beginning of the case in opening statements and at the end of her case in chief in the closing arguments that there's no question my client did this. sure she may argue later in the next phase that there was a leader in his brother. but there's conspiracy and aiding and abetting in every single one of those charges. so to actually go through this -- this is the verdict form right here. yes, it's big. it's thick. it's 32 pages including a cover sheet and signature page. but 32 pages of yes or no questions. i was surprised it took this long. i'm expecting we'll get meat and potatoe

i'm ashleigh banfield. and welcome. this is "legal view." at this hour, we have brand new information about that fatal encounter between a south carolina police officer and a man he pulled over for a broken taillight. now details about what happened in the moments before that shooting happened. and it comes from the bravy witness who shot this video, a video that could ex-pose a possible murder. that's the charge and so far, it's the story. in the meantime, the north charleston police department is taking swift action. they have fired officer michael slager as he faces these murder charges. and they're making some further changes to the department on top of that as well. slager was not wearing a body camera when he shot 50-year-old walter scott. now the mayor has said the city is also ordering an additional 150 body cameras to outfit every one of their officers. the man who captured the video, feidin santana is now speaking out. he turned on his phone. here's his explanation of what he saw before he started recording the video. >> what made

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> hello. everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield."legal view." we begin this hour with breaking news. it comes in the war against isis. federal investigators charging yet another american with trying to join the terror group. this time, a woman from philadelphia. her arrest is coming on the heels of three terror arrests just yesterday, two women charged in new york for plotting a pressure cooker bomb-styled attack. and a 29-year-old american who was detained in pakistan and secretly flown to new york to face a federal judge for, again, plotting to attack americans abroad. joining me now to

i'm ashleigh banfield. well tom to "legal view." a packed courthouse today in boston as part one of the trial of the marathon bomber gentle e tsarnaev winds down with closing arguments. tsarnaev's attorney admits the defendant pulled off the attack with his older brother killing three people and wounding 264 others. so a guilty verdict shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. tsarnaev faces 30, 30 federal counts, more than half of them carry the possibility of a death sentence. and that will be taken up in the next phase of the trial, if in fact there is one. we're going to talk about this with our legal experts joey jackson and danny so value les. but first i want to get you live to the scene. take me through the scene so far this morning, alexandra. >> reporter: powerful opening minutes of the closing statements from the prosecution. you've got the packed courtroom. bill richard, the father of eight-year-old son killed in the son. you can see him careening his neck trying to get a good look at dzhokhar tsarnaev. you've got other su

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view."hcam footage of those moments that led up to that disturbing south carolina police shooting, a shooting that ended with a man dead in an open field. walter scott now a memory. in the meantime, we're also learning that the officer involved, michael slager, he's been charged with first-degree murder in this case. and he has now been separated from the general population in that jail. and that means he's in a cell by himself and is being m

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." if you're counting the number of official investigations into the unexplained death of freddie gray stands at four. the latest being a federal probe into potential civil rights violations arising from gray's arrest a week ago sunday in a baltimore housing project. the arresting officers say gray was taken in, quote, without force or incident. but gray's family and witnesses and two video clips from cell phones seem to suggest something very different. somehow, enough force was used somewhere or somehow by someone, perhaps, to fracture gray's spine and maybe even his lar rings. i'm going to play those clips for you at length, start to finish, so you may see unedited for yourself. >> breathe. i need a -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> [ bleep ]. i know they [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> making me mad, y'all. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> get off me. >> they can't be always violating always. always. right. [ bleep ]. >> his leg -- [ inaudible ]. >> [ bleep ]. >> hey. his

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." today we are seeing some brand-new police dashcam footage of those moments that led up to that disturbing south carolina police shooting, a shooting that ended with a man dead in an open field. walter scott now a memory. in the meantime, we're also learning that the officer involved, michael slager, he's been charged with first-degree murder in this case. and he has now been separated from the general population in that jail. and that means he's in a cell by himself and is being monitored for his mental health. as far as the dashcam video is concerned, at first glance, it seems pretty routine, a traffic stop you may have seen before. and that is until mr. scott begins to run. the video i'm about to show you, it may give some answers to some questions that are looming over this case. but it certainly does not explain the biggest question, why officer slager chose to shoot walter scott in the back as he was running away. i want to show you the whole scene as it played out in front of of

ashleigh banfield is here to talk about this.want to read a few excerpts from "the boston globe" editorial and get your thoughts on the other side. here is part of it. quote, the defense team hammered away of the argument and backed it up with evidence that tamerlan was the primary instigator. for jurors who believe execution should be reserved for the worse criminals, the lawyers laid out a clear path that dzhokhar was not the worst of the tsarnaevs. >> when we talk about the death paneality in united states we talk about it being for the worst of the worst of criminals, not the wos worst of the worst of brothers. i'm not sure it's entirely the case that the jury was convinced that he was led along by his brother. i'm not sure that we know that yet. certainly they believe in conspiracy on every single charge and certainly they believe in aiding an abetting. >> "the boston globe" also writes, tsarnaev was 19 years old at the time of the bombing, apparently a heavy drug user he had no prior criminal record. taken as a whole and al

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." >>> we have a cnn key race alert for you. senator rand paul is officially jumping into the race for the white house. kentucky's junior senator is expected to speak live at any moment from a louisville hotel ballroom and you're going to see it live here on cnn. someone who's been there since the set-up began, dana bash, is standing by. dana, here's the issue. other than saying i'm running for president, what is going to be key in senator paul's speech today that will set him apart from everyone else in that republican roster? >> reporter: ashleigh, you're actually seeing the answer to that in the speech that's going on behind me. there's a young woman speaking, talking about the fact that as a young person, she's drawn to rand paul because of his use of technology, because of his ideology. before that, we heard from a doctor, a friend of rand paul, who traveled with him to guatemala where he goes and performs eye surgery. they played a video of that. those are just two examples of how they are trying to fill out his biography

i'm ashleigh banfield. well tom to "legal view."ourthouse today in boston as part one of the trial of the

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." a week and a day since that horrible plane crash in the french alps. and now some evidence, some video evidence of just how remote and removed this crash site is now eight days later, are we getting a very close-up view via some video of the germanwings wreckage from the actual ground. take a look at this. you had heard days ago there was nothing left of this plane that was at least the size of a car or larger. and that is the pure evidence there. it is all located in the series of narrow ravines deep in the alps where you just can't get to except for a brand-new road that they've been able to carve out. the challenge goes two ways. it's hard to get people in and extra hard to bring pieces of the plane and also the remains of the 150 people who were on board. notice how these recovery workers are handing pieces of the plane, notice how the entire recovery process is happening by hand, one piece at a time. you pan over, all of a sudden you see, they're just tos

i'm ashleigh banfield. and welcome. this is "legal view."r, we have brand new information about that fatal encounter between a south carolina police officer and a man he pulled over for a broken taillight. now details about what happened in the moments before that shooting happened. and it comes from the bravy witness who shot this video, a video that could ex-pose a possible murder. that's the charge and so far, it's the story. in the meantime, the north charleston pic

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal ."

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> hello. everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." we begin this hour with breaking news. it comes in the war against isis. federal investigators charging yet another american with trying to join the terror group. this time, a woman from philadelphia. her arrest is coming on the heels of three terror arrests just yesterday, two women charged in new york for plotting a pressure cooker bomb-styled attack. and a 29-year-old american who was detained in pakistan and secretly flown to new york to face a federal judge for, again, plotting to attack americans abroad. joining me now to discuss these developments, our alexandra field, and paul cruickshank will join us soon alexandra, i don't even remember half the cases i've reported on that seem so similar. what's the story behind the philadelphia woman? >> it shows this wide net cast to try to prevent attacks that could be imminent or people who want to suggest they might be capable of doing something. >> did she do anything imminent? >> she tweeted. then she took st

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield.w." if you're counting the number of official investigations into the unexplained death of freddie gray stands at four. the latest being a federal probe into potential civil rights violations arising from gray's arrest a week ago sunday in a baltimore housing project. the arresting officers say gray was taken in, quote, without force or incident. but

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield.we are following breaking news out of south carolina. its police officer to accused murderer in the blink of an eye. a shooting near charleston igniting the debate over excessive force by police. officer michael sleger is behind bars right now and he's charged with the worst of the worst, first-degree murder. that for killing this unarmed man, 50-year-old walter

i'm ashleigh banfield welcome to "legal view."lice once again filling the streets of baltimore a mid the ongoing state of emergency there. but no burning, no looting, as we saw earlier in the week. we're expecting a p

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." we are following breaking news out of south carolina. its police officer to accused murderer in the blink of an eye. a shooting near charleston igniting the debate over excessive force by police. officer michael sleger is behind bars right now and he's charged with the worst of the worst, first-degree murder. that for killing this unarmed man, 50-year-old walter scott, father of four and a u.s. coast guard veteran. disturbing bystander video shows the shooting in traffic detail. slagger shot at scott eight times as scott was running away. five of the bullets hit scott, killing him. slagger says he feared for his life when he fired those shots. but the video shows a very different account. i'm about to show you the entire video of the incident that was shot by that bystander. everything happens very quickly and it's not always easy to make out what's happening. so i'm going to draw your attention to a few things to watch for as you watch this incident play out.

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield." a week and a day since that horrible plane crash in the french alps. and now some evidence, some video evidence of just how remote and removed this crash site is now eight days later, are we getting a very close-up view via some video of the germanwings wreckage from the actual ground. take a look at this. you had heard days ago there was nothing left of this plane that was at least the size of a car or larger. and that is the pure evidence there. it is all

i want to bring in my panel ashleigh banfield suni and joey. the jury was told you're not able to discuss deliberations? >> they walk by newspaper boxes and televisions and not supposed to be seeing coverage. thai not supposed to be seeing our conversation about what it is they're about to do the mitigators versus aggravateors and death phase et cetera. they're going to have to eventually make the decision mark was talking about. do they give them death? you look at this case. they're all death qualified through the initial process. this is not that difficult. for worst of worst, and he's one of them it's not that difficult. he's 21 years old. if he chooses the root timothy mcveigh chose, he'll be a martyr in four years. that's how he went to the chair. he waived appeals he was allowed to. he didn't rot in a cell for what could be 60 plus years. at 21 years on the line he's got a long life ahead of him. he could have a very uncomfortable life in a cell or be what timothy mcveigh did and become a martyr. >> does he want to be a martyr? >> that's

before i bring in ashleigh banfield the final question to you. we'll go through aggravators and mitigators with ashleigh. judy clark, tsarnaev's lawyer will try to make this case he deserves sympathy. at the same time, isn't what he wanted -- some made the case if this is someone who is a true jihadist he would have wanted to die in the case of this crime. in the process of this crime. he seemed to want to live. he drove away, tried to escape. very different actions than his brother tamerlan. do you think the jury looking at that may say, the death penalty is a fitting punishment for someone like this. >> there's no question if we look at this analytically this is a death penalty case. death penalty is appropriate sentence for somebody that did what they did to individuals our country, and the way they did it. judy clark's job is to try to do whatever she can to convince this jury we have to be better than what we would tomorrowly consider that vengeance we want to give retribution we want to give. what judy has done so far is plant seeds during t

and thank you everyone, live in baltimore, i'm ashleigh banfield.ned, wolf starts right after this break. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer, it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington, also 1:00 p.m. in baltimore, 7:00 p.m. in paris, 8:00 p.m. in baghdad, wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news. the police investigation into the death of freddie gray is now in the hands of the prosecutor's office. gray's death in police custody in baltimore at the center of all the unrest that occurred earlier in the week. it'll now be up to the state's attorney, marilyn mosby to determine whether charges will be filed against any of the six police officers involved in gray's arrest. baltimore police commissioner anthony batt says the people deserve transparency and truth, he says more than 30 detectives worked to get the report finished. >> this does not mean that the investigation is over. if new evidence is found, we will follow it, if new direction is given by the

i'm pamela brown in for ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view" on this monday. we begin with breaking news. a shooting on the campus of wayne community college that's in goldsboro, north carolina. one person is dead and the shooter is still at large at this hour. our rosa flores joins us with more details. rosa? >> hi, pamela. we are getting new details at this hour. police tell us that they have a person of interest on the watch. this person is still on the loose, they tell us. the name kenneth stanzell probably about 20 years old. authorities believe he knew the victim in this particular case. authorities not telling us any motive at this point in time, but here is what we know, pamela. according to authorities at about 8:10 today, there was at shooter who entered that campus and on the third floor near the library, one of those buildings, shots rang out. one person was found dead and from what we know from authorities, only that individual has been injured. authorities have given us a description of this particular man by the name of kenneth stancele in his 2

i'm ashleigh banfield welcome to "legal view." people and police once again filling the streets of baltimore a mid the ongoing state of emergency there. but no burning, no looting, as we saw earlier in the week. we're expecting a police briefing that's to come at any moment now. we're going to bring it to you live as it happens. i want to give you a quick check of the headlines right now and they are ever changing. new arrests overnight. this time, though, the number stands at 10 and that is far fewer than the 235 that police made the night before. also, only one police officer hurt last night and that compared to 20 who were injured on monday. some very seriously. 2,000 national guardsmen and 1,000 police officers were on duty on the streets of baltimore. a curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. remains in place but god news today, as baltimore city schools have, in fact, reopened, the students back in class. the same cannot be said for another institution and that is camden yards. in about two hours, baltimore orioles scheduled to

i'm pamela brown in for ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." breaking news out of tulsa, oklahoma, we are following where a reserve deputy turned himself in to authorities on charges of manslaughter. and soon after, left the jail after posting a $25,000 bond. take a look. this is robert bates, arriving at the tulsa jail a short time ago, the officer who says he mistakenly used his gun instead of a taser to shoot a suspect. bates said nothing as he left, but his attorney gave a brief statement. >> mr. bates was surrendered today and booked. in light of the charges he's not going to make a statement. we -- we'll defend this in the court of law and that's what we're going to do and when he has his opportunity to speak at the conclusion of the case he will do so. okay. thank you very much. >> [ inaudible ] the charges. >> i feel they're unwarranted and shouldn't have been brought. >> can you talk about how the benevolence has turned out to be evil? >> that's the surprising thing. the fact that this man has been good to the community and has been be

i'm randi kaye in for ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." major international anti-terrorism operation is going on right now. police with handfuls of arrest warrants for islamic extremists, suspected bomb makers, people who once dealt directly with osama bin laden, some have been under surveillance for years and today they are being rounded up. here's where it's happening, all over italy. officials there have never gone after so many terror suspects at the very same time. and this explains some of the urgency, evidence shows that this terror cell had a list of targets and on that list, the home of the pope and heart of the catholic church, the vatican. today's countrywide operation is the payoff from years of wire taps and other intelligence gathering that pointed to men believed to have played a part in bombings overseas that killed hundreds of people. cnn's nic robertson is following developments in italy for us right now. also here with me in new york is terrorism analyst paul cruickshank. is the massive terrorism operation still going on

i'm randi kaye in for ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view."errorism operation is going on right now. police with handfuls of arrest warrants for islamic extremists, suspected bomb makers, people who once dealt directly with osama bin laden, some have been under surveillance for years and today they are being rounded up. here's where it's happening, all over italy. officials there have never gone after so many terror suspects at the very same time. and this explains some of the urgency, evidence shows that this terror cell had a lisof

i'm pamela brown in for ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view" on this monday.news. a shooting on the campus of wayne community college that's in goldsboro, north carolina. one person is dead and the shooter is still at large at this hour. our rosa flores joins us with more details. rosa? >> hi, pamela. we are getting new details at this hour. police tell us that they have a person of interest on the watch. this person is still on the loose, they tell us. the name kenneth stanzell probably about 20 years old. authorities believe he k

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts in one minute. big day? ah, the usual.oved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. in the country. we operate just like a city, and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal, generating electricity on-site, and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we're very focused on reducing our environmental impact. and natural gas is a big part of that commitment. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're following breaking news involving those nuclear talks with iran, also expecting a live news conference out of france about the crash of that germanwings plane. we're going to bring it to you live once it h

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i'm deborah feyerick in for ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." we have a lot to talk about. we're beginning with breaking news. former new england patriots super bowl star aaron hernandez guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of odin lloyd on june 17th, 2013. he was sentenced moments after the guilty verdict was read. he will now serve lifen

i'm deborah feyerick in for ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." we have a lot to talk about. we're beginning with breaking news. former new england patriots super bowl star aaron hernandez guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of odin lloyd on june 17th, 2013. he was sentenced moments after the guilty verdict was read. he will now serve life in prison without the possibility of parole. any minute now we are expecting that the prosecutor as well as the district attorney in the case will come out and speak live about this case. of course we're going to bring you that as it happens. but this morning, after 35 1/2 hours, seven days of deliberations, going over months of testimony, the jury of seven women and five men handed down its unanimous verdict. >> madam foreperson, indictment 2013-9 a-3-a charging the defendant aaron hernandez with murder, what say you, madam foreperson. is the defendant not guilty, guilty of murder in the first degree or guilty of murder in the second degree? >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> madam fore

i'm pamela brown in for ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view."f tulsa, oklahoma, we are following where a reserve deputy turned himself in to authorities on charges of manslaughter. and soon after, left the jail after posting a $25,000 bond. take a look. this is robert bates, arriving at the tulsa jail a short time ago, the officer who says he mistakenly used his gun instead of a taser to shoot a suspect. bates said nothing as he left, but his attorney gave a brief statement. >> mr. bates was surrendered today and booked. in light of the charges he's not goin t