>> attica's finch was listed as one of the 100 most popular heroes in american sentiment.as a prosecutor, that used to always take me off. he loses the case and that gets killed. then when his daughter is involved in the case, he'd obstructs justice by pretending to read the is not the killer. everybody loves that. even though he loses, the trucks and justice. when i was on "practice" we had a character that we spun off on another show who would destroy evidence. people loved him. it seems to me there has to be a free imagining from the public defender's office -- reimagining from the public defender's office about one we do. we all know where crime comes from. that group of people is also where crime victims come from. it is a lot easier to get people behind routing for the victim of crime, then the potential perpetrator -- than the potential perpetrator. where i think we are missing an opportunity is -- this will be controversial. nobody told us you wearing a dark suit, white shirt, tie. you look like a young republican, even if you are not. and i do not know where they

geneva where union leaders met to impose new sanctions against libya, embargo, visa ban aimed directly attica dav i and his family. >>> more on christiane's exclusive interview with gadhafi come up right after the newscast on "nightline"at 1 11:35. >> back here at home. san mateo police chief says the man fatally shot by officers had a long history of threatening police. 35-year-old robert karen killed outside his home on oak street at 11 this morning. police say karen opened fire as police tried to convince him to surrender. his mother says he was mentally il ill. >> he was pointing the gun and screaming in aggressive disturbed manner. >> item schizophrenic being. everybody knows. the police know. and he take medication. >>reporter: officers have been lacking for cash after he flashed a gun and threatened employee at nearby cvs pharmacy just minutes earlier. >> san joaquin county man got 3 life sentences today for torturing a tracy teenager. jury convicted anthony weider kidnapping child abuse torture and false imprisonment. he was the only one of 4 defendant to stand trial for holding the 1

. >> karen is a librarian attica brill 0middle school in santa clara a.she was one of 35 teachers whod a layoff notice. >> i did get my pink slip and been here 17 years. i have been educator for 35 years and been in the library almost 30. it's devastating. >>reporter: santa clara yawn fight school district has been building new libraries. yet because of potential state budget cut all 6 district librarians are expected to lose their positions. she has more seniority so it is likely she will end up back in the class room. >> the first time i have ever had to state of the art building. it has been my dream. a little sort of made do in education and l we have worked on it for two years. and l yes i won't be there. >>reporter: by law school districts must send outlay off notices by today. most of those could be resinlded if the state cuts don't go through. the governor is calling for a special june election to extend some current taxes. >> i'm hope fuchlt i am strongly your honoring bipartisan support for the governor solution. i hope the negotiations conclude quickly because we only have

aimed attica dav i surface to air missile sites and military airfields. 3 b 2 stealth bomber droppedrave, 2,000 pound bomb ona5 the hardn structure that shelter gadhafi fighter jets. here's what it looked like before. and after. some of the structures completely demolished. >> we have not observed lybian military aircraft operating since the beginning of military operation. >>reporter: with the lybian troop advance halted and air defense significantly degraded the no fly zone will be expanded west towards tripoli. some 600 miles. but there seems to be confusion about what happens when they get there. that strike on gadhafi compound even though his iconic tent sits near by they say it's not gadhafi himself targeted. >> i don't know much about the l location of the lybian leader nor have we expended 90 million tear effort in that regard. >>reporter: but british foreign secretary william haig refused to rule out gadhafi as target. telling the bbc that depends on the circumstances at the time. just one of the problems emerging in this hastily arranged coalition. just days ago the united

many lawyers went to law school because of attica finch, "to kill a mockingbird." he took on the case that could not be 1 and fought his best. that is what we all wanted to be when we grew up. recently in the state of michigan, there was a national study to show the state of michigan is failing to meet its constitutional burton's to provide free legal defense for criminal defendants. unfortunately, that is something that has to be addressed. in today's economy, how you pay for that? that is another issue we have to address in the short term. by and large, criminal defense attorneys are modern day john adams. by that, i mean, john adams actually defend it a british shoulder accused of murder -- actually defended a british soldier accused of murder which sparked boston tea party. he thought that was more important that one guilty man might get off -- excuse me, one guilty man out of 99 might get off rather than have an innocent man convicted. the shoe is on the other foot, the prosecutors. most of the prosecutors in our society are devoted civil servants who really t