months later, d.a. the prison about bill bradford. >> they tell me that his cellmate has come forward. and he has said that bradford's very angry at you, and he is talking about making plans to murder you and your family. >> reporter: of course in lewin's line of work, idle threats from resentful jailbirds were not exactly new. but this bill bradford guy caught his attention. he seemed as cold blooded as they come. so lewin went to talk to the informant. normally, if somebody comes to you with a story like that, they want a little time off their sentence or something. >> they want something, absolutely. >> reporter: not this guy. >> no. one of the first things i ask him is, why are you coming forward? he said, i hate the guy. i couldn't believe how he would talk about his wife, and how he killed her. and he said, now, he's talking about, you know, killing, somebody else's family. and i just couldn't stay quiet. >> reporter: lewin polygraphed the informant. he passed. and then added a warning. >> that br

but the d.a.>> she believed there was not enough evidenced to convict nick hillary let alone arrest him. >> not a winnable case. >> not a winnable case. >> the d.a. met with tandy and told her the same thing. >> she used like a scale as example and it was one little pebble at a time and they just didn't have enough yet. >> she couldn't get enough pebbles to tilt it this way. >> right. >> the case went into a deep freeze and it seemed like it might stay there. >> in that town, this sort of crime is so out of the ordinary, so unheard of, that the fact that they were not able to find someone quickly and make a case quickly and convict them quickly and put this behind them has been enormously frustrating. >> tandy, frustration. what is your word about how you feel? >> i don't know if i can say it on camera. just the level of frustration is -- there's no words really. >> out of frustration and sorrow, garrett's family, led by his uncle brian, put up "justice for garrett" signs all over the county. the

. >> but d.a. keen said he interviewed plenty other witnesses who convinced him he had the right man. in september 2005, four years after michele harris disappeared, the d.a. charged her husband cal with second degree murder. >> three state police personnel literally busted into my office, kicked the door in, jumped me, handcuffed me, shackled me and walked me out the front door of my office. >> you got a taste of law and order up close and personal. >> yeah. >> the d.a. was going to take the case to trial, even though there was no body, no murder weapon and even though he himself was by no means convinced he could prevail. >> i thought that it was maybe a 50/50 shot at a conviction, and i thought that a jury could go either way. >>> coming up -- >> it hurts, absolutely. all of it was just taken away. >> prosecutors come on strong. >> he told her that he would put a body in a place where it would never be found. >> when "dateline" continues. >>> in september, 2005, four years after his wife michele

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but in a stunning turn, the philadelphia d.a.'s office recently concluded much o the testimony against hicks was false. dna and other contradictory evidence cast further doubt. >> a rush to a judgment that he was him three times in the back. >> reporter: hicks marks the 16th exoneration since 2018 attributed to the philadelphia d.a.'s conviction integrity unit rebuilt by larry crazner who became d.a. well after hicks' conviction are these exonerations a win or a loss to a prosecutor's office? >> these are a win every prosecutor should care about the truth, should be seeking justice. >> reporter: the exonerations have put philadelphia's police department under a harsh light. a police spokesman telling nbc news the officers involved the hicks arrest have been placed on restrictive duty during an internal investigation. i think you would be justified if you were bitter are you bitter >> oh no no not at all, man. physically and mentally i wouldn't have made it through. >> reporter: though termaine hicks believes he was framed for a cr

the d.a.lking back his decision to get rid of all sentence enhancements, so now his office will seek sentencing enhancements in hate crimes, child abuse, elder abuse, human trafficking and other crimes that meet certain criteria. sentence enhancements can also add years to prison terms for defendants like gang members or felons who commit hate crimes or attack police. gascon warned sentence enhancements can load to excessive prison time that disproportionately affects black and latino defendants, but his initial move to get rid of all sentence enhancements got a ton of backlash from prosecutors, judges, crime victims and relatives. it's also causing a major rift, apparently, in the d.a.'s office. >> what just happened is everything he did is really, it rings hollow. because i'm not sure he even means it. i'm starting to see though that the only reason he made changes was because of all of the pressure. >> reporter: gascon's other sweeping changes include not allowing prosecutors to seek cash b

but what is new here, we've gotten this from people close to the manhattan d.a.'office, is that he's expected to vastly increase resources and personnel to investigate donald trump, president trump's business dealings, when the president leaves office in january. what sources are telling the fox business network is that d.a.cy vance could create what's known as a special task force inside the manhattan d.a.'s office to investigate president trump, his business dealings, his taxes, his dealings with insurance companies, his dealings with deutsche bank as well, one of the big banks that did business with donald trump, one of the few that did business with him after his brush with bankruptcy in the 1990s. why is this an important story? listen, if there's a special task force within the d.a.'s office, that's all they're going to do. they are going to devote time and energy to people on that task force just for investigating trump. so it's putting the target on him a lot more, a lot more seriously, and again, you know, the d.a.'s office does a lot of investigations, i

the d.a. says he's fit to stand trial. investigators spend time correcting evidence in the mountains. >> it's a mistake to think i can cover my crime. >> the d.a. said because the crime scene may be remote doesn't mean people can get away with it. >> there's so many people. the sheriff office is asking anyone with information to give them a call. >>> the sheriff's department is mourning the loss of a deputy. linton martin junior. he joined the sheriff department in 2001. he leaves a wife and several children. his oldest son is a sheriff deputy. >>> santa cruz county is calling on owners to help people from the fire. many of the survivors are lodge term residents who wish to remain in the air. the fire was started by lightning. >>> the bay air is preparing for coronavirus vaccine shipments. a look at the freezers that will store the first doses in marin county. >> the forecast what you can expect as we hit friday, saturday, sunday. >> steph curry interviews barack obama. . >> the u.s. leaching herd immunity over the summer.

the d.a. child, who will? so i don't know. i can't answer that question. i think a lot of people are asking that question. the d.a. now said that we don't need special enhancements, we don't need allegations because underlying crimes, serious murders and rapists they serve enough time, they serve 25 to life, they will serve 50 to life. the problem at that statement, you look at one of his special directives it indicates chide murderers, child rapists, serial killers, he will reevaluate their sentence after 15 years. so any of those individuals, right in his special directive he says he will reevaluate their sentence after 15 years. that is scary. that is scary. david: it is not only scary, it has been totally disproven by experience. it is not as though we haven't been here before. these are regressive. this always bugs me say progressive policies. these are regress serves policies. we tried them in the '60s, '70s, turnstile justice that releases prisoners too soon, that allows the community t

the d.a. aha charged isaiah lawrence with rape, attempted rain, kidnapping, and robbery. >>> young people accused of being part of an oakland drug ring are now facing charges of trafficking in the tender loin. officials said the arrests were part of a 16-month-long operation which has brought charms against 230 people. the charges include firearms, robbery, and child pornography. investigators say the suspects, several of wham are from the same family and live in the east bay, came to the tenderloin to sell drugs. >> this indictment filed today alleges that members of the cruz crime family live in the east bay and travel daily to the tenderloin to sell drugs, both to other drug pushers and directly to drug users. >> now, the defendants are in custody and appeared in federal court today for a detention hearing. >>> new information tonight on last week's crash involving a box truck that killed the cfo of sports basement and four other cyclists. prosecutors say the driver told investigators that

they're working with the department of violence prevention and the d.a.' the uptick and provide resources. as a department, as a city, as a community, we owe it to these juveniles to reach out to them and see how we can help them more than just making an arrest and getting a case charged. >> so here's the advice from oakland police tonight. they say be aware of your surroundings at all times. also be very conscious as you're getting in and out of your car and keep your doors locked at all times. heather. >> always good advice. really disturbing when you think about 11 years olds pulling off some of these crimes. cristina rendon reporting live, thank you. >>> mckenzie scott, the ex-wife of amazon's ceo jeff bay association, donates a staggering amount of money to help people in the pandemic. the bay area charity that helps so many people getting help from that big donation. we will hear what that money will be spent on coming up next. >>> and as we head to break, here is some good news to brighten your day. here's a picture of an army staff saring reunited

county district attorney, he's the new d.a.here, we're going to talk about what he is now doing and how prosecutors, judges, cops and it has victims' families up in arms. they say he will -- minority communities all for his own ego. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: okay, welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. look who's back with us, we had to have kt back on, former trump deputy national security adviser. kt mcfarland, what is going on with the government allowing this to happen? it's sending shock waves through the national security community, believed to be russia. what are your thoughts? >> oh, absolutely. this is the biggest hack. you know, what we need to do is to take a big step back and say this is not a trump screw-up, you know? this is not a biden screw-up, it's a government screw-up, and it's because we're -- we don't see this stuff coming. government's not very good at this. why? because government is always five or six steps

the d.a.hdrew it. then technology. the georgia bureau of investigation had searched stephen's computers, didn't find much. but now they had new software. the d.a. asked them to take another look. >> i thought there is no way that this guy has her panties in his apartment, has the hacksaw packaging in his apartment, has a key to her apartment, and committed this kind of murder and doesn't have an internet history that would blow your mind. there is no way that's possible. >> so he asked the experts to look for anything related to lauren giddings, sex, and violence. >> and when they did, it just exploded. it's obvious that he has a fascination with sadistic pornography -- murder, torture, dismemberment. >> that's digging under a layer of things which had been erased and expunged apparently from the computer. >> yes. >> they never go away. >> yes. and what they found told us everything we needed to know about stephen mcdaniel. >> kell >> tell me more about that. >> some of it's so bad that it can

county new d.a.controversial blanket order of getting it of all sentence enhancements and also apologizing for this, he made, being shouted at by a group of grief stricken mothers of murder victims. >> it's unfortunate we do not have enough information. >> never speak again because he was murdered. >> is, there is not going over well. releasing a statement saying he will contact the families within the video to speak with him directly and hear them out. the d.a. announced he's walking back his decision to get rid of all sentence enhancements. now his office will seek sentencing enhancement and hate crimes, child abuse, elder abuse, human trafficking and other crimes that meet certain criteria. sentence enhancements and more time dependence like gang members or felons who commit hate crimes or attack police. bascom warned hundreds enhancement can lead to excessive is in time that disproportionately affects black and latino defendants but his initial move to get rid of all sentence enhancements a ton o

she says a new d.a.rge gascon is sending the wrong message if he stops charging juveniles as adults. >> learning that, oh, i can go out and kill somebody, and the law is just going to slap me on the wrist and put me in time out like i am three years old, then released me back into the streets, so i can kill again. >> tucker: her child was murdered. does george gascon care? of course not. does george soros care? well come he sent $2.2 million to george gus cohen. that answers the question. the grieving mother, she cannot raise money for the democratic party or blm. no one cares what she thinks. we think it is important to hear directly from the people whose lives are affected, overturned, in some cases ended, by george gascon and george soros, who funds him. we are going to bring attention to that right now. christina solano is the sister of the officer we told you about, joseph solano, who was murdered, and we are happy to have her on tonight. christina, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you for

we have a d.a. backed by george soros who is now told the d.a. they can't go to parole hearings.cently, day 2, there was a murderer who was up for parole, and he was released on day 2 of this d.a., and he was released,n and ada wasn't present for the parole hearing, wasn't present to fight for that victim, and that victim was re-victimized.as i do not understand how any of these policies at all provide safety for anyone. >> tucker: do you have any doubt that the net effect of this overtime will be death? people beingth killed, people being raped, people being hurt in violent crime? >> the reason i came forward and risked my job is because of that. because i cannot sit idly by and watch somebody get released and a child get killed, or a police officer get killed, or a child get raped, or a vulnerable person get raped, or a person of color get discriminated against and get killed. i don't understand how any of these things are reforms. i think, when you talklkag about people in prison, the majority of people don't want to a lot of people in prison. however, the normal person, the n

now, the d.a. won't say what charges that officer is facing. last month you might recall the d.a. filed charges against another police officer for homicide. it stemmed from a shooting three years ago when police say o'neil stole a state lottery van and led officers on a chase before he got out and ran. body cam footage shows officer christopher samoa fire his gun through the passenger window of his patrol cruiser killing o'neil. >>> let's take a look outside at the trump white house where a judge has reinstated daca. the obama era program shields undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children from deportation. president trump ended daca in september 2017 arguing it was unconstitutional. >>> ahead, getting kids back to class sooner than later. one bay area lawmaker has a plan. what he wants schools to gear up to do. >>> also what about the potential side effects? what we're learning about the pfizer vaccine as the bay area prepares to receive its first batch of doses as early as next week. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, tracking some isolated wind for the mount

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for a full my chief of the d.a.'s international prey shin's widely sharing previously need to know intel in mexico poses a huge problem there is invent a corruption within mexico security forces and this one in danger agents informants operations in investigations the other problem area is that they're requiring all mexican officials to write a report every time they have communication with the well they're not going to work and answering their phones if they have to do their at each and every time as law enforcement officials the u.s. is outgoing attorney general was equally worried. the passage of this legislation can only benefit the violent trans national criminal organizations and other criminals that we're jointly fighting he said in a statement but what started all this was the us is arrest of mexico's ex defense secretary general salvatore c m fragos in los angeles 2 months ago. u.s. officials didn't inform the mexican government beforehand the president wasn't happy and neither was the army and so talks star

this marks the third criminal case the d.a. has filed against an sf police officer in less than a month. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. i'll show you how much rain and snow we picked up and details on more rain ahead coming up in about eight minutes. >>> a coyote in contra costa county linked to two separate attacks. how those attacks were tied together and what's being done now to try to find the animal responsible for attacking humans. ernest hemingway wrote the old man and the sea at 52 satchel paige was still dominating batters at 59. celia cruz was still winning grammys at 77 john wheeler illuminated our ideas of the universe at 70 and roger crouch was 56 when he first went into space your best is yet to come . >>> we return to our race for a vaccine coverage. it's like putting a man on the moon. that's how doctors are describing this historic day. the first doses of the vaccine arriving at hospitals around the country. a critical care nurse in new york city was the first american to receive the injection. 145 o

many my first office with law was d.a.'i was a certified law clerk for them the second summer. the d.a. are in open rebellion against the radical left wing guy.y. i want to remind people that george soros spent $2.5 billion to get this man elected and he displaced the incumbent who was a black female who ran last time unopposed. that is how strong she was. i thought the left was concerned about the gender and racial diversity but they have no problem getting rid of a black female d.a. a in california this is a single party state, jason. the democrats not only have a majority, they have super majorities in the senate and in the assembly. so it doesn't even matter how left wing the law is, if the governor were to repeal it, they have enough votes to override his repeal. so it doesn't matter. we have illegal aliens who can wive legally in the state. illegal aliens who can get in-state tuition and understood funded liability of trillion dollars and highest marginal state income tax rate in country at 13.3%. they want to raise t

. >> the d.a.t have any evidence to arrest holbert for kelli's disappearance, but he did discover holbert was violating the terms of his parole. >> he was a prior sex offender, and he was not registered properly, and he was placed in jail. >> sex offender nicholas -- >> right where detectives wanted him. now they could watch holbert, see if he blabbed to a cell mate about what happened to kelli. they also questioned him twice, even took him back to froggy bottoms to jog his memory, but holbert stuck to his same, though sometimes inconsistent story. >> you caught him in lies but you couldn't crack him? >> exactly. >> by now olivia and matt had left fayetteville and gone home. >> you must have felt kind of like you were leaving your sister behind even though realistically you can't stay forever. >> i remember feeling defeated. we came up here thinking that something was going to happen and it didn't. >> i don't know. i felt like i didn't sleep for a couple of weeks. it was 24/7 thinking about what ha

county d.a. the cbs l.a. local reports it this way. death penalty "off the table," and will seek to resentence inmates on death row to life in pri. he goes on to say he won't file enhancement saying it undermines rehabilitation, exacerbates and unnecessarily crowds jails and prisons. i was reading some of the details of these cases where he's considering rolling back some of the sentencing. they are disgusting and they are terrible and it broke my heart. we can't even really get into all of them on the air. i think people -- their stomachs would be turned. so why would, brian, a prosecutor decide to come in and say, not only am i not going to prosecute hideous crimes but i'm going to go back and change some of the sentences. >> shannon, i'll tell you this. this new district attorney, this is the most catastrophic abuse of power i have ever seen in my entire lifetime. this new district attorney, he does not care about the victims of those who have been murdered. he does not care about the voters in los angeles county. he does not care a

county d.a.'s office had so far declined to issue a warrant for howard's arrest.'s son michael wanted answers. >> there was a long time when erwin was walking around free. >> seemed like decades. it was so frustrating, painful, emotional. >> jimmy gates was feeling all those same things. and soon his hard work started paying off. that unusual red tape found on deede's body? a specially trained dog found erwin's scent on it, and detectives found similar tape at erwin's workplace, that american airlines hangar at l.a.x. but what about erwin's alibi? computer records showing him at work in that same hangar the night of deede's disappearance and that he'd worked a ten-hour shift. it turned out that the more detectives dug into that alibi the less solid it seemed. detective gates painstakingly dissected the procedures at the hangar, and he found this. erwin howard could swipe into work at the employee parking lot using a key card at this turnstile, then clock in inside the hangar. but he could also leave whenever he wanted by walking out the large bay doors and catchin

the d.a. is saying that the covid-19 issue is not a problem in their prison.nmates, it would create way more crime and victimize more american citizens. let's watch sheriff barns on this. let's take a listen. >> the only inmates remaining now are serious offenders. order release of 1800 inmates, 700 of which would be medically vulnerable i think is absurd. medical vulnerable, 90 are in custody for murder or attempted murder. >> 94 for child molestation. it is incredible order placed on me. i have no intention of doing that, releasing these individuals back into the community. i think they present a serious threat. everybody in the community is at risk of covid right now. we have a surge happening throughout the nation. to totally discard that, consider these people being vulnerable, not consider the risk to the public when they are being released back into the community, that is axe sured, it places the community at significant risk of being victims of crime, many of them very violent crimes. elizabeth: yeah he is i saying you will have more violent crimes. th

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are now seeing that with their new d.a. he promised radical changes by those who believe being tough on crime does not work. last month voters who elected him over the incumbent democrat, a black female, saying that they were not liberal enough. a repeat dui offender accused of murder in a crash this year will have additional charges against him dropped. these are enhancements based on past convictions. a similar situation for this man who was accused of killing an off-duty sheriff deputy and another man. still moving ahead on the murder charge, the new d.a. wants to drop the gun on multiple offense enhancements. in both cases dropping the aggravated factors opens up their shot at parole and victims' families are not happy. >> i can't sleep about it. i can't think that this guy could be out in 15, 20 years and he still going to be in his 40s. >> you cannot randomly start changing and dropping charges. really look at what you're doing. this is devastating to us. >> california has about 100 so-called sentencing enhancements t

in san francisco and there was a lot of issues surrounding his policies and how he ran the d.a.'s office but the hate for jackie lacey was so strong and so poignant and that was the focus it was the sex thing thing to do. kratz and donald trump he's a racist we hate him you know the talking points look at what he's doing now joe biden you know if you have black if you even black enough you know if you don't vote for me it's easier to focus on a target they do with a new line it's what they can do they understand of voters are actually not paying attention to the nuance nuance and they focus simply on i hate this person so i'm going to vote here is really that simple oh look aggressive actually progressive actually want action yet you know at the end if you did i give you my quest all to live or that's going to exacerbate i give it 24 months if even that good sign you know i get it i give it is that in the calendar year of 2021 i did. it i think because i'm sorry i didn't the buyer's remorse is this i mean particularly if trump throws his hat in on inauguration day oh no that. you

we recognize the d.a.'office is not going to walk away from a homicide. >> from your perspective on a new trial, how will it look differently? >> better for me. that's how it will look differently. >> unfortunately for charlie's attorneys, they'd already played their surprise defense, mom really did it. there would be no shock value in a second trial. >> frankly, we've got to face this like it's a brand new case starting today. >> in november of 2015 just weeks after the trial ended both sides were back in the same court before the same judge, judge pampiano, who just two days earlier had won that state supreme court seat. it was a routine hearing to talk retrial logistics. >> we were figuring a january trial date. >> reporter john hand, who'd been there for the entire trial, was in attendance too. >> there was a number of charlie's friends there. myself and roughly four or five other reporters who had covered the trial. the gang's all here. and the judge said we have to address the motion for dismissal by

he called a detective in the d.a.'s office, clint snyder, who had worked high profile cases.e the notorious wichita btk serial killer. >> it was an amazing story when ron told it to me. all these mysterious deaths. in this business, don't believe in coincidences. i felt like ron was on to something. >> and he enlisted another big gun to help i.d. castro. john sullivan. >> we checked our fbi data bases and private data bases. i had the offices go out and get photographs, pull arrest records. we checked every lou castro that we could find in the u.s. and none maxed the lou castro that we had living in wichita. >> how unusual is that? the. the fbi with all its resources, cannot come up with a name and an i. dorks a guy. >> that's extremely unusual. specially in this day and age. everybody has a trail. there should have been credit records, drivers license records, all sorts of records. and we could find none. >> none of the car purchases, the property deeds, even the utility business at angel's landing were under the name lou castro. they were all under the names of commune memb

the d.a. brought in a specialist, a forensic pathologist, to do a second autopsy a few days later, and the result this time told a different story. >> we knew she did not die in that fire. she died before the fire. >> reporter: the second pathologist discovered there was no carbon monoxide in catherine's blood or soot in her lungs, which meant catherine had stopped breathing before the fire started. she changed the manner of death from accidental to pending investigation. >> the question is what else can we gain or learn before we can start to classify this as a homicide. >> who do you look to as the suspect? >> the state police had done some initial interviews. obviously the spouse is the first person you look to. the spouse had a new alibi. >> reporter: paul and his new girlfriend michelle lafrance said they were far from catherine's beloved red house when the fire broke out, a three-hour drive away in their apartment on long island. still, investigators didn't just take the couple's word fo

and the d.a., he believed steve.red him a qulers charge of murder to testify against morgan and charged morgan with premeditated murder. a mandatory life sentence. >> i think she found the most gullible person she could. she used him as a pawn to do her actions. he held the shovel but morgan held the strings. >> so you think morgan was in charge of this operation? >> 100% i believe that. morgan had a way with men. she just did. she had a way with men. and i think the same way that she had my brother under her spell she had this kid as well. >> reporter: and the d.a. says it was morgan herself who had been sending those fake text messages to kevin's family after the murder, not steve. cell phone tracking records proved it. >> she's texting kevin's family, assuring them that he's okay, he just wants to be left alone. she's the most evil woman i've dealt with. >> reporter: morgan mengel went on trial in late january 2012, a year and a half after kevin mengel had been murdered. but in addition to steve shappell waiting i