. >>> and now let's bring in abc news chief legal analyst dan abrams. i want to read this quote from the d.a., kevin steel. he said cosby is free on a procedural issue that is irrelevant to the facts of the crime. explain what that means and how this happened. >> reporter: yeah, the supreme court here made no judgment about the facts of the case. the underlying truth of what happened here. what they did say is that that assurance made by the d.a., the first d.a., led bill cosby to answer questions in the civil case that he wouldn't have he would have, might have invoked his right against self-incrimination. new d.a. comes in, says, we want to use those statements, uses the statements and the pennsylvania supreme court ruled that the entirety of that was fundamentally unfair, so much so that they weren't going to just order a new trial, they were literally going to dismiss the charges and say that bill cosby cannot be retried again for these charges. >> and many people are now wondering if this is the end of the road. does this bar any future prosecution

dan abrams who is the author of the new work, kennedy's avenger and the forgotten trial of jack ruby. the criminal justice system. you have got george floyd, you have got the witch hunt in washington. everyone is zeroed in on justice in america and what's fair and unfair. why are people going to watch this use show in your opinion? >> it shows you the stakes when a criminal defendant takes the witness stand. in most cases murder defendants don't take the stand. why? because they are guilty and can't explain exactly what happened. in many cases it may be worth it. or in many cases as you will see on court cam under oath, the defendant decides i want to present my side of the story. why i didn't do it at all. thin the whole case end upcoming down to that person's testimony. every other expert witness all becomes secondary to whether the jurors believe this person's testimony. as someone who covered trials my entire career. when the defendant in a murder trial takes the witness stand, everyone is focused on it because it's so compelling. we cover stories where defendants take the witness

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. >>> let's bring in abc news chief legal analyst, dan abrams. about it this way, the conservatorship basically says that britney spears can't make decisions for herself. put aside financial decisions. she can't even decide who she associates with, when she goes places, medical care for herself. if the court were to determine that she can hire her own lawyer, that's a big statement right there from the court saying, wait a sec, this court thinks that she can make certain very important decisions. >> yeah, big statement, big step right there. what's the first thing you expect a lawyer to do if he is approved? >> well, if he is approved, i think he's going to try to end the conservatorship. that's what britney spears says she wants, says she didn't know she could do and, again, if the court says, you can hire your own lawyer, i would expect that there's a very good chance that the court would then end the conservatorship as well, because it's saying you can make these sorts of decisions for yourself. that's why this is such a big deal. it extends b

. >>> all right, for more let's bring in abc news chief legal analyst dan abrams and, dan, good morning we think is going to happen next with the new attorney. obviously he said they wanted to move promptly and aggressively. >> and i expect it'll be a matter of days or weeks, not months, in terms of filing this next motion. but let's take a quick step back here and recognize how big a deal this is. the fact that she's now being allowed to choose her own lawyer means that it's not going to be people who are going to be in court saying, oh, i think this is in britney's best interest or her best interest would be this or that, he's now a lawyer who is taking directions from her to say, this is what i want. d a resuli think you'll erest see a very different tenor moving forward. >> and we also heard some very serious allegations that britney hatr jamie spears saying, actually conservatorship abuse, we don't know specifically what that is. obviously we've heard from jamie earlier saying he denies any wrongdoing and he actually said, yes, let's have an investigation. do you think we'll see so

dan abrams joined gma to talk about the importance of yesterday's ruling. >> the fact that she is now allowed to choose her own lawyer means that it's not going to be people who will be in court saying i think this is in brittany's best interest or her best interest should be this or that. it is now a lawyer taking directions from her to say this is what i want. this is what is in my interest. as a result you will see a very different tenor moving forward. >> lawyers for jamie spears are arguing for their side to be heard saying there are misstatements in brittany and her they approve the resignation of the financial firm as co- conservator. it means as of now, jamie spears is the sole manager of his daughters $60 million estate. >>> in france, widespread protests erupted in paris over proposed covid-19 restrictions. the government wants to expand a health pass system for people going to bars and restaurants and movie theaters. it would show whether someone has been vaccinated or tested negative for covid-19. the government wants the vaccination of healthcare workers to be mandatory .

let's bring in our chief legal analyst dan abrams for more on this. dan, good morning to you.'s start with the big picture. weisselberg as we heard reportedly has not been cooperative so far. that could change of course. what could this mean for donald trump and his family? >> right, so first of all, donald trump has not been indicted. none of his family members have been indicted and allen weisselberg is not cooperating. the flip side of that is that as terry points out, donald trump signed some of the checks at issue here, and you have to believe that this is the beginning of the investigation. this investigation started when michael cohen reported other stuff about inflating or deflating prices of real estate, et cetera. we don't know what's happened to that piece of the investigation yet. so i think that this is really step one in terms of this investigation. >> and we've heard donald trump's take on all this. he said this is a political witch-hunt. do you think that's where the defense in this case is going to go? >> yeah. i think they'll have to make a different argument

abc news chief legallablist dan abrams. >> it is possible the court could say we're going to allow youdecisions for yourself but for now we're going to keep the financial conservatorship in place. they may get rid of both of them as well. >> britney is reportedly in discussions with former federal prosecutor to become her new attorney. he is expected to appear in court remotely today. >> thank you. >>> one of the candidates seeking to oust governor newsom in the september recall election just held his first campaign event. >> does larry elder submitted paperwork in the suburb of norwalk. the conservative radio host focused on families and affordability. >> people have now left california. businesses are leaving. young families are leaving. and i want to make sure that we preserve the california dream so you can get a home, make sure you educate your kids, make sure you can live the california dream. >> friday's the deadline for candidates to enth so fzens plan c t attacks if from her own party. over the weekend jenner got heckled about her gender. and this week congresswoman marjorie t

. >>> let's bring in our chief legal analyst dan abrams and channa lloyd of the cochran firm and channabid right now. will she succeed? >> i think she will. miss montgomery also requested a guardian ad litem be appointed to assist her in this process. i think she will be successful in getting to pick her own attorney. >> and dan, you said if she is indeed allowed to pick her own attorney the court will most likely end the conservatorship, but isn't there like some middle ground? >> yes, because there are effectively two conservatorships in place. one is on here person meaning, decisions she makes about medical care, who she associates with, et cetera, that is the one that i think kind of has to fall. if you let her pick her own attorney i think that one has to go too. you're basically saying she can make basic choices. that's a different issue than conservatorship over her estate, meaning her finances. so it is possible that the court could say we're going to allow you to make these decisions for yourself but for now we're going to keep the financial conservatorship in place, but, look,

. >>> linsey, we'll bring in our legal analyst right now, dan abrams. cosby, again, maintaining his innocence. but that is not what the court ruled. >> this opinion says nothing about his innocence. there is no judgment from the court here about whether the allegations are true or false. et cetera. it is only about this question about what the initial prosecutor had promised, assured the cosby team and the reason it's significant is because the argument is prosecutor assures cosby team not being prosecuted. cosby's team then agrees to do a civil deposition only because they know there's no threat of a criminal prosecution. makes incriminating statements and new prosecutor comes in, uses those statements against cosby, now the court is saying, the entire process was fundamentally unfair. >> the court also ruled he couldn't be retried in this case. is that unusual? >> that was the most surprising part of the ruling to me, the fact that the court could have said we're going to overturn this and order a new trial. but instead what the court said is that the

dan kerman kron. 4 news. 6.32 and a developing story, a san francisco law firm is going to file 1000 separate lawsuits. >> uber and lyft accusing them of assault. yeah, we've got llevan siamese simes abrams representing hundreds of women here in california and across the country where they say their rideshare experience turned dangerous. >> they say about a 3rd of the cases happened in california. a large chunk specifically right here in the bay area. >> this is the tip of the iceberg. as with any assault type of litigation. everyone has to says it's a it's about 5% reporting. so if you talk about 5% reporting. we talk about 1001 1000 cases that we not nationwide. that's a lot of women that have not had a voice is cases range everything from the worst things you can imagine a rape case. straight on trend down to. >> through grabbing road. >> dirty talk and looking at the at the windows locked down and the doors locked in another car and the person a thing of the get out the car, not knowing what's going to happen. >> hundreds more women have come many of these cases. they say the drivers. >> have taken advantage of their vulnerability when they were intoxicated or they had fallen asleep