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rikki klieman, criminal defense attorney and top-flight former prosecutor, cnn legal analyst jeff toobineles, tom mesereau, who successfully defended michael jackson. welcome to all three of you. let me begin with you, rikki. is it fair to say maybe you can get a conviction in a murder case without a body as some prosecutor have done, but not without a clear motive? >> i don't think that's quite it. i don't think you need to prove motive. i mean, we know legally you don't need to prove motive. the prosecution certainly argued motive. they argued their version of motive. and the defense argued their version of accident. i think that the prosecution's version of motive was very acceptable to a jury. it just didn't happen to coordinate with the fact that so many other facts were missing or that facts were ambiguous. they couldn't pin the tail on the donkey. >> tom mesereau, what's your take on this? was there enough ambiguity about mote soif even if there was no real viable alternative somehow that was a downfall of the case? >> well, remember in the scott peterson death penalty case the th

jeff toobin and sunny hostin. we may have to wait to find out why the jurors did what they did.e are no jurors interested in speaking to any members of the media. they do, however, have your packets and they've asked for their privacy. >> cnn's martin savidge was in the courtroom today. he joins us live from orlando. martin, why are the jurors not talking? we're not going to even hear from the alternates, are we? >> reporter: no, we're not. this really came as a great surprise. there was the surprise of the verdict and then all eyes on the jury. the question, how did you come up with the verdict that you did. and, in fact, there were so many questions that had to be asked we weren't sure we'd get it in in in 45 minutes we would be allotted. i was given the opportunity to ask the first question. so much planning went into this news conference that everyone thought it was going to happen. seats had been set up. cameras were in place. everyone was ready apparently except the jury. they were not informed until they rendered their verdict. she came in and said no one, not any of the

jeff toobin, the judge just threw out that last-ditch effort by the defense to try to knock down the number of counts here and said, nope it's one year in jail for every count. she gets three years credit. really that is about a year, right? then pays $1,000 for each count. but here is what was interesting. the issue of appeal. i bet some attorneys are saying, are you kidding me? how much better can it get? why appeal? >> yeah. this was a surprise. most people convicted of misdemeanors do not get prison time in florida or anywhere else. this judge was clearly appalled at the nature and kept of the lies that casey anthony told to the police and just hearing them again in court, we are all reminded of just how sinister and awful these comments were to the police, and the judge did the max. he gave her the longest possible sentence he could give, which is four years. four one-year sentences to be served consecutively. now, there's a bit of legal confusion or complication, i should say. because it's not as simple as a four-year sentence. because she has served for nearly three years, i b

we'll talk about that and other points with senior legal analyst jeff toobin in just a few moments. and just to give you an idea of how captivated america was by the trial. cnn.com put up several stories about the verdict. just one of them got more than 20,000 reader comments. new details this morning about a cheating scandal in atlanta public schools. we're not talking about cheating public students talking about writing test answers on their palms ch tiers and principals are accused of tinkering with with standardize test schools, the ones that measure how the schools and students are doing. >> we cannot allow adult behavior to compromise the very tool which is we use statewide toe gauge a child's proficiency and whether or not he or she is prepared to succeed in the next grade level. >> more than 80 educators have reportedly confessed to the cheating. some of it goes back ten years and could bring criminal charges. now let's talk about the deal with dominique strauss-kahn. we learned his lawyers will meet with prosecutors today in new york. the maid who accused him of attacking h

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jeff toobin, we'll stick around. meantime, let us know, see us on facebook or follow us on twitter. i'll be tweeting throughout the program. as mentioned jeff is back with marcia clark to talk about what comes next for casey anthony. sentencing tomorrow on the lying charges, more on tonight's breaking news and dr. due pinsky on what casey's many lies tell us about her future. next, threatening to stand alone against what he calls a bad budget deal, even if it leads to the budget not being able to pay its bills. my conversation with senator rand paul. first though, let's check in with isha sesa why. >> 110 degrees in the shade is usually enough to tell that you fine six in the desert but never seen pictures like this before, incredible time lapse photography. that and much more when "360" continues. now?! [ female announcer ] crest whitestrips two hour express. in just two hours you can have a noticeably whiter smile that lasts for months. hi. hi. [ female announcer ] two hour whitestrips from crest. life opens up when you do. hiwhere we build eachre it all sof our customers. a better

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. >> jeff toobin, we've had this conversation before in high profile cases. does sunny have a point? one big trial i covered was the von bullough count. they tried to get seven counts. should they have taken one or two counts that they thought they had a stronger case on and focus there? >> it's not the number of counts, john. it's the death penalty. this was from the start not a case that cried out for the death penalty. there was so many holes in the evidence. where did she die? how did she die? what day did she die? none of this the prosecution knew. there were no eyewitnesses to the murder, as sunny said, the issue of motive was murky. in a lot of all that, some sort of accidental homicide would seem to have been a much more plausible theory. interestingly the alternate juror we heard from theory a lot of people had even though there wasn't much evidence. there was somehow some horrible accident, and casey and her father tried to cover it up and the thing snowballed out of control. that frankly is a lot more plausible as a theory than the intentional murd

let's go to jeff toobin.e go to a little reaction here. >> i'm interested by the fact that it took -- and i don't mean just, maybe it's a lot of time, maybe it isn't. they were prepared clearly this morning to have a verdict. does that surprise you. was it quit? was it not quick? >> i thought if they had convicted, i would have been just about the right amount of time. but obviously they went the opposite direction. they had listened very carefully, taken all their notes and what they thought was there's ott not enough evidence here, because they didn't ask one question, they didn't send out a note saying can we get a read back, can you tell us what this evidence was or a transcript read back? so they pretty much when they went in there had made up their minds okay, let's review this evidence and that's all the time they needed. so we can never say that a jury is too quick or too short because they took it seriously, they took the time they needed and they rendered the decision that they think the evidence su

jeff toobin, stick around. let us know what you think. we're on facebook or follow me on twitter @ john king cnn. jeff's back with marcia clark to talk about what's next for casey anthony. sentencing tomorrow on the lying charges. more on today's news and dr. drew pin ski of what casey's many lies tell us about her future >>> raw politics. he's threatening to stand alone about what he calls a bad budget deal even if it leads to the government not being able to pay its bills. my conversation with senator rand paul. first isha sesay. >> reporter: 110 degrees in the shade is usually enough to tell you phoenix is in the desert. but you've never seen the desert in phoenix quite like this before. incredible time-lapse photography. that and much more when 360 tins. for softer, stronger... ... hair with life. [ female announcer ] nourish plus. only from aveeno. >>> there are hints of eng lings of signs of compromise in cutting the nation's debt and raising the debt ceiling. very small hints late in the day. at the end of the day august 2 if a deal

jeff it toobin, always a pleasure.es being killed and thrown into dumps like garbage. some of them hung. feigned out why that's the horrific reality in pakistan now. >>> i want you to take a look at the video i'm about to play for you carefully. what you're about to see, here it is, wrapped in cloth are dead baby girls in a morgue. babies just like these are being found in garbage dumps all around pakistan, thrown away by families who just don't want them just because they're girls. and girls, by the way, are considered a financial burden on families there. i want you to watch this report. >> reporter: it's in garbage piles like this where according to an aid group pakistan's worst tragedy is unfolding. the killing and dumping of newborn baby girls. >> sometimes they kill, they hang -- >> reporter: they hang them? >> they hang them and sometimes they're killed by knife and sometimes we find dead bodies that have been burned. >> reporter: a manager at pakistan's largest privately run social service and relief agency. at

jeff toobin, stick around. we're going to talk cray crayto talk -- casey anthony soon. jeff's back with marcia clark to talk about what comes next for casey anthony. sentencing tomorrow on the lying charges. more on tonight's breaking news. and dr. drew pinsky on what casey's many lies tell us about her future >>> next raw politics. he's threatening to stand alone against what he calls a bad budget deal even if it lead to the government not being able to pay its bills. my conversation with senator rand paul. first let's check in with isha sesay. >> reporter: john, 110 degrees in the shade is usually enough to tell you phoenix is in the desert. but you've never seen the desert in phoenix quite like this before. incredible time-lapse photography. that and much mor >>> there are . you may be going up, but those roots are bringing you down! no time, running to a meeting. tut, tut, tut. they can wait 10 minutes. whoa! try root touch-up by nice 'n easy. to extend the life of your color. what if it doesn't match? nuh uh uh. nice 'n easy has 50% more shades than anyone else. so

jeff toobin, with the former prosecutor's instincts, what is your take from today, what would you be looking for based on what you heard from today? >> i would say just for starters there's virtually no evidence that says that rupert murdoch or anyone in this company violated u.s. law. i think it is far fetched to think there was any sort of criminal violation inside the united states. so, i think we can sort of cross this off the list. i do think that lots of people involved in this company are going to be prosecuted in great britain, and that is a big, big problem. and not so much because i think murdoch is going to be criminally cro criminally prosecuted, but the question is the very docile board of directors of news corporation, which is so dominated by the murdoch family, are the outside directors going to say, look, this is too much of a distraction, too much of a humiliation, to have these murdochs who were at best asleep at the switch, still in charge of the company? and that's the real peril at this point, it's will murdoch be in charge, will the murdoch family keep control,

in a moment i'll be talking to chief white house correspondent jessica yellin and cnn analyst jeff toobin will also weigh in. fist here's a look at the other stories i'm drilling down on tonight. talking to terrorists. america is reaching out to the muslim brotherhood. does that mean they're not terrorists anymore? >>> is egypt headed for -- and a distinguished american writer with a pulitzer prize. just one catch. he's not an american. jose antonio vargas doesn't even have a green card. america at its best or its worst. then, seven seconds. >> we're in the seven-second delay today? >> in television if you say something wrong, a seven-second delay can save you. >> i thought he was kind of a [ bleep ] yesterday. >> not this time. and then there were none from obama's original team of economic advisers. only treasury secretary tim geithner remained and word has just come in that geithner is weighing leaving office after the debt ceiling crisis is resolved. he talked about it today at the clinton global initiative in chicago. >> i live for this work. it's the only thing i've ever done. i bel

we'll hear from jeff toobin about that later. >> it's ironic that king of tabloid journalism appearing front page of the tabloids all around the world. dan rivers has a look. >> reporter: when big ben strikes 2:30 in london, the bell will be tolling. their appearance before a british parliament committee may be most important hour of their entire careers. the big political beasts in this building are smelling blood even if rebekah brooks' arrest may mean she's unable to shed light on what really happened. hacking victims like former deputy prime minister john prescott think rupert murdoch has a lot to answer for. >> everybody are scared to death to do anything he doesn't like. he's the spieder der in the midf this web and it's time we took him on. >> reporter: the chairman in charge of the grilling wants to hear why the company told him phone hacking was just the work of a rogue reporter and then later admitted that wasn't true. >> we took evidence from senior executives of news international and james murdoch is now publicly stated the public was misled. parliament takes that seriousl

jeff toobin, i want to ask you, clearly the prosecutors are not happy with this because they were soo you think was missing in this that just -- that the jury couldn't find -- came up with their decision? >> well, the pattern with jurors explaining their verdicts is that they almost never say that the conduct of the lawyers mattered one way or the other. i am almost certain you will hear that today. i don't think the lawyers matter that much. we who are following the cases pay attention to the lawyers, but the jurors always talk about the evidence. in this case the overwhelming piece of evidence that the defense had in its favor was no cause of death and no time of death. there was never even a theory of when or how or even -- why casey anthony killed her daughter. there is certainly a lot of evidence that she behaved terribly. that she lied about all sorts of things. but in terms of murder, much less first-degree murder, intentional murder, there really was a big gap in the evidence. i certainly expect that when these jurors come to explain their verdict, the failure to prove a time

we spoke to a lot of people including our sunny hostin and jeff toobin.ally astonishing development. this is the no serious sex crime now being prosecuted by the manhattan's d.a.'s office and suddenly advanced the case to today. they want to make a special appearance in front of a supreme court judge in new york to discuss bail conditions and, of course, the rumors are that their case is falling apart and may be they are going to have to walk away from this case. it's a really, really stunning development. >> scary part about it the manhattan d.a. came out extremely strong about this case when it first happened. >> credibility specifically of the witness. >> right. said it was the credibility of the witness that justified taking him off the plane. the perk walk which outraged many because of his status and did he mess up or did this woman, what may have happened? >> it's very interesting. because they have taken someone who was the french presidential candidate potentially in the future, the head of the imf. as you say, they pulled him off an internationa

know you said it could be up to four years if it's one year for each count, although as we said, jeff toobinif she walks out of the courtroom today, where does she go? >> reporter: that's another big question. she might have more problems out here on the outside than she does sitting in jail. there is a concern about her safety. already the officials at the jail here have put out a press release saying we are not going tell you when, where, or how she is going to get out just out of concern because of the intense emotional scrutiny this case has been getting. there has been absolutely no discussion about where she might go or what she might do after this happens. but this case has been intensely watched here in orlando, even more so than it it has around the country and other parts of the world. there are ten, possibly hundreds of thousands of people that would recognize her on sight and have a very strong opinion about her guilt or innocence in this case. >> david mattingly, don't go anywhere! anyone, don't go anywhere. we will be back in a second. the casey anthony sentencing starts in thr

i spoke a short while ago with our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff, thanks for joining us on this. casey anthony will get out of jail next week and go free after her not guilty verdict. can you explain to us how the judge came to, all right she has to spend another week in jail? >> what happened was she was acquitted of the serious charges, but convicted of four misdemeanors, which involved lying to the police. the judge gave her the maximum, but misdemeanors only come with a maximum of one years each. so he sentenced her to four years in prison to be served consecutive, but she's already been in prison for almost three years, and florida, like most states gives prisoners credit if they behave well in prison, as casey anthony apparently did. with those credits, she essentially has already served the equivalent of four years, so by next year she will have completed her sentence with the time she served. >> by next week? >> i'm sorry. by next week, yes. >> so he didn't really have any discretion, this was a mathematical? >> he certainly had discretion

i want to bring in our own jeffrey toobin. jeffcome as a surprise to you, the fact that now we've got strauss-kahn, who is being released, let go on his own recognizance because of questions about his accuser's credibility? >> i would say surprised is an understatement, when you have the government of new york state publicly committing itself to a major sexual assault prosecution, and then essentially overnight, virtually surrendering the case. it is a major, major surprise. the fact that without protest, they released dominique strauss-kahn on his own recognizance with no bail conditions at all, that is a shocking, major development in a case like this. >> where does he go from here? do we know if he's actually allowed to leave the country? i would imagine they would want to keep him close by, that the court has taken his passport? >> that is the one thing he is not allowed to do is leave the country. that was clear from our reports from inside the courtroom. he is not getting his passport back, but he apparently can come and go a

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our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin joins us now on the phone. and jeff, simple question is, looking at the elements as you see them, do you think the prosecution here has proven a case of first degree murder? >> you know, joe, based on my -- what i've seen of the evidence, i think first degree murder is a long shot verdict here. there are so many open questions. there is no time of death, there's no cause of death, and there is just circumstantial evidence, powerful circumstantial evidence that casey anthony killed her daughter, but i think first degree murder, which is premeditated, which is intentional murder, that's a long shot verdict. >> and so there are obviously a pa va ryety of other charges here including aggravated manslaughter of a child. do you see that as perhaps more in the mix for a jury to look at? >> i think casey told so many lies and behave sod oddly following the death of her daughter i would not be at all surpriseded to see a conviction in this case for any of thelesser charges like aggravated manslaughter, but i certainly don't see

our cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin joins us by phone from new york. jeffited years to file these charges against strauss-kahn. how does that affect her case? does it hurt her case? is it still viable right now? >> well, i think this is a very much long shot of a criminal prosecution. the french legal system of course is considerably different than ours, and an individual can initiate a criminal investigation in a way that the police have to do it in the united states, but the way it works is she is essentially going to the police in france saying please prosecute him for this crime, but it was eight years ago and even though that was -- that's within the statute of limitations in france, of course there's going to be no physical evidence eight years later. i expect this will be a very difficult case to pursue, though it is of course a serious embarrassment to dominique strauss-kahn. >> strauss-kahn is fighting back with a counterclaim against her. what is he saying? >> well, he's saying this is a libelous accusation and is filing a civil suit against the w

our first speaker, a man with whom you are all familiar is jeffrey toobin, a distinguished lawyer, author, and journalist. jeffserves as a senior legal analyst for cn and a staff writer at the new yorker and wrote pr files of justices breyer, kennedy, thomas, chief justice roberts, plus articles on such subjects as the legal implications of the war on terror, former attorney general john ashcroft, the florida recount, the investigation of bill clinton, trials of martha stuart, timothy mcveigh, oj simpson. his 2007 book, "inside the secret world of the supreme court" was a multiple award winner in a "new york times" best seller. please welcome jeffrey toobin. [applause] >> thank you, judge. good morning, everyone. thank you for having me. i am the only one here who works in television news, so i assure you my remarks will be the briefest of anyone else. i used to be an assistant u.s. attorney in brooklyn new york, in the eastern district of new york, and i had a conversation early in my career there that i'll always remember with one of my mentors in the office, a prosecutor, and we were talking about one of th

our first speaker, a man with whom you are all familiar, is jeffrey toobin, a distinguished lawyer, author, and journalist. jeff serves as the senior legal analyst for cnn and has a staff writer at "the new yorker." he has written profiles of justices briar, kennedy, thomas, and chief justice roberts, plus, articles on subjects such as the legal implications of the war on terror, former attorney general john ashcroft, the florida recount, ken starr's investigation of print -- president clinton, the trials of martha stewart, timothy mcveigh, o.j. simpson. looked's 2007 book inside the secret world of the supreme court and was a multiple award winner of the "new york times" best seller list. please help me welcome jeffrey toobin. [applause] >> thank you, judge. good morning, everyone. thank you for having me. i am the only one that works in television news, so i assure you of my remarks will be the briefest of anyone else. i used to be an assistant u.s. attorney in the eastern district of the new york. i had a common thing happen in my career with one of my mentors in the office, john gleeson. we were talking abo