>> no. >> judge jeanine: no?. >> judge jeanine: is it true, dale, that you asked two individuals to sign the signature of your dad after he died and then they went to court and offered statements saying that you had asked them to do that? is that incorrect? >> yes, let me tell you what happened. my dad was in the hospital dying. glen went down there and then he after my dad died and he never notified me, he was looting the estate. and then glen found out there was a will and he he also filed paper work in court saying there was no will. >> judge jeanine: let me ask you this, if there is a will from 1978 which i'm looking at, how is it that you you came up with a will dated 2002? >> i didn't come up with that. they didn't know about that one in 1978. >> judge jeanine: because it wasn't 2002 in 1978. but let me ask you this. i have a statement here from dave and alisyn and they say that you told them that they needed to sign a will and put your address on it and make some copies and don't give the original to any o

>> fine, thank you, judge. >> judge jeanine: all right.week, steven powell now on trial for 14 counts of voyeurism. i have read that you want to be in that courtroom. why do you think it is important to be in that courtroom? >> well, first, i misunderstood. i thought since i knew he took pictures of my daughter that she was part of the case. now, i understand it is just the neighborhood girls. but it is still the idea that perhaps he will say something that might lead us to susan. we still want to find our daughter. >> of course, you do. and, of course, it has is to irk you a little bit, chuck, because you have been on "justice" many times in the past and sade that the police were close to an arrest of josh and now, of course, you are left following josh's father's voyeurism trial. do you think that something may come up that will cause him to speak? >> well, i was hopeful. we thought josh had been arrested a long time ago. we thought police should have questioned all of the members of the family and that didn't happen. now, with josh gone

but here is the problem i have with this casey anthony, judge. twcase, judge. number one, the victim's family supports him. here is the other problem, judge, it took two years for the medical examiner to come up with a cause of death. >> he wants is you to look at everything over here and not at the facts that the defense the woman spray tanned and broke her neck is absolutely ridiculous. >> i will ask the viewers out there. how many of you have had a spray tan and had a violent reaction to a spray tan? really? >> go to my facebook if you had a violent reaction to a spray tan. >> 0.0. >> the medical examiner said there had to be sustained pressure on her are neck because of the bleeding in her muscles. >> may have been a choking and a homicide. >> two years to tell me that, judge. >> they tried to eliminate heart problems and carbon monoxide. if the husband says it was a reaction and it was a poison you better prove you already sued the spray tan company or i don't want to hear it as a judge. >> well, said, your honor. >> up next, a mom jailed for letting h her

arthur, is it up to the judge, does the judge have a choice, now, whether she should declare a mistrial as the defense is asking or does she have to take the verdict on count he? >>arthur: look, this happened to me two months ago so i have real expense here. usually the defendant gets a lot of persuasive powers over the judge. if the defendant says, look, your honor i don't care what you do with the other five counts whether you hang or don't hang them, obviously they say "hang them," but i want the verdict to be read, usually a judge will allow the verdict to be read. however, it is 100 percent in the judge's discretion. the rule of thumb is, a verdict is supposed to be read as soon as it is practical and i am sure judge napolitano will educate us on that. there is no surprise, there are in surprises here, megyn, the defense is asking for a full mistrial. that is what they are supposed to do. that is the script. there is a surprise for me personally the way this is handled. it is not the most professional situation. >>megyn: why if -- why? >>arthur: usually a jury comes out with a note

i'm judge jeanine ppirro.he has been gone for four weeks, missing from her tucson, arizona home since april 21. new details in the case may point to the suspect. >> someone broke in and grabbed her. >> judge jeanine: police released multiple 911 calls from the morning isabel vanished. >> she is only six. hurry, get somebody over here. >> after rushing back from work, her mother gets on the phone with 911, panicked. >> who notice her gone, your husband? >> my husband. i went to work this morning at 7:00 and i didn't check on her. i should have checked on her. >> okay. all right. just take a deep breathe. >> isabel's father sergio also speaks to an operator but he is calm. >> i want to report a missing person. my little girl is 6 years old. i believe she was abducted from the house. >> why did you think she was abducted? >> i have no idea. >> judge jeanine: his tone is asual. never anxious and at one point he even laughs. >> is mom there also? >> she has just left for work. i called her and told her to get her b

and state judges. we have a diversity center, which are the only four missions of the aba, one of them is to promote diversity with in -- within and without the profession. i saw recently a good trend that among the ivy schools and other schools that they are giving free admission, no longer loans they're loaning, but they're giving free admission to minority students to help provide more access for minorities. we have a long way to go to make sure that we can provide affordable law students' education. one thing that i did recently was one of my nieces, why do you want to go to this school, which was not in her home town where she could live at home and go to the school and not have to incur all those expenses, you know, you will get as good an education there. you need to make different decisions. we have got to give them a transparent environment to make the decision in. >> still another quarter, which indicates the enormous range of the subject matter, arbitration. is it a legitimate part of the le

will hand it to the judge. the judge will then check the verdict sheet to make sure all questions are answered. everything is appropriately filled out. it will go back to the clerk and the jury foreman. that way you don't have any wild cards or surprise like what that here. >> that's what i thought. i thought there was a standard disciplined procedure practiced in all court proceedings. >> reporter: it seem like judge eagle has brought them to the courtroom and said tell us what you've got without making sure everything was in order. it has put everybody on their heels. the jury is thinking, this will be a problem. they might have thought they did their job by reaching a unanimous verdict. they may have thought they're done. now they're being told to go back and see what they can agree on in the other five counts which appears to be almost insurmountable if this is how long it took to reach a verdict on one down. so they're going to be upset. they're going to be angry and frustrated and not able to focus on the

it is wonderful. >> jesus is an intimidating judge. >> indeed. it's not just the elections themselves. there are ways to conduct elections that can deal with some of the problems that you talk about. nonpartisan elections, public funding in north carolina for judicial elections. there are ways to deal with it so that the process, the reform that the jacksonians wanted to happen, you had to have judges present themselves to people, not just appointed from the wealthy classes. i can understand the impulse. the problem is that we've allowed a free for all in the election of judges. now citizens united will ratchet that up. the case in virginia, where the supreme court said the judge had to refuse himself after he received -- he hadn't really received it, but his election had been supported by $3 million by an individual that had a case before that judge in the west virginia supreme court. we only learned about that because west virginia happens to have an unusual disclosure law for independent contributions that most states don't have. we learned ab

some judges won't. take the position it's nobody's business what happened in the jury room. some judges take the position you jurors are free to speak to whoever you want. this is in the discretion of the trial judge. it's correct. whatever way the numbers went will be an indicator to the government about what they should do next. >> the judge says you can't ask the juries to do it, so you make friends with the u.s. marshalls that know everything that happened. bought italian cookies and hope they give you the real deal. >> neil: just cookies? >> it happens more than that. >> marinara sauce. thank you very much. >> our pleasure. >> neil: john edwards earned his fortune, if you will, as a trial lawyer and why he has the support of the community running for president. those skills, those assets, grace under fire, call it whatever you will, in the long trial helped him. he walks. [ male announcer ] this is genco services -- mcallen, texas. in here, heavy rental equipment in the middle of nowhere, is always

however, the judge did not take the verdict. that means we don't know whether it's guilty or not guilty, and they also said they had not reached a unanimous verdict on any of the other five counts in this indictment for which john edwards in total is facing up to 30 years in prison. such a long way to fall for him just to have to come and face these charges here in greensboro, north carolina. so the last place we left it was the judge had taken a five-minute recess after the prosecution had asked the judge essentially to send the jury back into the jury room, not take that one charge, and continue to deliberate. the defense taking the exact opposite position saying they'd like to hear what the result is on that one charge and declare a mistrial on all of the other charg charges. before throwing it back to you, kate, to be clear, i was not in the courtroom, in what's called the overflow room. i went there because the judge has threatened people in the court with contempt if they do things against her rules, which would include ge

especially federal judges. that's the point having lifetime tenure and having a salary, low though this may be, that can't be reduced is they're supposed to be able to take the heat. they're not supposed to try and calibrate between the two sides and say i don't know if the country is ready. they're supposed to make a decision based on what they believe is the law. >> do they represent democratic institutions? >> i think the institution is part of -- is a critical part of a democracy and is a democratic institution. i meant it's not a -- >> you're describing something that operates outside democracy -- >> no, the democracy -- remember the apparatus that creates the courts and that keeps the court there is democratic. it doesn't mean every function of the court has to be by majority rule. it's so much more than that. >> well, i think it have even a step beyond in the sense that in my view the values of the people are enshrined in the constitutions, which they have enacted, federal and state. and to the extent th

in large part due to a district judge federal district judge for us america is more free today than it was yesterday this was a hugely important landmark ruling it's very rare that a judge will declare unconstitutional an act of congress and that's what judge forested yesterday in a very sound very reasoned very persuasive and intricate constitutional opinion that held directly that when you have a law as vague as the n.c.a.a. or the so-called homeland battlefield act that seeks to put americans in jeopardy of being placed in a military brig or prison or in a military tribunal that this is a fundamental violation of our free speech rights it's also a fundamental violation of due process rights in this country because people should be entitled to know the standards by which they would be judged so this is truly a very important very critical ruling by judge forest yesterday and right now we're calling on president obama to issue a statement publicly that he will not appeal this ruling then what he will do is agree to enter into a permanent injunction so that never get will stay so this

circuit judge. this judge, judge russell, has public service in his d.n.a., both working as a u.s. attorney on the federal bench and also in his connection to everyday life of people. he has been on the board of directors of the enoch pratt library, big brothers and sisters and the community law center. he has often been recruited to be a motivational speaker, an inspirational speaker, particularly to high school and middle school students, to encourage them to really stay in school and off the streets. he has particularly been enthusiastic about mentoring young attorneys and law students. the reason i talk about his civic engagement is that we want judges who don't live in a bubble. you know, it's great to be a legal scholar. it's great to know the law inside and out, but a great judge really knows people, and this man, judge george russell, iii, by being out there, whether it's making sure that the library is there for young people who want to move up, big brothers and sisters to keep young people

administrative law judge's decision was a well reasoned want, well substantiated. and you will know that it will cost the district millions of dollars if you accept this this mean to burgeon that is being proposed by staff -- to accept this mutant version that is being proposed by staff. we hope he will consider the minister in a law judge's decision in its entirety and not the mutant version. the advice you were given regarding seniority failed to stand the test when subjected to objective judicial review. it is not a cause for joy and celebration for us. all it means is that you are a firing squad over here, and it gets to reorder its targets. this kind of target practice is wrong, and you know that. if you are relying on the and vice you are getting from the people you are dealing with now, then know what kind of trouble you are in. let me give you an example from earlier tonight. what was the two-year projection from your deputy superintendent two years ago? did he tell you that you would not have need to that had any employee contribution over the past two yea

judge nguyen worked her way up through school as a lawyer and prosecutor and as a trial judge. if she is confirmed today, she will be the first asian american female federal court judge, and i am proud to express my very strong support for her nomination. i'd like to conclude by expressing my view that it is absolutely critical that cooperation on judicial nominations continue. nearly 10% of judicial positions are currently vacant -- vacant, mr. president, as you well know, twice as many as when president bush left office. this high vacancy rate is today being felt more than anywhere else by states in the ninth circuit. california and arizona are home to some of the busiest federal trial courts in the nation. this means businesses, individuals, and prosecutors already are struggling with severely overburdened federal courts. the ninth circuit is also the busiest federal appellate court in the country. it has over 1,400 appeals pending per three-judge panel. the most of any circuit by a wide margin, and over twice the average of other circuits. the judicial conference of the uni

as a sock to southerners he appointed segregationist judges. the impact of that, if you would. >> the impact of it was huge. so just to take one of the judges he appoints harold cox in mississippi. harold cox was proposed to the eisenhower justice department as a judicial appointment and herbert bradl laughed when he heard harold cox's name. you can't possibly appoint this guy when kennedy comes in. harold cox gets appointed. cox was probably about the worst of the lot. because they can make his life unhappy also by blocking his legislation, by writing on federal administration, by depriving programs of money, and yeah, it's one of many instances where it requires a little bit of confrontation, and the president and the attorney general shied away from that confrontation and appointed a number of segregationist judges in the south and this was very, very important. one thing that people don't understand that we understand the role of the judiciary in little rock, the role of the judiciary was always key in the civil rights movement, civil right

the judge -- taylor showed no remorse for his crimes. he will spend his time in jail, at least of the 50 years, in a british jail, but he is likely to appeal. that is all for the moment. stay with us because there is plenty more to come here on bbc world news. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? wasbbc world news" presented by kcet, los angeles.

nol p rocess, the judge has a fee. you pay the money, right? there are people who cannot pay the money. they end up not being able to pay the money and and up getting arrested. is that part of it? i wonder where the scale for that feat comes from? -- for the fee comes from. >> it is legislative. in many systems, the money from fees and fines could directly into the general fund poor they are allocated to things like court security or other court functions. it varies enormously from state to state. there are issues to help people who cannot pay, but i am sure millions slip to the cracks. the fee question is interesting, and because when the crisis hit, a lot of state courts look at increases in filing fees to fund court functions. sometimes you hold your nose and do what you do not believe in, but the notion that the justice system in the united states should be funded by the people who have to come to court and you set is as anti-democratic a principle that i can think of. courts have done it at of desperation, but i k

court judges invariably ruled against them they have to go to the eisenhower judges in the fifth circuit to get bassing constitution rights for african-americans in the south. the federal judges were key. >> can i continue this just on this road. when you are sitting inside the government and you're seeing that and it's your party and your president, you're in a terrible mess. and it is the point out to the president of the united states that he wasn't -- they weren't responding toer near green and his colleagues. he looked at the picture of elizabeth and that girl screams at her in rage. come on, move and do something. i would say it in words and then i decided ralph would say write it roger. you know this stuff. right. break my career. write. and then i finally said to myself what you need to do. i said to myself, what are you a man or a bunch of -- you can't ask yourself that question. if you're not ready to give the right answer. i did give the right answer. it came back from kennedy like a rocket to knack down tanks with. it was really. it was really tough. he's green. he doesn't kn

so there's nothing for the federal judges to go on. it's a horrible problem and it's costing, you know, just millions of dollars that could better be spent on a more rational immigration policy. that's not our mandate but with other priorities and focused on the administration of justice. >> sherrilyn, you teach, you give grades. what if you were grading the system on fairness and impartial? >> which system? >> the state courts, the justice system that we're seeing is potentially underfunded into to be perfectly honest with you, and i'm glad linda raised what she's raised. i think it's actually not very helpful to simply pluck out the question of kind of funding of the courts. i mean once you start discounting your justice system, you're in trouble no matter what aspect of it you're discounting. right? if you start trying to kind of mark down and penny pinch around your justice, you get what you pay for. so there's no question about that, but there is a bigger request he about the allocation of resources within the system and linda's p

five judges supported extradition, two judges opposed it. nicholas phillips, the president of the supreme court, said the decision came down to the definition of judicial authority under the terms of the european extradition treaty. >> the point of law is simply, what do the words judicial authority mean? mr. assange has argued they mean a court or judge. sweden's request has been issued by a public prosecutor who is not a court or judge, so mr. assange argument request is invalid and he does not have to go back to sweden. the point of law is simple to state, but it has not been simple to resolve. indeed, we have only reached our decision by a majority of 5-2. there was discussion in parliament about the words judicial authority when the bill which became the extradition act was being spaded. the bill use the words judicial authority because those words were in the framework decision and the act was designed to give a fit to the framework decision. it is clear some members of parliament believe the words judicial authority and a framework de

, the judge is being creative. it could be that the judge sees the potential of this particular defendant and says, you know, if he did a little school work, it might help him get a job. >> reporter: it could be the judge's way of steering mobley away from scenes like this in richmond. the judge did mobley time to appeal the decision. that appeal was filed here. that moves here to the ninth court of appeal. >>> heroin ring dismantled in the bay area. after a 2 1/2-year operation, officers arrested a dozen people today. investigators describe the ring leader as a aund palo alto, ea and redwood city. several search warrants were served today. the officers seized guns, drugs and cash. the suspects are gang members and imported the heroin from mexico. >>> a bloody mess. that's how investigators collecting bags of evidence from a castro valley house described the murder scene inside. sheriff's deputies made the gruesome discovery last night, finding a dead body, during a probation search of mega avenue. maybes said the