cnn legal analyst paul callan back with me. inal defense attorney terry knight joining us for the first time. welcome. >> thank you. >> paul, let me start with you. the first thing many people want to think is, lord, how is it that we can't have any law that applies to a child. but maybe more importantly, the parents. perhaps there are parents who put this child in the care of an 87-year-old woman who had a gun on the house. is there any exposure on their part if there are parents at all at this point? >> i think theoretically the parents could be charged with some child endangerment charge. only if they knew the 87-year-old caregiver had a gun that was unsecured and avisible to their child -- available to their child. there are things we don't know about what the parents knew. the gun belonged to the caregiver, the 87-year-old. did the parents know she had a gun, a loaded gun? was it easily accessible to the child? putting the child in harm's way with that caregiver could theoretically create liability. it's a real tough case.

joining me now, paul callan.could have the conversation about should they be charged an an adult. what i really want to ask you is there are murders and there are murders and when you have a victim as beloved a this man, 89 years old job u you heard that man . >> it justs makes me so angry. >> sometimes mistakes are made. jo want to jump to a conclusion too clickly. we're doing that only because there have been such horrible killings lately. >> we ear going to move on to the oklahoma case. what is going on. it seems like we're repeating ourselves. three of these teenagers accused of killing the australia baseball player. everybody said i.d. was just for fun but now guess what. there may be a little more to the story. there may be a whole other motive and it may not be as random as we first thought. hear the details next. [ shapiro ] at legalzoom, you can take care of virtually all your important legal matters in just minutes. protect your family... and launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your s

paul callan, danny sovalos.ed conversation about first amendment rights, making the sign and saying those ugly words. and then, of course, discrimination. and civil rights. so danny, where do those two things come together oh are clash, or do they? >> first, after 1964, if you have a company, you hang out your shingle and you discriminate against someone based on their race or religion or any of the protected classes, you're violating civil rights act. the civil rights statute. however, going back to free speech, the question becomes, is the content of this speech such that it is not protected by the first amendment? first, consider how different the statement is, if the word instead of muslim is mosque. fascinating, right? >> how does that change anything? >> it changes it completely. >> so no muslims here -- >> no, no, the statement was "no muslim parking." if you change that to "no mosque parking" you're talking about a place of business people are going to, namely the mosque. and then it becomes proper. howe

i want to bring in our legal analyst paul callan.stic, let's talk about this case, the girl raped, the man was convicted of the rape. it isn't an alleged condition, he was convicted of it, and the judge said you have to pay child support $110 a week, if i'm going to pay child support, i'll demand my parental rights. to many it feels like a second violation of this woman. >> i think you are absolutely right. it's a brutal psychological violation of the woman. think about this, she's got to confront her rapist every time he comes to pick up the child on a visitation situation and it's worse than that, because family court judges don't like one parent bad-mouthing the other so what is she supposed to do, say nice things about the rapist to her own child? >> who raped her when she was essentially a child, a 14-year-old girl. >> he was 20, she was 14 when this happened, so it was a statutory rape, but that age disparity is so great, that's a little girl, she couldn't have consented to that. >> at that age that's an incredibly huge age gap

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"outfront" tonight our legal analyst paul callan. here we go self-defense again here in florida. lawyers say there's visible bruising on him. part of the confession he wrote my wife is punching me and i'm not going to stand anymore the abuse so i did what i did. i hope you understand me. bruises, is that self-defense for shooting someone? >> well, this is the battered husband defense. we usually hear it in terms of battered wives and there's some believability that attaches because the guy's usually a lot bigger and can hurt the woman. the fact pattern here, this guy says the wife punched him. he wouldn't take it anymore. he went upstairs, got his gun and he came back down stairs and then she grabbed a knife to defend herself, then he shot her but, you know, so the self-defense thing goes right out the window, you know, on that. >> let me ask you. there's a picture of the family at dinner hours before the murder. they're all smiling, sitting there together. but according to our affiliate wfor in the police report they do say the couple got into a heated argument where alfonso thr

a lawyer said his client had no intent to assist tsarnaev, but paul callan said the kazakh nationalsill not be viewed as local college kids that deserve a break. >>> well, 12-year-old boy in florida has contracted a deadly brain-eating amoeba, his family tells cnn affiliate wbbh that he became ill after knee boarding with friends in a water-filled ditch. this is a second case of a brain-eating amoeba in less than a month. he's found in freshwater lakes or hot springs usually in the south but the cdc said more cases are popping up as far north as minnesota. it enters through the body through the nose and travels into your brain. while contracting it is rare, surviving it is even rarer. here are the statistics. of 128 cases over the past 50 years only two have survived. the cdc recommends wearing knows clips when swimming in the still water. >>> a huge move for apple today and it all came from a tweet. carl icahn tweeted, we currently have a large position in apple. we believe the company to be extremely undervalued. spoke to tim cook today, more to come. assuming loaded up and loaded

joining us to talk about this peter shankman and paul callan, cnn legal analyst. . paul, i want to start with you. both parties agreed to throw this lawsuit out. no money awarded anywhere and now the two are friends. that just seems odd. >> it does seem odd. it is odd that the suit was filed in the first place since there was no legal basis for it. she's not an african-american and claiming she was offended y discrimination. but that on the side, once it was filed. this settlement agreement. i was looking at it carefully, carol. it says no payments of costs or fees. now, it didn't say anything about other money that might be paid on the side. costs and fees mean to lawyers the cost of transcripts and court appearances and filing fees and no attorneys' fees. but did the plaintiff get money and there's a secrecy agreement. i don't know. but it makes me wonder. >> so, paula deen might have paid her off to make the lawsuit go away? >> well, it's been known to happen in civil litigation. you can negotiate a side deal and you can seal it and have a confidentiality order.

paul callan,cnn legal analyst, thank you for that. >>> now we're going to move on to another breaking story, this one out of california where a state of emergency has been declared as a massive wildfire invades one of the country's premiere national parks. this is the so-called rim fire which has now spread into yosemite. it blew up overnight to cover a mind-boggling 100,000 acres. let's go right to nick james of sacramento affiliate kovr. so nick, any mandatory evacuations under way in the park? >> reporter: well, breanna, we haven't heard of anything involving yosemite at this point. there are some homes to the west of the fire that have been evacuated at this point, about 300 homes, 2500 more homes under an evacuation advisory. but to that number is expected to grow here as flames continue to spread. behind us you can see some of the aftermath of the rim fire, but of course quite unfortunately the flames are still spreading at this hour for the second straight night. it really blew up in the overnight hours, as you said over 100,000 aches now, containment just at 2% as the fire is