my legal panel is joining me, joey jackson, paul callan. tter how you feel about brittany maynard, nothing could be celebrated about this. everything just felt so sad either way. but, you know, my question is, what has changed? paul, you weigh in first. what has changed since the kevorkian days? >> we've gotten so sophisticated in terms of the machines that can prolong and keep us alive, even after the doctors have said there's no chance of survival that we see people and usually it's older people, elderly people but sometimes it's young people with cancer and other types of diseases that we know are terminal and the machines, the artificial feeding, the ventilation, all of these things prolong life in a way that causes people to suffer and i think many people now say, you know something, maybe it's not right that the machines are allowed to keep us alive when they which our time has come. >> so interesting that you chose the route to answer that question. what i expected, and maybe this is you, we've become more progressive. we understand m

way want to bring in paul callan and defense attorney joey jackson.where i started to wonder. if you have that many people who could provide witness testimony, absence the forensics, absence anything else in this case, it's witness against witness, is there any way that the statute of limitations would allow some kind of prosecution to come forward? >> we've been working on this and joey has a list of every statute in the country. but here's the overview on it. it used to be in most states 5 to 7 years for rape you have to bring the case or you lose your right to bring it. but then when all of these cases evolved involving children and abuse of children. >> and memories that were repressed. >> and dna came along and all of a sudden we realized there may be somebody sitting in prison linked to an old rape, there's one rule that remained in place and that is this. whatever the statute was when the rape occurred initially, if that had expired when the law was changed, you don't get the benefit of the long statute. >> basically what you're saying is, let'

also joining here in new york live, prosecute are to and cnn legal analyst paul callan. michael, i want to start with you. first and foremost, we can talk about all of the politicking we want. that's what paul will talk about. what you need to tell me is, what does this mean? for all those people out there thinking, finally, i can stay. or, gee, why do they get to stay? >> there are anywhere between 11 to 20 million people here without authority. we have a broken system since president reagan gave an amnesty. president bush tried to pass immigration reform and his congress wouldn't do it. we have the greatest risk takers and entrepreneurs. we're sitting not a few miles from the statue of liberty. we have a huge heritage of immigration. i came from my office a few blocks away on madison and i'm a second generation immigration lawyer and a man and a wife who has children here without status. the new normal is that this country will be regarded as we did in the early 1800s and early 1900s for the extraordinary legacy of immigrants, risk takers. and the bottom line -- >> abou

susan candiotti, cnn, new york. >> so, legal analyst paul callan and joey jackson are joining us now and we want to start off with the physical evidence in this case. joey, there's a lot of work to be done here when you look at this. we're talking about this trail of blood drops, also the location of the shell casings. what do we know about the physical evidence? what does it tell us and what does it not tell us? >> a great question. here's the point of view, when you look at the car itself, suzanne, and that's where things initially occurred, you see shell casings and there are two shell casings there. that's instructive because at least it tells us there were two rounds discharged. the thing it limits, and there's other evidence we'll get to, the thing that it limits is how they got there. we know there was the gun discharge. who was the aggressor? was it that michael brune was aggressive and striking the officer? was it that the officer was reaching out and pulling michael brown? what was the altercation all about? so the physical evidence doesn't lie but it's certainly subject to

to you, paul callan. which do they address first? are these addressed at the same time and which comes with more severe penalties if he is indeed found guilty? >> i suspect the federal case might be the one that will take precedence. federal authorities have the machinery to investigate and put together the case. >> crossing state lines here. >> yes, federal law applies. anywhere from 20 years to life, could you even get the death penalty in certain federal kidnapping cases and the fbi putting the case together and circling back to your question, what would be the defense in the case since the evidence looks so strong with the video i'm looking at it saying an insanity defense is probably the only way this guy will go. he probably suffers from severe mental illness of some sort and i can't see how he's going to beat the charge otherwise given the videotape. >> we'll see what happens, still waiting to find out who his defense attorney is and what they have to say. paul callan, jean casarez, great reporting out there and just what an e

cnn legal analyst paul callan and stephanie elam joins us from ferguson.i want to begin with you. key element over the weekend including the demonstration we saw. give us a sense of what the mood is like on the ground in te ferguson now. >> make kael larks everyone is waiting to hear what will happen. for people who may not know either party involved, mike brown or officer wilson, the concern is not so much on whether or not he's indicted but 2 response that comes after it, whether or not there will be the violence that we saw in august in those first few days after mike brown was killed where we saw buildings looted, businesses looted. a lot of those buildings are boarding up and just writing in fluorescent letters that they're hope but they want to be prepared in case this ruling comes down and it's not what people think. and there's a lot of people here that don't believe that officer wilson will be indicted. >> you've obviously been talking to a lot of people and families, they're concerned about their children. what is the primary thing they're saying

joining me paul callan, and patricia bynes and chuck drago, a former police chief in florida who trains police officers in the use of force. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> thank you for being with me. patricia, i want to start with you. i'm sure much of ferguson was glued to wilson's account. michael brown's parents, however, well, officer wilson's interview very much upset them. listen to what they told cbs this morning. >> he didn't do what he had to do. he did what he wanted to do. >> what he wanted to do? >> yes. >> you're thinking he wanted to kill your son? >> i don't think he wanted to kill my son but he wanted to kill some one. >> at the end of his statement he said he'd do it again. >> his conscience is clear. how could your conscience be clear are killing somebody even if it was an accidental death. >> and to allow the body to lie there for four hours. >> we can't even have my son's organs donated. you understand that? >> keep in mind this is the first time officer wilson fired his weapon, so we do have to take that into account, but i wanted

chris king, paul callan, thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> we heard from officer wilson for the first analyzing it from a legal perspective. does he sound credible? what about his story actually got the grand jury to exonerate him? our legal experts will break it down. creeping up on you... fight back with relief so smooth... ...it's fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum... smoothies! only from tums. i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 30 of the web's leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot easier. [ female announcer ] over 100,000 businesses have already used zip recruiter and now you can use zip recruiter for free at a special site for tv viewers; go to ziprecruiter.com/offer5. >>> all right, here we go with t

. >> thank you for that report. >> joining us now, let's talk about this with cnn legal analyst paul callan cevallos. paul, first of all, the university of virginia suspending all fraternities until january 9th and asking charlottesville police to investigate the incident. this was an incident from 2012. too little, too late? >> well, it's not too late. the statute of limitations would still be open if it was 2012 for a potential criminal case. but, yes, it is too late in the sense you want to have these cases prosecuted and investigated very, very quickly. and frankly, this is stunning and shocking. i mean, seven men gang raping a woman on a college campus? i've got to hear more why the police weren't involved sooner, what they did if they were involved. it's a shocking, shocking allegation. >> right. it's stomach turning. and danny, she told the school's sexual misconduct board, as i have read. if that is the case, does the board not have a responsibility, then, to get law enforcement involved? >> it's interesting because on college campuses, these investigative bodies operate as sort of

. >> reporter: i want to bring in paul callan, cnn legal analyst and crimmal defense attorney as well former prosecutor. lot to talk about here in this case with you. the suspect, chase merritt, he has a couple of felony conviction, nothing violent, though. how much will his previous record play in terms of the evidence brought against him? >> well, i think it plays heavily in terms of looking at somebody who could engage, if he's guilty, in an act of this level of violence, two children having been killed, the police i know believe it was a blunt force instrument that may have been used in the killings. that wouldn't suggest somebody who just did this for the first time in adulthood. you would think pathologically and psychologically there would be a history of violence. >> what about the fact as we mentioned in the story that patrick mcstay thinks that his son was about to cut chase merritt, the suspect, out of the business. he had this huge $9 million deal for waterfalls, chase merritt was one of his welders and thinks maybe his son was looking for another welder. how much of their

i want to bring in my legal team, sunny hostin, paul callan and mel robbins. how could this happen? you're a former federal prosecutor. have at her? >> i'm shocked. i've been reading the report. i haven't seen something like this p especially coming out of the special victims unit because they're called special victims for a reason, because they have heightened vulnerability. talking about the elderly, women, children. when ewe look at the fact that they had a report of a juvenile living with a registered sex offender -- >> let me read that. since you mentioned it, you won't believe -- i'm going to read straight from the report. this will just -- a juvenile was brought to the hospital emergency room due to an alleged sexual assault. a review of the hospital records revealed that a forensic interview was conducted by a specialist trained to elicit information from children regarding sexual/physical abuse. the forensic interview report noted specific information regarding sexual and physical abuse by a named individual who was living in the same house with the juvenile, this report al

i want to bring back my team, danny cevallos, paul callan and jeffrey toobin. >> you know why?that ac/dc is not an hair band. did you see the clip? >> '80s bands are hair panbands. not kiss but poison. >> metalica is also a hair band. >> does anyone want to talk -- >> i'm going to totally back you up. they are not a hair band. >> thank you. >> that's poison, white snake. that's pretty much 1987. jeff, i was seated in front of the tv watching when they played videos. now, joey strikes me more of a barry manilow and air supply guy. >> got to love it. >> that's pathetic. >> i'm going to ring you back into the law here. >> which is hard to do. >> i'm such a huge ac/dc fan. >> who knows anything about new zealand law? i don't know anything about their law. but can we play more video? >> we can maybe play the music under. can we ask for a little sound? they are so much more interesting than us. right? they really are. i'm glad it wasn't angus. i'm just glad it wasn't angus. >> there's a legal reality to any prosecution, ashleigh. before you go forward with any pr prosecution has a cr

the next hour we're going to do the same with the help of our two legal analysts joey jackson and paul callan through the evidence ever since it was

why break with tradition says writer and pub regular paul callan. >> i think it's an appalling idea. i can think of nothing more horrendous. >> reporter: problem is pubs are in trouble with a dozen closing every week. big chains price out family-run pubs and more people drink at home. >> trying to keep their head in the game, isn't it? trying new technology, new ideas. >> reporter: to bring in a new generation. if self-service can save their local, well, who wouldn't toast to that? kelly cobiella, nbc news, swansea, wales. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm carl quintanilla reporting. i'll see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> right now on nbc bay area news, reaction to the resignation of the police officer who shot and killed michael brown in ferguson, missouri. plus, a 6-year-old boy being credited for saving his friend's life. and how black friday is not taking over just thanksgiving, but cyber monday as well. first, let's get to the weather. good evening. a south bay finally got a heavy dose of rain today. let's take a look at what it looked

. >> let's yin in hln legal only joey jackson, and cnn legal only little paul callan. e of the police audiotapes, the surveillance tapes of wilson impact the grand jury deliberations that are going on? >> well, i think these tapes are going to be a very important piece of evidence. the thing that i would focus on primarily, i haven't had a chance to look at the video of officer wilson in the hospital which i assume is post-incident. but it's the radio calls that now tell us what was really going on in sort a time sequence. and according to the tapes, it suggests that officer wilson had stopped the two young men, johnson and brown, because they were walking down the middle of the street. he tells them to get on the sidewalk. he doesn't realize that they have, or at least one of them have been identified as possibly involved in what's calling the stealing incident. because he had been out of a cruiser on another call when the dispatch first goes out. while he's in his suv pulling away from the two, who he probably can see in the rear view mirror of his suv, the police cru

we bring in paul callan and jeffrey toobin. great to have you back with us.m darren wilson is more than an irnlg thick here inch thick we've been poring through. sunny hostin said he almost uses cartoonish imagery to talk about the first altercation at the car with michael brown. let me read you from his testimony. he says first, "when i grabbed him" when they started to get into a physical fight "the only way i can describe it i felt like a 5-year-old holding onto hulk hogan, that's how big he felt and how small i felt from grasping his arm." he goes on to say "the only way i can describe it looked like a demon, that's how angry he looked. he comes back towards me again with his hands up." jeffrey, this gives us a real window into the mind-set of darren wilson while all this was happening. >> it does. but it is worth remembering that initial scene in the car he's talking about, the gun went off twice. that's very serious business. >> darren wilson shot his gun twice in dns. >> you can understand why that he felt like he needed to use vivid language. i still

i want do bring in criminal defense attorney mid win chiles and cnn legal analyst paul callan, a criminalse attorney and former prosecutor. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. >> paul, has this been the most thorough grand jury in history? >> it's right up there. it's an unusually thorough grand jury because most cases that get put into the grand jury, it's wham, bam, a couple of witnesses, and then the grand jury votes to indict or no true bill. however, in controversial cases and particularly in cases involving police officer shootings and killings, there are more extensive presentations. so this is not without precedent. there have been big presentations like this in other places. >> what was unusual to me, mid win is now the private doctor is going to go in and testify before the grand jury about autopsy results and he didn't even have michael brown's clothing to examine. what of value will he give to the grand jury. >> yes, dr. baden, an excellent doctor. it's interesting. i think one of the problems i see is the manner in which the grand jury has proceeded thus far is the tacti

. >> i'm joined by paul callan. you know, you hear ben krump and others saying it's too close to law enforcement. the system was basically rigged against an indictment. one of the things they're pointing to in the testimony of darren wilson is that he wasn't cross-examined, wasn't challenged vigorously. ben krump said a first year law student could have questioned him based on his testimony. you've been going over the thousands of pages of documents. what do you make from his testimony? what stands out to you? >> well, i think it's right that darren wilson was not cross-examined. he was not being cross -- tchsn't a jury trial. he was prepared. knew how to set the tone early on, he was coming in as the victim in this case. he was very clear about the size differences early on. he was clear about his mindset at the time. so he had good lawyers who prepared him to go in there and make sure that he was going to have, you know, set this tone and anything that happened after it. because we know his setting the tone meant

. >>> bringing in our legal analyst paul callan. thanks for being with us.ay in missouri right now. this independent pathologist, dr. michael baden who examined michael brown's body, he is testifying before this grand jury. they've already heard testimony and seen information about the official autopsy. how unusual is it to get this second alternative version of events? >> it's very unusual in the sense that in most cases you don't have a family hiring a doctor different from the coroner, the county coroner who usually would do an autopsy. so probably 99.5% of cases there is no second doctor to call. then you have this issue, is it appropriate for the prosecutor to call the family's doctor. he will be the witness for the family if they bring a civil case later on. so that's sort of a close call as to whether it's appropriate or not. i suppose the police officer could say do i get the right to have my own doctor then testify? however, i will tell you from speaking the a lot of prosecutors who have handled these cases, and i've been a prosecutor myself, in a h

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wath to turn to our cnn legal analyst paul callan and attorney and radio host mo ivory.y a little sound from this coalition group from the co-chair, michael mcpherson. listen to what he had to say. >> what we're trying to do is make sure that we move everything into a constructive way to create change. we want to deescalate violence where we do not want to deescalate action. >> paul, right off the bat, what's your reaction? >> well i think it's a very good idea and it's been done in mass demonstrations in the past. marches on washington, d.c., for civil rights. protesting the vietnam war. there's always been coordination between law enforcement authorities and demonstrators. we could have a debate about whether they're asking for too much here. >> we might need to dig into that a little bit. this is a 19 points that they're going after the police on, including some really strange ones that i don't think will be granted. i mean they want to regulate how the police dress. they want to regulate, they want to say if somebody throw as bottle at a police officer, the police of

we brought in paul callan, legal analyst for us. you have it covered for us.bout this notion about where it leaves us on the stayed level. for example, the federal government has been hands off with both washington state and colorado. do people that possess it, and grow it, where it is legal in their state, do they risk being arrested for a federal law there? >> they're breaking one or more federal laws but the risk of being arrested is minimal. the obama administration made noises they were going to enforce federal laws and then they slowly started to back away from that. so there's really been no federal law enforcement of these marijuana statutes in states where you have had legalization. >> another issue that i find fascinating is this notion of banking. so you have the companies makes all the money and they want do their banking but banks are says, look, we have to watch ourselves. we don't want to find ourselves in trouble with the feds. how do they manage that and is there a way to get around it or work with it? >> well, this is a complex problem becaus

let's discuss this cnn legal analyst paul callan and attorney and radio host mo ivory.you, grand juries are supposed to be secretive. but this is also the better way to have conducted this phase of the investigation. right? because the alternative was to just leave it up to the prosecutor. here you have a representative body of the community hearing all the evidence and making a decision on whether or not to indict and go to trial. isn't that good? >> well, sure. i mean if the grand jury process is what someone has chosen. it could have been bet fer the prosecutors decided to do the investigation on his own. which of course he could have. and could have decided to charge darren wilson or not, so the transparency argument started way back when, in august. it's not just a transparency argument that started now. yes, a grand jury is a secret proceeding. things don't have to be brought to the public. but as we know, things have been leaking, you know throughout the entire process. >> i'm saying, mo, the presence that fewer going to have just me do the investigation, i get w

so with us, cnn legal analyst paul callan and danny cevallos., gentlemen. >> good morning. >> first of all, i wonder if you can help us understand the makeup of this jury and how that could impact what we expect to hear. we do have the numbers there being a racial split, men and women on this jury. do you expect that men and women, seven men, five women, that that could have very impact on the perspective looking at what we know, they, of course, know more, but what we know about what happened on august 9th? let's start with paul. >> well, you know, i think when lawyers look at how women as opposed to men react to these situations, i know when i picked juries in murder cases, and there's a child involved, this is not a child, he's a young man, he's 18 years old, the victim, the question is, you know, will a woman be more sympathetic because she's a mother? there's a little bit of that thought that goes into it. but i don't see the gender split as being significant here. i'd be more concerned about the racial split which i'm sure we'll talk about

alexander van tulleken and paul callan. let's start with the medical. how bad is this for you?y the way. this is 25 grams, this is what they're saying equates to personal use so if you get arrested with this on you, you won't get arrested, you get a ticket or summons. . >> the question of how bad, distinguish between how wad it is for users and empbts and within users physical harm, social harm and psychological harm. we need a lot more data on ka in a cannabis. it's less harmful than alcohol and less than tobacco as well. >> hold on, talking about the legal ramifications about this, the new study shows it does affect users brains even more so than we may have known. let me show you your brain on drugs if i may, doctor. the lower line here is a pot smoker's brain and the top one is a non-user's brain. what do you see the difference? show us what we're looking at. >> what you're looking at is a region of the brain the ok sipical frontal cortex which governs behavior, addiction, reward seeking behaviors. in the study the pot smoker's behavior, the frontal cortex is smaller but th

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