if we have police officers committing perjury, we will review these cases. we have a number of cases that have been presented, and we're trying to assess the actual occurrence on the basis. the only way the system can work well as if we all play by the rules. >> i agree. >> i want to get the other panelists into the conversation. >> in my particular case, each one of us was put on death row. and right now, you have 135 people have been exonerated from death row. what would be the charge? at of the 138 who were prosecuted, 45 or 40-45 of them was for prosecution misconduct. i am just wondering, since he said that he would prosecute, he would prosecute on what level? >> i do not know the facts behind those cases. >> this is a person who was innocent, but they withheld the evidence to prosecute him on death row. well with the deficit -- will they be charged with? >> we would look for a level of intent and knowledge of the prosecutor had at the time and

it was called "an act for the prevention of frauds and perjuries."required that certain classes of contracts had to be in writing to be enforceable. today, every state in the united states has what's called a statute of frauds, modeled after the original english statute. >> it's a statute that specifies that some contracts have to be in writing before the court will enforce them. and one area that the courts are very concerned with is a contract in which one person agrees to pay a debt for another person. and the court feels that those contracts do need to be written because the person who's made this promise is getting nothing out of it. >> another category that falls within the statute of frauds requiring a writing is the contract for the sale of real property or where there is an interest in land involved. 'cause real property would be land or anything permanently affixed thereto. another e that's involv with thawould be- another category, that is, of contracts falling within the statute of frauds, is the one where it cannot be performed within on

if they commit perjury, they have to go. we have to teach young officers and older officers, you cannot do this. you should never have started. breaking the rules because you think you have to do it to get a bad guy, breaking the rules because you do not trust defense lawyers because we are going to let these scumbags off. i trust the attempts to be done bechief suhr, but it is a long- range process. i am not an apologist for greg suhr or the district attorney, but they have to find a solution. without the state, law enforcement does not work. [applause] >> so, chief suhr -- [laughter] what do you do about this problem of the end justifying the means? so, how you teach your young officers or train them not to abuse their power and not to get these bad guys anyway they can and does not matter how they operate? how do you teach trainees about this? >> first, thank you for having me. this is a bit of an away game for me. [laughter] [applause] >> either way, it is your home town. >> that is true. >> you might feel like you're on

if you are presented with evidence that the police officers have committed perjury, or if you have this attorney in your office who has hidden evidence in the pursuit of a conviction, will you take action against this? >> we are aware that we're looking at many cases -- with the first homicide -- homicide conviction for this case that was over 20 years old at the office was working on for over one year. and we have the prosecutorial problems in this case. it appears that this was possibly prompted by the police. we believe that this evidence was material, and we decided to read prosecute the case. we have an integrity and it today, and we're looking at a series of cases and convictions.

if you are presented with evidence that the police officers have committed perjury, or if you have this attorney in your office

want to remark that you need to take a polygraph on what they're saying, because there's too much perjury right.. >>(narrator) michelle chovaun recalled an incident with aileen's grandfather. >>i don't know how much you want me to say. he was a bastard. >>(attorney) do you recall an incident when you and aileen skipped school? >>yes. >>what happened when--did you go to aileen's house with her? >>um, i walked home with her and we had gotten caught. and, i remember looking through the front, they had a screen door view, and the minute she walked in, he had her over a chair. and, um, i stood there and watched him, and he beat the hell out of her with a black belt that was around his waist. he took it off, and told her to lean over the chair, and walloped on her for a good five minutes. >>was this what you would call a spanking? >>oh, no. no, it was like--it left me hypnotized. >>did he know you were watching? >>yeah, he did. he was aware i was watching. >>is that just an example as to-- >>that's an example. yes. >>(narrator) it had been a long week. all the witnesses stuck together in this m

corporation at all, you have to test certain things through bylaws and your signed under penalty of perjury that that is the case or you can be subject to all sorts of penalties and investigations by state authorities. that is all they have to do, and you don't have to do very much, as i think we all know. i think every single one of you have run companies, as long as you have corporate filings. you stand as a standard corporate entity. commissioner dwight: what is the time frame? for example, my company would have to turn -- change the state of incorporation, and in that step, we would create ourselves as a b-corp in california? >> yes. commissioner dwight: that would be the process. it would take time. we don't presently bid on any city contracts, but if a company is presently engaged, you're competing against [unintelligible] >> under the legislation, we go through a normal legislative process. it was going to affect 30-45 days after that. that is something that is also under discussion. it will get into affect on feedback and would be -- the states are looking at this. if there are conc

everything from a disregard for the fourth amendment, theft, perjury, and the stories -- when you hear them over and over -- there becomes a real ring of truth to them, a consistency that makes it impossible for us, as attorneys, hearing the stories to dismiss them out of hand. the videos are not the first time that misconduct has ever happened. they are just the first time for us. let me use the henry hotel incident as a case study. let's go out and amassed a bunch of videos. which is basically did our job to clients. the residents of the hotel told us what the police officer said was not what happens. we trusted them. we looked at the henry hotel. we got video from december 23. and lo and behold, every word of what our clients were telling us were true. two four two. the videos are just a small sample of what some would say is clearly a culture or pattern. and i do want to say that even in my short tenure as defense attorney, i agree with stuart. there are so many good officers, but there are cultures that develop within certain units. i will put it right out there. many of the compl

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now than he did four years ago, that's going to be a perjury charge. i could not allow his memory, either changing or diminishing over that four years, so i said >>> this morning on "early today," silence is golden. a silent movie makes a lot of noise last night at the academy awards. >>> $4 a gallon? the cost of filling up continues to climb toward a painful new high. >>> and driving rain. the daytona 500 is washed out for the first time in nascar history. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello, and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with "the artist," a black-and-white nostalgic nod to old hollywood stole the show at last night's oscars. nbc's jinah kim joins us from hollywood with all the red carpet glitz and glam and the details on who took home the coveted gold. jinah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. you know, george clooney joked during our interview with him on the red carpet that now he's going to be doing silent pictures. and after this, that may not be far from the truth. with no color and almost

who knows, holder will probably evade a perjury rap because it's kind of foggy and vague. look, i have to say the most poignant thing about this thing i've read aside from mrs. terry's commentary, michael hayden, a former cia director under president bush who said if only holder showed the same leniency to the ceo against who he's been prosecuting over water boarding. and holder holds himself, i can't remember, too bad for me and everybody else gets the hammer. >> and totally ignoring the other side of the story which the media is not covering, which is that holder was to the-- and secondly he may have been aware of fast and furious not aware of gun walking the fact that the guns were taken from the gun sellers and that's where the problem came in and holder was not aware of. >> now is seems to be clear. if holder says i didn't know about it months later and now says weeks later. >> he knew about fast and furious not the gun walking, two issues here. >> to be candid and honest with the house government committee and apparent to me that he wasn't. >> the media, the differen

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alfonso salazar faces nine felony counts ranging from burglary to perjury in what prosecutors call a sophisticated rental scam. >> they are claiming ownership entitlement they have no ownership right over and they are renting them out by posting an ad in craigslist and in the people are paying, two, three, four, up to six thousand dollars to rent the properties. >> reporter: salazar was a licensed real estate agent until last year. he worked for country wide mortgage. >> he knew how to talk the talk because he was a professional in this industry. so he knew how to say the right things to pro tension renters -- potential renters and he knew how to put the right words on the craigslist to look like a reliable ad. >> reporter: the homes are in brentwood, anitoch, hercules. he claimed the bank-owned properties were owned by national alliance of justice. prosecutors think he may have made 80 to $90,000 since october. some of the homes are rented through craigslist. but roberto leone found his home through a friend. the day he moved in he says something seemed wrong. >> the same day we mov