you have a guilty plea. the man is going to spend his life in prison. and the victims are spared the horror of reliveing this. you never know what can happen at a trial. he could be found not guilty by reason of insanity which would not be a victory for the government. this is why 96 percent of all cases are resolved by a plea. it is the right result. thank god, justice will be done. >>shepard: the judge said and i am reading from transcripts, the court followed instructions of the supreme court of the united states on this and it is a two-part test. the finding does not mean he is not mentally ill but the judge ruled he is competent to stand trial. the judge said it is important that he knows rationale and understands his possible defenses. back in january of this year he said that the man reported that he didn't think loughner was koch tenth but he was improving. now, the judge has ruled that loughner is competent enough to stand trial under the supreme court test. he killed six people and now he will plead guilty and go away forever and save the worl

if not, if he is not competent then the plea deal becomes moot, doesn't it? >> plea deal is off. if he's found not competent, he goes back to the hospital and remains under treatment until some day in the future he becomes competent again and is brought back to court. this goes on with mentally ill defendants frequently in the criminal justice system. sometimes they are in mental hospitals for the rest of their life or a couple of years and they come back to court. we have to see. >> is there a standard length of time that he was deemed incompetent to stand trial? is there a time he would be locked up before they would make that determination again about going to trial? >> because he has criminal charges, he can remain locked up indefinitely as long as he's found not competent to stand trial. at some point if prosecutors decide to drop the charges, he then is just treated as a normal mental patient a could be harmful to himself or others remain in a facility but psychiatrist could decide to release him. that's why prosecutors will want to leave the charges hanging for a number of

>> well, the plea bargain process and the plea that is given has the judge interacting with the defendant and with his lawyers. what i understand happened today, is that the judge heard from an expert who said i know jared lee loughner i know how this medication is working on him and i see him in the courtroom today. and he is competent. he understands what is going on. and after the expert said that, the judge, himself, took the guilty plea which means that jared lee loughner had to acknowledge what he was pleading to, what rghts he sgiving up anthe judge could see with his own eyes and the demeanor in fact this is a person who was competent. >> and we also noted that the congress woman and her husband and other victims were accepting of this. they said so before it was formalized. does that play any role, do you think, for the judge in his decision? >> i think that is huge. you know, the judge did not have to accept this plea bargain. and i think the judge had on his mind how will the victims react? when youhad a cgress woman ffords a the other family members there saying we agree with

whenter a plea of guilty. doing this he avoids the federal death penalty and will receive life in prison. this is why the government would make a move like this. >> so often what you find is people say, well how many years will it be while they sit on death row, three meals a die, tax dollars involved? and then, sitting around waiting. is there a possibility this case could be reversed for some reason, technical reason, legal reason because of the insanity defense? was it used correctly? or the jury instructions correct? was there an error made by the judge? all of those things are gone. >> reporter: now a lot of this does depend on loughner's behavior today, gregg. he could act out or even change his mind today. gregg. gregg: you know normally prosecutors will go to the survivors and the family members of those who lost their lives and consult with them, get their opinions on whether they would be willing to go along with a plea deal. what do we know happened here? >> reporter: well we do know that some are s

jared loughner entered a guilty plea for the january 11th shooting spree. six people were killed and 13 injured, including former congresswoman gabrielle giffords. a federal judge ruled that loughner was competent to stand trial allowing him to enter the guilty plea calling the pain and loss incal cuable. cuable. another victim agreed. >> i came within a couple inches of losing my life at the safeway, and that kind of experience stays with you. >> reporter: today loughner's attorneys had to persuade the federal judge to allow loughner to enter a guilty plea. a doctor said he showed signs of depression. he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and he had been forcibly medicating him for more than a year. loughner said he was remorseful for his actions, especially what he did to 9-year-old christina greene. loughner will serve a life prison in sentence. karen travers, abc2 news washington. >>> a former university of maryland student charged with making threats on campus submitted a guilty plea on charges of disturbing the peace and pg county county prosecutors sai

bargaining, of him during the plea bargaining. have you ever heard of a district attorney anywhere in the world question the sincerity of the defendant who chooses to make a plea bargain? i think that's the most revealing misstep in this whole history of denying him the due process based on the voters' choice and the due process he is guaranteed under the law in your procedures. thank you.t( >> good afternoon, commissionsers. my name is jose morales. i'm a member of many organizations in the city, especially action network, san francisco union and of course this is not justice what is happening to ross. we stand for ross, you know, who i'm standing and i believe that he has been abused just for something that you call it domestic violence, but domestic violence, it was just an altercation, squeezing the arm of his wife in the heat of the argument and caused a little bruise. about why should that be considered domestic violence and battery when you believe that someone has been battered, you hit her with a bat. i would like you to

for both sides when you talk about a guilty plea there are risks. >> what are the risks?>> the prosecution can go to trial and what can happen? this person can be found by reason of insanity. you saw at that happen in the reagan years. >> loughner had to take forcibly medication. he has been diagnosed as schizophrenic. is he competent to make the guilty plea? >> today's koicourt appearance l make that determination. we will find he will be competent and here's why. the prosecution and defense are saying he is dpint. they rely on the professionals. the last year and a half he has been forced to get meditation. he has been improving to the point where he understands the nature of the proceeding. we will see after hearing hetes. >> the judge may not agree here. >>> there is reason to believe the judge may. you have both parties on the page and you have the professional who has been treating him. not only one it's a number of sipsychiatrists who have been evaluating him. one has been anticipated at least once and testified after the fact he has been taken the psych tropic pil

so does this mean you're saying he's offering the plea. is this an automatic acceptance of that plea then? >> alex, by no means is this a done deal. under federal court rules the judge must be satisfied that a guilty plea is, quote, knowing and voluntary. now, that's going to require the judge to ask loughner a series of questions in open court to make certain he has the capacity to understand what a guilty plea means. including the fact that he gives up all of his appeal rights. >> okay. so, diana, how long does he serve if a plea, saying you're guilty, is accepted? >> a federal officials says any agreement to accept the plea would require loughner to serve a sentence of life in prison. now, instead if loughner would to stand trial he could face the death penalty if convicted. now if the judge accepts the guilty plea then the sentence would be determined later after another hearing. >> so, are they actively working on a plea agreement? do we know any details about that? and if so, do we know what those details are? >> you know at this poi

anand is his guilty plea voluntarily?swer to those questions is yes hopefully that will be the last we see of jerod laughner. >> if he was so kraeuszed and delusional and not competent to stand trial why not plead him not guilty by roefp reason of insanity. >> it works about in 1% of the cases. it would keep the death penalty on the table which is exactly what the defense lawyers don't want to answer. gregg: brian, by putting him on his meds forcibly does it deprive the jury of seeing him in the same, crazed delusional state that he was in at the time of the crime. in other words, did the intended affects of the psychotropic drugs infringe on his fair trial rights? >> well, that is an interesting point, gregg and it would be relevant i think if he were going to go to trial. i think that we can't really be sure how much of his competency, assuming he's competent this morning is really due to the meds and how much of it is just that he's had a year or two to see what his future looked like as somebody who is saying they are

. >>> the man behind a shooting rampage in arizona strikes a plea deal. jared loughner pled guilty to an attack that left six people dead and 13 others injured including gabrielle giffords. he will spend the rest of his life in prison. >> reporter: he was rushed back to the courthouse behind the tinted windows of this suv. inside the courtroom, he had nowhere to hide. his competency and change of plea proceeding began with testimony from a prison psychologist who described loughner as a psychopath. but who now after more than a year of treatment has quote, become human, crying for the victims of the killing spree especially the 9-year-old. evidence, she conclude that loughner was capable of understanding what he is accused of and competent to stand trial. >> the judge agreed and moved forward with a hearing to consider a plea agreement. prosecutors waving the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea and life in prison without possibility of parole. the judge describes the day that six were killed and 13 injured and referred to all the victims by name.

. >> a guilty plea from the university maryland student making on-line threat last march. he pleaded guilty to some of the charges against him. under the plea deal, he will perform 200 hours of community service and continue reporting to mental health corp. to monitor its care. in addition, the state is recommending three years of supervised probation under the mental health court during that time. a hearing has not been set yet for sentencing. the gun man -- the music label that had produced a gun and in wisconsin over the weekend has since removed all of its music. they released a statement that said "please do not think we are all like that." he described himself of -- as a member of a skinhead group. >> police are investigating the first homicide of the year in jerryell. it happened just after 11:30 p.m. last night along the 2700 block of giles wrote. that is the same block that another deadly shooting happened it late last year. in his five days, two men were approached by unknown -- and unknown vehicle and were shot. one man died from his injuries. please do not have

. >>> jared loughner is due in court for a exepsy and change of plea hearings. he is expected to plead guilty to the 2011 mass shooting in arizona. -- jared loughner is due in court for a competency and change of plea hearing. >>> firefighters have contained a mass i-5 fire at a chevron oil refinery in california but they are still working to extinguish all of the flames. official are telling residents to stay indoors because the black smoke spewing from the plant may be toxic. >>> on august 6, 1945, an american b-29 bomb every called enola gay dropped an atomic bomb on the japanese see of hiroshima. it willed 140,000 people. >> president harry truman ordered that bombing. japan held a memorial marking that event yesterday. and president truman's grandson spoke at the care moan y. he ca >> reporter: a single bell tolled representing the exact time an atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima 67 years ago. about 50,000 people gathered in hiroshima's peace park to pay tribute. peace birds released into the sky as mourners observed a moment of silence. it marks the epic

number two, in the end, ross mirkarimi made a plea bargain. so he pleaded guilty to perhaps something lesser. i don't know if it would be a lesser or greater in terms of false imprisonment. there is a lot of discussion and perhaps by pleading to this he avoided a much more serious issue. we did not hear what those discussions were between all the attorneys in coming up with that plea deal. those things are an indictment of what occurred. none of us were there and we don't know what took place. lpsomething serious did take ple in the share of ultimately pleaded guilty -- the share oerf pleaded guilty. >> next, we discuss abuse of office to take away custody of his child from the slope was spirited -- miss lopez. there was evidence about use of the term "powerful" in terms of what the sheriff said to miss lopez. my preliminary view is that there is not enough to sustain a charge of officialÑilp miscondut based on this allegation. i do not think the mayor has proven beyond -- that there was a threat to use the power of his office to take away his

whenter a plea of guilty.e federal death penalty and will receive life in prison. this is why the government would make a move like this. >> so often what you find is people say, well how many years will it be while they si

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the change in pleas would result in a life sentence but would avoid the death penalty.ccused of going a shooting rampage last year in arizona. >>> a just of maryland student who threatened to go on a killing spree has reportedly worked out a me dale. prosecutors say alexander song is expected to plead guilty. -- has reportedly worked out a plea deal. plea deal. >>> we learning more about the sikh temple shooter, the gunman who killed six worshipperred at a gunman on sunday was a failed soldier who played in a white supremacist heavy metal band. that is what police and the fbi are saying. we get more from lawrmt live in the newsroom with the latest. >> reporter: god morning. although authorities won't speculate on a motive behind the shooting, we are learning more about where the investigation may be going. this is the man that police say carried out the attack. 40-year-old army veteran wade michael page. his murder weapon, a nine millimeter handgun purchased legal my in mississauga in -- purchased legally in milwaukee. we are being told that wade michael page played in

. >>> guilty plea. jared loughner admits to the tucson shooting spree that left six people dead and wounded former congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> mr. loughner will spend the remainder of his natural life in prison. >>> seeking shelter, more than a million people in china are evacuated ahead of a powerful typhoon that left parts of the philippines underwater. >>> tangled up. a police officer is called in to rescue a bull moose wrapped in a a police officer is called in to rescue a bull moose wrapped in a child's swing set. captioning funded by cbs. >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, august 8, 2012. >>> yes, i said moose. wait until you see that story. good to be with you. the rhetoric on the presidential campaign trail is heating up. this morning is the issue a flap over welfare work requirements and former president clinton is on this one. a just released poll carries good news for both candidates. manuel gallegus is in washington with more. good morning to you. >> good morning terr

judge larry burns agreed and quickly moved forward with a hearing to consider a plea agreement. prosecutors waiving the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea and a sentence for life in prison without any possibility of parole. the judge described in detail the violent offense of the day six were killed and 13 injured and referred to all of the victims by name, as he read the counts aloud. loughner responding after each, quote, i plead guilty. and burns accepted the pleas. >> we feel that this is a certain, just, and appropriate resolution of this case. >> reporter: official sentencing legal formality will take place in november. but it's nowhere near the end of the healing process for the victims or this scarred city. >> it's been a difficult day. we -- we remember the six that aren't with us today. and it hurts. >> reporter: a pain, survivors say, that can't be eased by anything that happens in a courtroom. jay gray, nbc news, tucson. >>> last night texas went ahead with a controversial execution of the mentally retarded man. after the u.s. supreme court refused to interv

allowing him to enter the guilty plea.lculable, giffords and mark kelly said avoiding a trial will allow us, and we hope the whole southern arizona community to continue our recovery. another victim from the day agreed. >> i came within a, maybe a couple of inches of losing my life at the safeway. and that -- that kind of experience stays with you. >> reporter: loughner's attorneys had to persuade the federal judge to allow loughner to enter the guilty plea. a psychiatrist who evaluated him testified he showed signs of depression as early as 2006. he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. officials have been forcibly medicating him for more than a year. his psychiatrist said the treatment seemed to be helping. loughner told her he was remorseful for his actions, especially what he did to 9-year-old christina taylor green killed in the shooting spree. >> there is never closure because -- christina is never going to ring my doorbell again. the wound is always open. there is a hole in the world. >> reporter: prosecutors will not s

they said he was competent to stand trial and then accepted his 19 guilty pleas.eaction from the courthouse. >> reporter: he pled guilty on thursday to the charges. a thinner, expression list laugh ner repeated i plead guilty 19 times each for one count. >> he will spend the remainder of his natural life in prison with no possibility of parole. >> reporter: a federal judge ruled that months of psych tropic medication and counseling made him competent to stand trial and enter his pleas. for some survivors in the courtroom, it was little comfort. >> i'm glad he knows what he did. it doesn't change the fact. >> reporter: the plea deal spares him from the death penalty. it also spares the survivors and the victim's families from the pain of a lengthy trial. >> i grabbed him from the throat and i said don't move or i'll choke you. >> reporter: the retired officer grabbed him and he said he's glad it's over. >> i want him locked up so he's being punished for what he did so he can never do something like that again. >> reporter: gabbie giffords was not in the courtroom.

we understood a plea deal was in place.e judge needed to determine is whether or not he's competent to not only stand trial but enter a guilty plea. >> what this does is, this clears the way for loughner to enter that plea and avoid a trial? >> that's right. my understanding is he's going to plead guilty to 19 charges. >> some of the victims, most notably gabrielle giffords is happy a trial will be avoided. her husband released a statement. gabby and i are satisfied with this plea agreement. the pain and loss caused by the events of january 8, 2011 are incalculable. avoiding a trial will allow us and the whole southern arizona community to continue with our recovery and move forward with our lives. sunny, and correct me if i'm wrong, what this does is it avoids loughner of having to face the possibility of the death penalty? >> i think that's right. my understanding of the plea he will be entered into is he will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. this is a good outcome for the government and a

>>pam: no plea entered for the suspect arrested in the sierra lamar murder case.gan held teenager was last seen on the morning of march 16th on her way to school. a few weeks later the santa clara sheriff's department and arrested antolin garcia torres for her murder. her body has yet to be found. haaziq madyun was in the san jose where supporters of sierra lamar, were there. >> there were plenty of deputies on hand. it was standing room thirdly -- it was standing room only mostly with supporters of sierra lamar. safe >> the clique traverse a lot of time lines. the defense does not want to enter a plea until they're ready to go. >> i hope that he says where she said. >> he has been in jail for almost four months and has not said a word. >> also not speaking were family members who apparently did not know he was not want to be present to enter his plea. has been rescheduled late august. >> police in oakland are investigating a possible murder attempt near lake merritt. this is a " earth maps of the location a person jogging this morning found the victim just after

. >>> a federal judge in arizona says a plea deal has been reached with the suspect in last year's deadly tucson shooting that wounded former congresswoman gabriel gafrd. jared loughner is due in court today for a hearing to decide whether he's mentally competent to change his plea. nbc's jay gray has that story. >> reporter: it has been more than a year and a half since the storm of gunfire that ended six lives, injured 13, and forever changed this community. 19 months that included funerals, a one-year memorial, and a continuing struggle for the city and victims who survived, including former congresswoman gabriel giffords, the target of the attack. it's also been more than a year since we first saw this haunting grin of jared lee loughner, the man accused in the killing spree. time that the 23-year-old has spent in a federal mental hospital after being found incompetent to stand trial. initially, his court appearance later today was to consider treatment from doctors and psychologists and the use of psycho trophic drugs that made loughner stable enough to understand the murder and atte

a potential guilty plea that could spare loughner the death penalty and allow many in this still injured community the opportunity to continue to heal. jay gray, nbc news, tucson. >>> well, now for another look at the national weather we turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. >> hello. >> hello. how are you? >> a little bit of ernesto, a little bit of drought. but nothing too bad. >> all right, good. you haven't had your coffee yet have you bill karins? >> oh, no. yeah, a little late on the caffeine. good morning, everyone. ernesto continues to be the big weather story across the atlantic. it did flare up a little bit yesterday. almost a hurricane out there. and the winds did batter jamaica just a little bit as we went through sunday night and into monday. winds really didn't do too much damage. just some squally type weather. jamaica's weather will be dramatically improving during the day today. new advisory from the hurricane center, winds are now at 65 miles per hour. so it's actually close to hurricane strength headed to the west/northwest at 13.

that is part of a plea agreement. loughner today told a federal judge he is competent and understands the charges against him. nbc's jay gray is live in tucson with more on today's hearing. jay? >> jim, yeah. he had closely cropped hair, wore a khaki prison jump suit. he spoke softly and answered briefly when questioned by the judge. but what jared loughner said inside the courthouse today spoke volumes. jared loughner was rushed back to the federal courthouse in tucson today behind the tinted windows of this suv. but this scarred community, the victims and their families, can't hide the pain that lingers more than a year and a half after the attack. >> it's never going to bring closu closure. >> no closure but during a competency and change of plea proceeding, perhaps answers. it began with testimony for from a forensic psychologist who treated loughner since his arrest. she described the 23-year-old as an aggressive yelling psychopath who heard voices and rambled incoherently at times when she first met him. after a

with this plea jard lofner avoids the death penalty. hefe sentence, thatin tucson, fox news. >>> san francisco mayor ed lee sadz after discussion ws the community he will not implement the controversial police tactic called stop and frisk. >> if we're not for this other program that is happening in philadelphia and chicago and new york what do we stand for here? what are we doing actively to turn the tide here? . >> major lee said he favored the new approach focussing on break patterns of criminal behavior by young people building stronger communities and using police data and information from the community to try to prevent gun violence. >>> pda cruiser makes final repairs that the hour for ruptured gas line in santa cruz. the utility says the construction crew hit the six inch line around 10:00 this morning. four square nile area around that line was -- homes and businesses were evacuated as that was lifted around 3:00 this afternoon. . >>> a neighbor shares with us this video he shot of a destructive fire in san francisco. the scary

. >> in exchange for his guilty pleas, law for will escape the death penalty.ife without parole. he was additionally earth -- initially diagnosed as a schizophrenic and spent the last year under forced medication. today a federal judge ruled that he was mentally competent to go along with the plea deal. today gabrielle gifford and her husband released a statement saying that they are content with the plea saying that it will help the will forward with their lives. also at peace with this deal, a woman who lost her husband. >> i think life in prison would be a lot worse. i think if his mind is kept under sedation he might have a chance to learn about the lord and that is important. >> during testimony we learned that he showed remorse last year after finding out that a child had died in the massacre, but when he heard that he failed to kill the congress will but he said to himself, jerry is a failure. in >> a suspect dressed in hospital scrubs allegedly tried to kidnap a baby, telling the mother to take a shower. >> sheep that the baby in a tow and tried to leav

giffords, who wasn't in court, said she was satisfied with the plea. her husband, mark kelly wrote, by avoiding a trial the community can continue with our recovery and move forward with our lives. survivors in the courtroom wipe back tears and said they supported the court's decision. >> we need to move forward and make sure that good comes out of this. >> it's not a perfect solution. the perfect solution is one that we can't have. >> jared lee loughner will officially be sentenced november 15th. he will not be eligible for parole. brian? >> miguel almaguer, starting us off from tucson tonight. miguel, thanks. >>> in the milwaukee suburb of oak creek, wisconsin, investigators are still trying to figure out why that man opened fire in a sikh temple over this past weekend. tonight in colorado his step mother is speaking out. nbc's john yang has the story. >> reporter: when laura page heard police accuse wade michael page of the sikh temple shooting rampage she didn't recognize her former step son. >> he was a happy person and a happy child. what happene

if the judge agrees it moves to a plea hearing in which loughner is expected to plead guilty. >> whenefendant entered a guilty plea that is going to send him away for life without a possibility of parole, this judge will ask a large amount of questions, many questions, i should say, for purposes of making sure this is a voluntary plea. that he knows and understands the consequences of the plea. >> reporter: we are hearing commander mark kelly, husband of former congresswoman gabby girveds who was injured in the shooting. kelly said we don't speak for all of the victims or their families but gabby and i are satisfied with this plea agreement. the pain and loss caused by the events are incalculable. avoiding a trial will allow us and we hope the arizona community to continue with our recovery and moved forward with our lives. those in the courtroom could hear laugher in describe to the judge what his actions, or the attorneys could do it. security is tight inside the courthouse. we have been told by our producer they set up metal detectors, something she has not seen in any of the lifer

madison in his plea statement and cannot explain what he is apologizing for.hese are the sorts of things that make clear to me that the conduct was for. -- poor. i do not think it amounts to official misconduct, but i do not want there to be any illusion to my view about whether it was appropriate conduct or not from what i would expect from an elected official. but i do not think it rises to official misconduct. >> you are talking about this item only? >> yes. any other views with respect to the factual allegations? of course, the parties submitted a joint statement which was somewhat helpful in us trying to determine what facts we really need to find and discuss here. we have addressed, i think, the most salient ones. there are a couple that we may want to address just so that we can ensure that we have established the predicate for our discussion of the law and the application of the law to the facts. i think it is undisputed that the share of -- sheriff was elected on november 8, 2011, and that he was sworn in on january 8, 2012. i also think that there is

jared loughner entered a guilty plea in court ... admitting to opening fire on a political townhall meeting held by then congresswoman gabrielle giffords who is still continuing her recovery. loughner's plea came after a judge found him competent to stand trial ... after he was forcibly medicated for schizophrenia. under this plea deal .. loughner avoids the death penalty. giffords and her husband say they're satisfied with the guilty plea, and hope that avoiding a trial will allow the other victims to move on with way at the largest u-s research station in antarctica. the national science foundation is coordinating the operation at the mcmurdo station.. and an australian team is being sent in to assist. it's nine degrees below zero at the station today. the mcmurdo station is built on bare volcanic rock on ross island.. the solid ground farthest south accessible by ship. research in astrophysics, biology, medicine, geology and other scientific studies is conducted there. the american patient is in stable condition but there is no wo

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