the jury could award hogan even more. when the jury read their verdict on friday, he hugged his legal team and shed a team. gawker nick brushed their verdict as unjust. >> given the key evidence and the most important witness in this case, with help from the jury, we all knew that this -- the appeals court would need to resolve this case. >> mr. blend is happy. this is not only his victory today, but also anyone else victimized by journalism. >> jurors were asked to consider punishing gawker even more with financial damages. >> to deter gawker and other similarly situated now being asked to punish my clients further, an additional punishment that is unnecessary. $115 million is punishment enough. >> and those demonstrate the complete [indiscernible]. the punitive damages to apply against gawker and its founder, nick. but so far, we don't [indiscernible]. >> we apologize for that. jeff having trouble with his signal. >> we'll bring the update once the jury comes back we'll bring that to you. >>> authorities say a team was

. >>> we have breaking news, the jury has reached a decision in we understand the jury has awarded erin $55 million. that verdict just coming down right now, moments ago. the suit was against the company that owned and operated the nashville marriott at vanderbilt, also against michael barrett, the convicted stalker. andrews asked originally for $75 million. there was tearful testimony on the stand. we watched it all last week. earn is the daughter of steve andrews, of course, again, just recapping, a jury in nashville, tennessee, coming back with a $55 million verdict against that nashville marriott, and michael barrett, her accused stalker who took those naked videos of her inside the hotel. we'll bring a full wrap up of the trial later on news channel 8. >>> in other news, rusting steel columns with significant corrosion are being blamed for an incident at a clear water beach shopping plaza that sent people running. part of the balcony where they were standing actually shifting under their feet. peter bernard joins us live peter, is the building safe to enter now? >> reporter: good e

will the same jury feel the same way with hulk hogan? it is a local jury and he is from the area so he may have more sympathy. >> reporter: if hogan's team convinces the jury what gawker did was illegal he doesn't believe hogan will get close to $100 million. our one chance to set a tone. we can condemn this practice of journalism and anybody ruling for hogan can raise the bar of what journalism should be. if they think that way gawker is in trouble. >> reporter: out here live the defense will call witnesses to the stand at 9:00 a.m. monday morning. first, a judge is going to hear a motion by bubba the love sponge. he wants to reject the subpoena for him to testify in the trial. we'll bring it to you live monday morning at 9:00 a.m. live in st. pete jennifer titus 10 news wtsp. >>> helping you make your choice in 2016. some very telling numbers out of an exclusive poll from the ledger and 10 news wtsp. here's now the numbers shake 22% are willing to vote for a third party canidate. biggest number is 9% are undecided which would greatly he

the forensics, explaining to the jury all that blood. how could a simple fall have the staircase walls? >> the defense will call dr. henry lee to the stand. >> celebrity medical examiner, henry lee of o.j. case fame would show the jury in theatrical fashion just how kathleen falling and staggering about coughing up blood could have accounted for the spray. >> an injured person walking, can move, can shake their head. can move their head. can move the arm. can step forward. >> obviously, the blood all around was due to her being alive and moving around for some period of time. it didn't have to do with what inflicted the wounds. >> and the blood on his shorts? that could have happened the defense said while michael peterson was cradling his wife. as for the other blood evidence, the police said proved that michael peterson had tampered with the scene, drops of blood in the house and more on the walkway outside, none of that could be trusted attorney rudolph told the jury. been completely altered. the scene at the house had been completely

and the jury almost in a trial within a trial heard that story. the long ago germany friends testified about their suspicions about michael peterson's involvement in another stairway death. another one with so much blood. >> the blood was up so high that i -- i couldn't figure out how did the blood get up there. >> it was the bow that wrapped up the state's case. >> do you really believe that lightning strikes twice in the same place? >> michael peterson had been the last person known to have seen not only kathleen peterson alive but also elizabeth ratliff. >> that's a whole lot of women dead at the bottom of the stairs in this guy's life. don't you think? >> so, there was the prosecution's case for conviction. blood evidence. a staged scene and the trigger. the violent confrontation between husband and wife that resulted when a secret appetite for men was exposed. and not a bit of that made any sense the defense was about to tell the jury. the prosecution said it was missing. guess what turned up. >> my heart started pounding. >> and the defense's

. >>> we're waiting for the jury to hand down a verdict in the leaked sex tape scandal. jennifer titus has been covering the trial since the beginning. jen, any word on o how close the jury is to handing down a decision? >> reporter: they've been in there for 4 hours. it's been a long 2 weeks from them. they've heard it'll from hulk hogan, nick denton, and multiple expert witnesses. they now have to decide whether or not hogan's privacy was he suffered emotionally or whether or not posting this video was gawk aer's first amendment right. >> they didn't have the common decency to call one person involved in it before they posted this story. it probably tells you as much gawker. >> reporter: hogan's attorney, animated and aggressive during his arguments, letting the jury posting of the sex tame is nothing that hulk hogan ever wanted. >> with a click, uploads this thing into an internet and turns this man's life upside down. there's not one thing about that that terry bollea created. >> reporter: he spoke about a.j. dau lerks rio and nick denton as rule breakers who have no

. >> reporter: what really went on in the jury room? >> not guilty of a crime of murder. >> all people wanted to do was go home. and, in a frank, new interview, prosecutor marcia clark answers the most important question of all. >> reporter: how did you not convict this guy? >> reporter: we'll also hear from oj simpson himself who told his story under oath in these explosive deposition tapes. >> if her face was black and blue the next day or two days later i was responsible for it. >> reporter: and now questions about a knife supposedly found at oj simpson's old house. >> obviously there is a lot of attention to this. >> reporter: the oj simpson case, two decades later. i'm lester holt and this is dateline. here's josh mankiewicz. >>> reporter: june 12, 1994, brentwood, california. two horrific murders that came to be defined by just three >> o.j., please surrender immediately. >> orenthal james simpson. >> i have o.j. in the car. >> we do have sufficient evidence to convict him. >> 100% not guilty. >> how about that? >> if it doesn't fi

the jury returns a verdict in the hulk hogan sex tape trial. the jury has returned a verdict this this this is not only his victory but everyone else who has been victimized by tabloid journalism. >> a big victory for hulk hogan because of a sex tape posted on line. >> it sounded like a sonic boom. >> but it was a plane crashing and bursting into flames. investigators still don't know what caused it. >> i'm honored to call john a hero today. he earned it and he deserves it. their own killed in the line of duty. >> good evening, i'm cynthia smoot in for kelly ring. >> and first up at 10:00 the jury has delivered a bit of a body slam to gawker ruling in favor of hulk hoaken hogan acarding awarding him an astonishing $115 million in his lawsuit. christen, i know you've been looking into this. we'll start with a bit of a tough blow for gawker, though. >> definitely, mark, and gawkers attorneys have argued from the beginning that this case could have an impact on freedom of speech and that people may start to use our courts to punish people. the jury took six lowrs to deliberate and gawker

the problem was the jury didn't wanna believe. and so at the end of the day, you can't make someone believe something they don't want to believe. >> reporter: but there was plenty of other evidence besides dna that the prosecution never showed the jury. like the police interview with simpson. or his emotional farewell note and the ensuing bronco chase. those were critical lost opportunities, says detective tom lange. >> i had a problem from day one, because of evidence that they didn't wanna put on. >> and you'd say to prosecutors, "what are you doing?" and they would say, "don't worry, we have dna evidence." >> they didn't say that, they obviously implied that. we kept getting evidence, getting more and more evidence. and they weren't having anything to do with it. >> reporter: but clark says she was concerned that the bronco chase, simpson's police note" might play sympathetically to the jury. >> i have to look for the most objective evidence i can. i can't go to them and say, "this is what i think." because any of these kind of

the jury has been deliberating for five hours today. hogan is suing gawker for posting a clipon line involving hogan and the former wife of sponge. have we heard anything, we did, they wanted help playing a clip of that sex tape so we know they have viewed it. and hogan's team went to work, accusing guamer of violating hogan's right to privacy after they say it is gawker's reckless disregard and they want the jury to award him 100 million dollars in damages. gawker said hulk hogan talked in graphic detail about his sex life. and he was in character as hulk hogan when he talked talked about his sex life and on howard stern, tmz, performance on the tape. they challenged hogan's attorney saiding if that was so damage and hurtful why didn't they show it to the jury during the trial? >> why did they not show you that video? the video that is the reason we are all here. because that video does not show all that much. the video gawker posted is not like a real sex tape. it's not like kim kardashian, -see close ups, body pardons, you don't see g

simpson, what the jury never heard" this sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> closing arguments wrapped up late today in the erin andrews civil trial. the sports reporter is demanding $75 million after she was secretly filmed in a hotel by a man later convicted of stalking her. and beginning monday the case will be in the hands of the jury. we get more from nbc's morgan radford. >> erin andrews is a victim. >> reporter: erin andrews' legal team making its last attempt to convince a jury that she's still emotionally damaged from the stalker video that was secretly recorded eight years ago at the nashville vanderbilt marriott. >> the trauma happens day after day and it's never going to stop. >> reporter: her lawyers arguing that the former owner and management company, along with convicted stalker michael barrett, should pay andrews $75 million for emotional distress and loss of privacy. earlier this week andrews says she's still haunted by it >> it's going to be on the internet until i die. >> reporter: but the hotel says it did not give barrett her

and the jury's deliberating and waiting? >> yeah. we were getting more and more optimistic, too, because the longer the jury's out, we're thinking they're having trouble, doubts. >> finally, on day four, they got word. the jury had a verdict. >> we were absolutely terrified. we knew the magnitude of this decision. >> a hush, and then the clerk began to read. unanimously find the defendant to be guilty of first degree murder. >> i felt violently ill. we all sort of reached over and grabbed each other as if we were trying to hold on to the family. it was definitely a terrible moment in my life. >> as soon as we heard the first juror say guilty, i just was weeping like i was being taken over by grief and shock. >> is there anything you want to say before the court imposes punishment? >> i would like to say -- >> michael peterson turned to his kids. >> he said, it's okay. it's okay. i think on his part he was just trying to calm himself down. but also i think he felt like his role was to protect us. >> he was acknowledging that we had a h

later this morning it should be in the hands of the jury. now on monday jurors heard from an expert with taser international who confirmed alex neito taser registered three trigger pulls on march 21, 2014. the four officers who opened fire and killed alex neito said they acted in self defense as they mistook the taser for a real gun. according to the chronicle this was pivotal testimony to see if excessive force was used. the safety switch was on which indicates that the taser could not have been fired. the jury heard testimony last week from alex neito's mother who showed the jury pictures of her son. we heard from a dog walker who said alex neito was acting erratic at the time of the incident and showed him the taser. out here live it looks like it will be in the jury's hands soon. jury deliberations expected to begin at 9:00 a.m. and should be up to the decision of the jury and they'll be given the race around noontime. back to you. >> brian flores in san francisco. thank you very much. >>> san jose police are releasing new details about a

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and now the jury is called back to decide if the now 31-year-old actor and conman daniel wozniak should entire proceedings was going to be, what's going to happen? what's the penalty? >> reporter: prosecutor matt murphy challenges the jury to honor sam herr and julie kibuishi and punish the man who not only killed them, but desecrated them. >> danny wozniak treated him like trash. he treated julie like trash. so the question that i ask you to answer, in your verdicts, are they? >> reporter: daniel wozniak's defense is that he is not the worst of the worst, that he is helping fellow prisoners now and deserves to live, to reform. >> he has it in him, and he's going to make a difference. is that a mitigating factor to you that warrants life? i hope so. >> reporter: back in the jury room, the vote for death is split. >> it's very different, when you are the one sitting there almost literally pulling the trigger to decide it. >> reporter: the initial vote, 10-2, death. but when the jury's thoughts turn to the surviving families, the doubt melts away. >> steve herr. the rage, the anger that h

verdict based on the time it takes to make it. brett seacat's jury deliberated six hours. what did that mean? brother bobby was nervous, of course. but had a good feeling. >> i think that the state in every respect failed to prove and make their case. >> ladies and gentlemen, have you reached a verdict? >> yes, we have, your honor. >> we, the jury, find the defendant brett t. seacat guilty of murder in the first degree. >> guilty on all counts. the reaction in the courtroom was muted. >> it was a strange mixture of emotions because there was this part of you that thought when they say guilty, i'm just going to get all this off my chest and i'm going to feel good. but then there's this big part of you that realizes at the end back. >> the truth is, everybody was just as hurt. no one won. so you think why am i not feeling better? because what got better? he is behind bars and he needs to be behind bars. but the lives that it affected will forever be affected. >> his lawyer all but said i knew it because -- >> i don't think mr. seacat got a fair trial i

but when the jury's thoughts the doubt melts away. >> steve herr. the rage, the anger that he had on that stand during the penalty phase, that was just overwhelming. when they showed the photograph of the funeral for sam. >> reporter: his life was real to you. >> absolutely, mrs. kibuishi. you know, when she's talking about her daughter being a dancer and i'm thinking about my daughters. the next thing i remember i'm sitting in my car and i'm sobbing over that testimony. >> reporter: if there is a time for a death penalty. >> this was it. >> it was not only beyond reasonable doubt, it was beyond any doubt at all. >> reporter: the final vote came quickly, in just over an hour. one of the shortest death penalty deliberations on record. the family says justice was served, 12-0. >> we the jury determine that the penalty to be imposed upon defendant daniel patrick wozniak to be death. >> i just have voted to put a man to death. with the rest of my life. and down in my gut, i said, can i live with this? and i said yes. >> reporter: and afterwards, there i

. >>> the fate of hulk hogan's $100 million lawsuit is now in the hands of the jury. the wrestling super star saying gawker should pay for violating his privacy. adam weiner was there as both arguments today. adam, are there any early clues as to which way this case could go? >> reporter: unfortunately no. three members of the jury who were alternates were sent home this afternoon after closing arguments. all three saying no comment to the media. they would have been the best insight into what the jury is thinking here in downtown st. pete right now. instead, we just have to wait and see. today the jury heard both sides make their final pitch today. hulk hogan says that his privacy was violated when they posted a video on the website. gawker says he gave up privacy when he talked about his sex life on the radio. >> it is a good thing when journalists can write about public figures without worrying whether the public figures are >> if anything, it may be the most dehumanizing and insulting content that you could possibly have written. >> reporter: the jury has been deli

how social media played a part. >> topping 11:00 tonight, the jury sided with hulk hogan in the website may have to pay the ex-wrestler $115 million, for posting a video of him having sex with the wife of a friend. and this is not overyet, either, is it crystal? >> it certainly isn't, cynthia. gawker plans to appeal the decision and have said from day one it sets a dangerous precedent for the free speech. and they say it was not that damaging to his career and his personal life but the jury ended up rules in hogan and his attorney's favor, and his attorneys say his privacy was in fact violated. his real name is terry bolea and they say he rarely has private moments and one of those is in the bedroom. he was recorded by his friend with bubba's wife. and gawker says bubba not taking the stand to testify is what hurts their case. >> i am confident that we would have prevailed at trial if we had been allowed to present the full case to the jury. >> this is not only his vehicle are you victorybut anyone else who has been victimized by tabloid journalism, we are coming back monday for the res

>> the jury awardeddrews $55 million. michael barrett is responsible for 51% of that amount and the management and hotel companythe decision was unanimous. the judge then order the the courtroom camera turned off so that andrews could speak to the jury. andrews sued for $75llion for emotional distress after a video taken of her undressing in her nashville hotel room eight years ago went ral. >> i think what really hit home for me and hurts me the worst is when girls, high school, college, they tweet me and they say want to be erin andrews except for the marriott stalker thing, and i can't control that. >> reporter: she claimed the hotel michael barrett's request to room next to her. the hotel's lawyer says barrett is a criminal who manipulated their reservation >> banks created bank robbers. are banks responsible for bank robbers? >> reporter: barrett after serving 20 minutes in he admitted he was wrong. >> i felt bad for her. i felt bad for everybody. i know the ripple effect will affectlot of people. >> reporter: now aft

the jury awarded the former pro wrestler millions. but there is a chance he will not see a dime. >>> let's get you live out to mcdill air force base where the tampa bay airfest best kicks off later this one. if you're planning to go, you may want to leave the house now. we will show you the backup. >>> we are celebrating all things today and soon it will take over the hillsborough river.

the juries award that. you know the number they put on is ahigher one. >> will this impact or hurt the first amendment. >> people agree that the first amendment doesn't protect this. but the court first would not take it down. the first amendment is a bed rock of our constitution. and it will be a licensing act throughout all of these cases. >> apparently people can't use common sense and what should or not be free speech. >> what you do in private, okay. >> jon? >> a fox extreme weather alert nouchl the cal end uponar said it is spring and i wouldn't know it in the northeast. and snow making a messy commute. and areas in new york city getting a dusting of snow. and they are live in the fox extreme weather center with more on that. >> you were not mad at me? >> no. >> you are one of the few that likes the snow. it is not out of the question to see snow in the spring time and we may see more. 10-15 below average. hence we saw the snoi snow and still snowing in parts of maine. the wind chill is down. and look

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stand and face the jury. >> reporter: o.j. simpson was tried for the 1994 knife murders of his ex-wife nicole and her friend ron goldman in a case that seemed to be on every tv set in america. in an interview airing this sunday, former prosecutor marcia clark speaks to "dateline." >> right off the bat thereto was a sense of african-american icon who had made it. he had made it. they did not want to see him taken down. >> not guilty. defendant was acquitted despite significant evidence against him, but no murder weapon was ever found and now the fx series "the people versus o.j. simpson" has surprised in the rightings as many people seem to want one more dose of a story that won't go away. this is not the first time a knife has made it to police. other knives have been submitted over the years, but this is the first one said to come from the simpson property. >>ies in nine-month criminal trial is over, he was acquitted. the civil trial is over and he was found responsible. i don't see anyone prosecuting o.j. simpson for anything