and trent copeland. and robin sax who is a former los angeles county deputy district attorney and author of "predators and child molesters." trent, you're also a cbs legal analyst. i don't wan to slight you any -- former deputy d.a., you have this evidence now for linking this doctor to using the substance that investigators believe killed michael jackson. as a prosecutor, what do you do with it? >> i'm thinking i'm filing charges first thing in the morning if that's the report i'm actually getting. the only question in my mind is whether it's going to be second-degree murder or involuntary manslaughter. >> many people would say, wait a minute, you're jumping the gun, you first have to know where he got the drug. did he get it from michael jackson? where do you look at? give it to him and that's it and it killed him? >> if he was the person that administered this drug and he was the last doctor tending to him and knows this drug can only be administered in the hospital, regardless if it was prescribed by

trent copeland, take us through this process. we know that in the anna nicole case, and this case is compared to that already, it took about a year, perhaps a little longer, before we saw charges. if this becomes a homicide investigation, do you expect this will be a lengthy one? >> i don't think that this case will be any different than anna nicole smith. in fact, i think it will be exponentially multiplied beyond that. look, there are a lot of records in this case apparently that the authorities would have to go through. michael jackson took a lot of prescription medications apparently. he apparently had a lot -- a large number of doctors, a lot of people who are willing to assist him. so you have to go through the databases associated with who prescribed the medication, when did they prescribe that medication? were they aware of michael jackson's medical history at the time of prescribing that medication? there are going to be a lot of things they have to look to. they'll talk to some of these people assuming any of these peop

defense attorney trent copeland also a cbs news legal analyst is here. stacy honowitz, florida assistant state attorney general. thank you for joining us. ted, first, to the police chief's comments. what brought before b. this change? >> basically, he said that there isn't change. from the beginning, they have treated this basically like, as he put it, an investigation into the worst case scenario. so they're treating it like a homicide investigation. if it turns out that that's not what they needed to do, then they did the work and they won't use it. but if the coroner come back and says this is a homicide, then they're prepared to have the information so basically the message is, is it stl a death investigation? yes. are we prepared for it to be a homicide investigation? absolutely. and we're waiting for the coroner. >> trent, i heard the chief use the word corroboration. doesn't that sound like it ratchets up this investigation? >> it does. and jim, as you know as an attorney, you know, the word corroboration typically has a real meaning in court. it

trent copeland and jim moret. chief correspondent for the "inside edition" also an attorney. look to you like a duck, looks like a duck, acts like a duck, criminal charges coming? >> sounds like a duck is about to get arrested for second degree murder. interesting thing there's no in between. either involuntary manslaughter or second degree murder which is 15 to life. big, big long fall there but that's the way it looks. >> murder for what, trent, for doing what? >> i'm not ebb exactly sure. larry. we've had a feeding frenzy here for the last effort weeks associating with dr. conrad murray. he gives diprivan. this is a lethal cocktail something that will certainly result in death. i'm not so sure that's a fair assessment of what the facts in the case were. most people have diprivan. if you've undergone a routine colonoscopy, you've had diprivan. there isn't always a battery of medical personnel. there may be a single doctor. may be an anesthesiologist. may sometimes be just the doctor. we talk about whether or not the cardiologist should have been with him monitoring his hear

to trent copeland. trent, we just heard from katherine jackson's attorney saying they're trying to work something out outside of the courtroom. that's what the judge asked for. that's really in the best interest of the kids, isn't it? >> i think it is in the best interest. i know this lawyer. he's an outstanding lawyer and i think that he will probably try to put together some kind of agreement with both sides, where they can feel like they've gotten something. i think debbie rowe from her perspective may not be looking for custody necessarily but may be looking for some sort of custodial right, looking so she'll have the opportunity to see these kids from time to time. >> mark geragos, you've been defending debbie rowe tonight and rightfully so. her lawyer has said she doesn't want money. she doesn't want money. it's really been cast unfairly toward her, don't you think? >> i mean, there's been for years people who have vilified her without knowing any of the facts. i don't even know the ins and the out