smith family. buster murdaugh was never interviewed by police about the 2015 case. the attorney for stephen smith s mother eric bland says he plans to petition a judge to exhume smith s body and get an independent autopsy conducted. he also said the murdaugh name had high influence in the area and possibly intimidated witnesses. he hopes they ll speak more freely now. back to you. c thank you for that. here to discuss, carol lamb, in studio, great to see you in person. i wonder a cold case like this, and the entire tv show dedicated to cold case, and eight years later, what are the challenges for prosecutors? as we have all seen on tv, chris, there are obviously challenges both forensic and witness challenges. forensic evidence obviously dissipates over time. it s a little bit harder to find murder weapons, and the body is
wanted to do so. we know he has declund ined tha. the defense attorneys met with the prosecutor s office. exactly the timing of how all this will play out, i don t think we should speculate. i think it is safe to say we have seen witnesses like michael cohen go in. he was there for two days. whether any additional witnesses or evidence come forward, the grand jury has an option to ask for that if it wants to we don t see any witnesses going in today doesn t mean there won t be. but safe to say that we have reached an advance stage. so, carol, is there any difference in the way at this stage, if we think it is the late stage and that seems to be the general consensus, in the way of manhattan d.a. s indictment or lack thereof might work, how the grand jury process works versus, say, a federal prosecution? sure. there are a few differences when have you a state prosecution, for example. if they have wanted to file an indictment and then go to arrest
protesters building barricades setting fires, a huge police presence and they re preparing for a very long night there. we want to do a deeper dive on what this means with paris correspondent for the washington post. we saw, rick, the fiery protests across france yesterday overnight. incredible season. lawmakers were very unhappy about what was happening here. how did it come to this? this is really weeks in the making perhaps even years, frankly. he is trying to reform the requirement age of the labor system for many years ever since he s been elected in 2017. over the past few months, he s made this commitment to pass this retirement reform to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 and he has quite a lot of interest groups over the past
now breaking news out of new york, a number of agencies from the fbi to the nypd laying the groundwork ahead of the decision on whether former president trump will or will not be indicted for security. nbc s senior legal correspondent covering this story for us also with me, former federal prosecutor carol lamb what is also an msnbc legal analyst. let me back up for a second, if i can, laura do we know really where we are in this grand jury process and once they would wrap up, is there a general time line for when we might learn something? i can assure you, every reporter in the country is working very hard with all the sources to find out where we are in the process we know we reached what i sthin is an advanced stage, final stage. the reason we know that is because of the reporting that trump s attorneys were put on notice they could bring their client in to testify if he
according to the affidavit obtained by msnbc, she was taken to the hospital back in october of 2021 with labor pains and told doctors she had taken an abortion pill. she then delivered a stillborn baby at 25 weeks, but south carolina law prohibits abortions after 20 weeks gestation and the hospital notified police. this case raises wide ranging questions about women s privacy and whether more states will look to prosecute women who use medication to end a pregnancy. let me bring in former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst carol lamb. as you well know, normally a medical provider is charged in a state where abortion is illegal, not the woman, and in fact, i saw a recent poll that showed 14%, just 14% of americans think a woman should be prosecuted if she has an abortion. but could this become more common now, especially with roe overturned? yeah, chris, i think what you re pointing out is very important here.