last june. he s serving a 30 to 60-year sentence in state prison. the judge can rule from the bench or issue a written statement or written decision later. but nothing is changing in this case. this is all just kind of theatrics in a way or what? it s not a bad argument that they didn t have time to prepare, because it was sort of rushed and they kept on asking for continuances, and the judge because i was covering that trial very closely, as you know. yeah. and the judge denied every single request. but with so many boys coming forward, i mean, so many allegations, the convictions on so many different counts, i can t imagine that any judge in this country, given what we all heard, would overturn a conviction and set jerry sandusky free. i mean, maybe he ll get something. to use a football analogy, this is his hail mary legal maneuver? i think so. i think so. okay. all right. in other news this morning, the city of boston has declared a public health emergency because
but what went wrong? shepard: it is the questions. james holmes did not enter a plea today. but given the questions about his mental health and the news that he was seeing a psychiatrist legal experts say it s likely the former neuroscience student will try some sort of insanity defense. alicia acuna live in centennial colorado with the news tonight. alyssia, prosecutors still have to decide whether they want the government to kill him for his crimes, if convicted. that s right, shep. and the district attorney has indicated that s her preference. but carol chambers has more than a month to decide. today chambers held back on what her office could have charged holmes with, deciding to focus more on the victims in the theater than his apartment building, which police say he rigged to explode. experts say the defense will drag this out. given that this is likely a death penalty case, the strategy of the defense is to keep their client alive as long as possible. every opportunity to
only eight actually testified. and a new accuser has come forward, of course. jerry sandusky s adopted son matt. that is not something that the jury is supposed to be considering tond. a scandal the likes of which punxsutawney, pennsylvania has not seen in years. the jury deliberated for 21 years after a trial that was brief but wrenching when it comes to what they heard. defense attorney said he would be shocked if they acquitted his client on all charges. in fact he said he would probably die of a heart attack. we ll know in just a few minutes what will happen. susan candiotti is outside the courthouse, we ll be talking to jeff toobin and mark geregos for legal angles. and susan candiotti, as we re looking right now, we see a lot of people on the courthouse steps. are those people who have recently gathered or have they been there all along? well, throughout the day, people have been hanging around this courthouse around especially as the hours went on into the night, the
we are tracking it. and we ll tell you how the supreme court ruling on the health care law could affect what you see at the pizza parlor. jerry sandusky is getting acquainted with the place he will likely spend the rest of his life jail. the longtime coach was found guilty late last night of sexually abusing ten boyce over a 15-year period. the verdict came after 20 hours of testimony, and the testimony from eight men. in reality, a pedophile who preyed on young boys. here is reaction from both sides of the verdict. there are many important lessons to be learned from this case. one of them is that we can t let the national focus that this case has brought upon child sexual abuse fade after these cameras are turned off and the media has shifted their attention to the next important story. we have to continue to focus on child sexual abuse, and to shine a bright light in those dark, dark places where the jerry sanduskys of the world lurk. we always felt that jerry s f
stories. hello everyone. i m don lemon. you re in the cnn newsroom. we re going to get you up to speed on today s headlines. former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky is under suicide watch this hour in pennsylvania s center county jail. sandusky will be sentenced in about 90 days. he had no reaction and kept a blank expression after last night s conviction on 45 counts of child sex abuse. a full update on today s developments just minutes away. and this is just in to cnn to the severe weather center. they are tracking a new tropical storm in the gulf of mexico right now and some of the other bands are creating a threat of tornadoes in southwest florida. tropical storm debby is packing winds of up to at least 39 miles per hour. the storm has an uncertain track and could threaten anywhere from texas to florida in the next 48 hours. we ll update you. a bloody wave of violence continues in syria this evening as dozens more people have been killed. at least 75 p