the law. public safety committee immediately to bring all the partners together for a transparent discussion to work out a plan to address the questions surrounding this issue. and to address those questions, let me bring in criminal defense attorney darren kavinoky and former prosecutor, faith jenkins. thanks for being with me, guys. faith, i want to start with you. this group says it s been doing this for six years. it s not like it just started and got in trouble for doing it. why would the police just now decide to enforce this ordinance? the group is obviously addressing a need in the community in raleigh on the weekends, according to this group. there s no public place that the homeless can go and actually get meals. there are no meals provided by the government. so the group is going to the park where the homeless gather and they give out meals on the sidewalk. there s an ordinance in place that says you have to have a permit. and the permit requires certain types of inspectio
that does provide hormone therapy or he may file a lawsuit and say the eighth amendment protects me. it protects against inflicting cruel and unusual punishment. i have been diagnosed with a gender identity disorder. this is something that i need treatment for, and as a prisoner, confined in prison, you are required to provide me with treatment under the constitution. that s going to be his argument. darren kavinoky? well, ultimately, this does become a medical issue. and regardless of how titillating people may find it, because it speaks to issue of sexuality and gender, legitimately, if there is a legitimate medical diagnosis, then there is an affirmative obligation to provide him, or her, with the kind of treatment that s necessary. i ve been involved in cases and seen cases in the state court system where sex change operations, not just the hormone replacement, but actual gender reassignment surgery has been performed to keep prisoners from mutilating themselves. and it becomes
darren is it better now? darren, let s talk about it. they said they wanted to address three things. number one, they said serious prosecutorial misconduct. number two, a discovery motion. number three, the status of the gag order placed on june 26th. what s going on? well, so those are some major issues that now are in front of the judge. and basically, what the defense is saying is that, look, we ve got these three serious areas of concern. we need a hearing on these issues now, that there s some time sensitivity that requires the judge to rule on them today as opposed to waiting for the next court appearance, which will be happening in a matter of weeks. and here s the most important thing for viewers to appreciate about this latest grand jury indictment activity. what this means is that there will be no probable cause hearing. and that s an incredibly important event for lawyers who are involved in these cases. it s the only time that the defense would have had to cross-examine
back in. former criminal prosecutor, faith jenkins, joins me. she s right here in new york. and criminal defense attorney, darren kavinoky joins me, he s in atlanta. faith, i m going to start with you this time. are you surprised i don t think many people are that filner is going to step down or possibly going to step down? no, not at all. this is not someone who had a fleeting moment of indiscretion. i mean, he, if you believe all of the women who have come forward, this is an individual who really displayed signs of someone who is a serial perpetrator of sexual harassment. and in a leadership position like that, that s not who you want your leaders to be and the kind of behavior you want them to accusing sexual harassment victims of sexual harassment. right. and it s completely horrible in a city, from a legal standpoint, can you imagine, and the city allowed him to be there and this behavior perhaps continue with additional women. the liability that the city would be fac
female. i want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. well. army officials say that ft. leavenworth prison does not provide hormones or sex change operations to inmates, but manning s attorney told nbc, if necessary, he will sue to get manning the hormones. well, i don t know about the sex reassignment surgery, chelsea hasn t indicated if that would be her desire. but as far as the hormone therapy, yes, i m hoping ft. leavenworth would do the right thing and provide that. if ft. leavenworth does not, then i m going to do everything in my power to make sure that they are forced to do so. let s talk now to our lawyers here. criminal defense attorneys faith jenkins and darren kavinoky are back with me. we ll turn to you now. should the army pay for the hormone therapy for bradley manning, or chelsea? well, they re arguing that they shouldn t. and it s because of their policy. they just don t perform these kind of services. but what bradley manning is going to do, he s either