and jeb i m better looking than my brother bush will be on with jake tapper on at 4:00 p.m. he says that with a lot of relish. tune into the republican debate here on cnn on wednesday, september 16th at 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, you ll find out which candidates will be on the main debate stage. in a few moments, we ll be speaking to donald trump. up next, more on the court hearing for the former charleston police officer seen on video shooting that unarmed black suspect in the back. will new defense evidence shed new light on this case?
then we get into the things that matter for the defense. absolutely i did. on thursday they called me at school and said we re releasing eddie. you need to pick him up. you begged the u.s. government not to release your son. yes, sir. we hear this again and again, i ve been saying from the beginning, the trial is about things that are bigger than just the facts of this case. congressman tim murphy out of pennsylvania has a bill families can t get help for people who are mentally ill. the defense was saying they knew he was sick. he had been put inside four times. voluntarily and involuntarily. why didn t that matter enough? well this was the strongest defense evidence in the case. you had the family pleading with the va saying keep him in the hospital. in the va having recognized and diagnosed extreme mental illness. right. and this is one of the many reasons why this case is so sad. is because everyone knew that routh was a very troubled
hopeful that there is a slight chance he might be released. take a listen. the trial begins and ends and you have a jury deliberate here. you only have a judge and he can take bits and pieces of it at various times. tomorrow will be the first time the judge received any defense evidence. that would be today. that sound bite was from yesterday. the hearing begins an hour and four minutes from now. it is all about intent. his mexican attorney and american advocate say it is all about intent. it was 0 intent to take them across the border. they were immediately declared in his car and he got to the the border checkpoint and mentioned he didn t want to cross over. and we ll have all of the details and our producer is in the courtroom and we ll give you
wondering if he can come home. andrew tahmooress seems comfortable about his release. the next hearing is tomorrow. and phillip dunn who is his criminal defense attorney who played a role in getting a new attorney for him. the sergeant s mother is headed to mexico today and you are going after the interview. do you expect him to be sprung from jail tomorrow? i don t think we can anticipate that. it is an interesting system where they will take the hearing and presentation of defense evidence in sections. so we are probably going to put some of our best evidence forward tomorrow but at this point we cannot really say what the judge is going to do. he can rule at any time. and it is a long process but
with it. we re hearing this accidental interview we did. when they first went into the jury room, there were three who wanted not guilty, two who wanted manslaughter and one juror who wanted second degree murder. obviously they all came to the not guilty decision. race did not play a role, and none of the jurors played a role in this trial. that s something you believed all along? absolutely. i kept saying it had nothing to do with race, and race was put on top of this case, by certain people who wanted it to be a racial event. and people who created the racial intones of this case, but it wasn t appropriate. i m so happy that the jury s able to see through that. at least ignore it. one of the things this jury said was the testimony of chris serino. you guys really did a masterful job of talking to on the witness stand. some of the analysts, jeff toobin said he had never seen a police officer give such favorable testimony to a defense evidence. witness.