charges. essentially what they had to do was decide whether or not cruz committed a aggravating factor, a reason that the state said that he should be put to death. they had about five of them for each of the 17 victims. the defense, they offered up dozens of what they called mitigating factors. reasons that they believe that cruz should be spared his life and instead should be sentenced to life in prison. we were expecting the deliberation process to play out for a few more days because each of the 17 counts had four pages of questions that the jurors need to answer. each of the questions was looking at aggravator and mitigating factors. it is possible that the jury could come back on an aggravating and a mitigating factor and then they have to
people in parkland, florida. the jury s decision on death does have to be unanimous. so they all have to agree that cruz should die for these murders. if there is a holdout in my of the charges, then cruz would be essentially told that he will have to spend the rest of his life in prison. the deliberation process really, again, was quite, quite short. we were expecting this could take a few more days because each of the 17 counts have four pages worth of questions. however, word came this morning that shortly after the jury took a look at that ar-15, they have reached a decision. we re expecting that to be read at 10:30 in the morning. they all have to be on the same page on death if not he will dry in prison. convicted of killing 14 students and three staff members in 2018. we ll bring that you decision live at 10:30 when its. carlos, thank you. well we re also following
so-calledal tern nat electors. the doj already faces calls and will likely face growing calls to consider criminal prosecution against the people involved in producing the documents. let s remember doj is still working on deciding whether or not to bring charges against former chief of staff mark meadows. that s a deliberation process taking longer than the deliberations regarding whether or not to bring charges against steve bannon. the processes can take quite a long time for doj. the justice department doesn t like feeling like it s under the gun. prosecutors don t like feeling like they have to race with the politically sensitive decisions and not likely to lessen the calls for doj to look seriously at criminal charges not just against the people committing violent crimes at the capitol building but also at people associated with it. sometimes in a less direct way.
tainting the rest of the games, this event for the women expected to be in just a few hours now and this ruling just coming down overnight with about a six-hour deliberation process with an independent arbitrator. important to remember how good she is. this is a 15-year-old phenom, first woman to land a quad at the olympics, wins her first event by about a country mile and is expected to sweep gold, not only for this olympics but maybe for the next consecutive olympics. she tested positive for what s been described as an illegal heart medication on december 25th. so christmas day a russian organization did suspend her but that suspension was appealed so she was allowed to compete in the games. then there was some question about whether or not she should be allowed to continue to compete. this independent arbitrator ruled she should, primarily
they re in that deliberation process at this point. they re still deliberating for about 25 hours, we just hit the 25-hour mark of those deliberations, and the big question has been, if those deliberations continue through today, will they continue through tomorrow, christmas eve or potentially this weekend, when we have the christmas holiday? and the last signal we got from the court came at the beginning of this trial, before a jury was impanelled. the judge said it was her full intentions to break for christmas eve so starting tomorrow and have the court return on monday. the problem is, this is a jury that has been sequestered. for much of this week they have not been with their family, they have not been with their friends. the judge making that motion to sequester them, making that order to sequester this jury back in august. they would have to break that sequester and then allow them to go back with their families and that s where we get into the open question of what will reall