condition, but i don t like to take the decision away from the judges without the sensitivity of what they go through. and in the case of the defendant changing dramgt cli from the time of the arrest, and it is like you don t recognize him as the same person. i foe tissed that as we were watching this evening awaiting the ver dishgts and watching the the show preceding this on anderson anderson s show and the difference and wondered if it impacted. kimberly, you were in court today for the closing, and the last testimony and the closing statements, and it was very powerful and as they showed some of the video, you could not help but notice how different he looked. that is true, but this jury, and remember that the prosecution s mental health experts went so far as to say that routh not only was not mentally ill, but that he faked the mental illness, so i am not
publicity played into it, and the fact that chris kyle is a hero not only there in texas, and imagine a super hero there in texas, but around the world. how much did that play into what the jurors there had? well it always played into it. and as mark and ben have played in the big cases, these are social verdicts, and the jurors are not dlibeliberating on the evidence alone, but police inning to, and knowing that the world is actually watching the verdict. so this is a verdict about chris kyle as it is about eddie ray routh, and the verdict about the veterans and the system. these verdicts carry an impact and as a result, the jury was aware when it was deliberating that we d be discussing it right here now. and i want everyone on the panel to hold on, because we are going back to stephenville where
and this is the highest grossing war movies of all time and not mentioning the the book on the best seller list. and people read and see and hear, and if you ask the average perp on the street, what d average person on the street, they say, what did you think of kyle? they say, well, it is not just another person, but it is a person who has been portrayed by the massive media as a hero. and you can see there on the screen that we are awaiting the verdict, and with were told five minutes ago within the next 15 minutes, we will be hearing the verdict from the jury in stephenville texas, and they are a awaiting the verdict of eddie ray routh who is the man who killed the subject of the movie american sniper chris
him, hear from him, and see the body language, and the way that everything unfolded. obviously, the jury here in stephenville texas, felt that despite all of that with his attorneys saying that he was psychotic that eddie ray routh was guilty of the murders, and not guilty by reason of insanity. and this is taya kyle in the trial. eventually we found each other in the hallway, and he just said you know he was inviting inviting or he asked chad to come along. he said that chad had come to the house and just to have an extra set of eyes. and then he and then said maybe know that this guy can be trusted 100% so that this the guy is comfortable saying what
and mark i wanted to ask you when you said that three lives are lost here and even though eddie ray routh has the life, and the other two gentlemen did not have that option by the way, but should the jury have had another option here mark o mara? well, ununfortunately they don t under most states under the maximum penalty, but it does take away the discretion away from the judges. and we trust the judges with the decisions of our lives, and so i don t know why we can t say to the judge that it may be as much as life, but we will give you some discretion, because i think that we might all agree in this case, if we can look at the sentence appropriate for what he did, as heinous as it is we might not come up with the life sep tens sentence but a long-term incarsation, but a long time with the mental health