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did he what we want great judges to do. he made calls based upon reason common sense and the law. and with the exception of the change of venue, historically defendants simply don t win on appeal with any great frequency. and on a case of this nag me to do a case that is not just resonated within the county but literally nationally and internationally, appellate court judges in texas who are elected to six-year terms are not unaware of the significance of a case like this. and it is not going to make it any easier for eddie ray routh to ultimately win down the appellate road in the next two to four years. does appellate court say there was a movie that came out. $400 million at the box office. a lot of attention no doubt at the oscars this past weekend nix part of the element saying the defense saying we wanted a fair
deployments. four times he left his wife and kids. to go serve. and when he came home, if you read his book, if you saw the movie american sniper, how he personally struggled with ptsd. and there is no doubt that eddie routh, who did such a heinous act, let s be clear, a heinous act, he s been struggling as well. combat changes a lot of people. and oftentimes you don t come back the same person. which is why it is so important when we send our young men and women in harm s way. and that decision is made by our political leaders. congress makes that decision to declare war. we must do it for the right reasons. we have the victims and the families of those victims. chris kyle, chad littlefield and you have eddie ray routh. and as you discussed this on the
how your own mom would react. we ve all been following this case for over two years. at the end of the day, there are three marines, their lives and their families that have changed. one will go to jail for the rest of their lives. these are combat veterans. part of 1% of america. frankly, less than 1% of america that is borne such a heavy burden during the longest war in american history. many of these folks who have deployed multiple times. the defendant in this case, eddie routh, he deployed twice in iraq and then haiti. and two victims. you look at chris kyle. one of the most famous marines in our country, four
insanity. on the other hand, you have andrea yates killing her kids in the bathtub, and dina cutting off her baby s arms. there s no way to explain that. and the verdict in those cases was not guilty by reason of insanity. you don t really have to have a motive. you can think someone is mean evil and psychotic. michael snims, thank you so much for all of your help on msnbc giving us the perspective on what s been happening as just happening about an hour ago. we had that verdict of guilty coming from the judge of eddie ray routh of the murder and killing of chris kyle and chad littlefield. we re 1:15 into that. we ll have more. we ll be back.