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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101210:18:07:00

guilty on count 1 and 2. i will tell you momentarily what those counts are and whether or not this determines i don t know if you know this, b.j., whether or not the finding of guilt means they have determined that he is mentally responsible? that s correct. if he has been found guilty then the insanity defense did not work. this man has been held criminally responsible. what the smart family has wanted ever since this case started. they have really received today which is a guilty verdict. all right. so this is what they wanted. this means the attempt to have him declared not guilty by reason of insanity has failed. what are the what are the logical outcomes of that? what happens? does he have appeal rights now? yes. the next phase will be the sentencing by the judge. because we re in federal court, that will not happen today. there will be a period of time in a couple months where he will actually be sentenced and then

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101210:18:06:00

that, what happens if they didn t read the evidence correctly? you know, we live with jury decisions, whatever they are. now, if he is found guilty and not insane then he can expect a lengthy period of appeals where the defense will appeal to the higher courts and they will have a lot of issues to fight about. what s unique here my goodness, this young woman went through this hellish experience, maybe years ago, why are we just now having a trial now? that s because a state trial in utah was attempted, but the judges found him incompetent and so then the federal government took over. the federal prosecutors took the case and had to march forward. that s why we re so long down the road to knowing what s going to happen to this man. we are getting verdicts in as we speak right now. he is guilty on count 1 and guilty on count 2. at the moment. my producer is giving me this information right now. brian david mitchell found

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101210:18:02:00

joins me, criminal defense attorney b.j. bernstein joins me now on the phone. b.j., in some cases the establishment of insanity is left to a jury. in some cases it s left to a judge. tell me a bit about this process. well, actually in this case what happened is the judge in this case actually determined the first threshold of the defense, incompetency, could this man, mr. mitchell even stand trial because was he able to help his lawyers? was he able to be able to handle himself in the courtroom such that he could even have a trial? and this federal judge said, yes, he could, although a year earlier a state court judge in utah said, no, he couldn t. so the fact that we re even at this second, you know, trial so to speak in a way of his mental health issues puts it unique. now we re at the stage where the

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