until cross-examination when the prosecutor will come up and go through all the different stories she told about, first she wasn t anywhere near. second when the murder happened. second, two masked men came in and killed. finally she said she did it. and in fact it was self-defense? really? 27 slits across the throat. then a bullet in your head for good measure. self-defense? arthel: esther, i will give you the last word, esther. as we know a dead man can not speak. right. arthel: i ask you, esther, in closing how does all this testimony considering that this guy is no longer here and can t speak up for himself, how does this all play on the jury? well the jury has to decide if this is first agree or second-degree murder or anything he isers. if it is first-degree murder, then she is looking at death penalty. if it is not, then she is not. if the jury believes she suffered from battered woman s syndrome, by overkilling is the symptomatic of battered woman s syndrome, it is
child porn. this is desperate attempt for this woman to maybe fabricate some things to keep her off the death penalty. arthel: esther, what do you make of it? i make these abusive situations that allegedly happened prior to travis s murder do show an ability for the defense to make out a battered woman syndrome case. this would explain straight self-defense. someone is coming at me. i will attack them first. battered woman s syndrome gives an explanation to why the someone who may not be an immediate danger at the time they kill their alleged abuser actually acted in that way at that time. the pornography or alleged child pornography. it goes to corroborate if his friends may not know him as well as they did, it definitely able to, they can then see that he may have beaten her without the friends knowing. at least would agree
consistent. if she in fact was acting some kind of self-defense even if it wasn t straight self-defense they can not sentence her to death even if she is con tricked convicted of murder even if it was first degree. why get the gun a week geoff hand? that is not spur the moment. no, no. if she certainly thought she had to defend herself from something might happen, carrying the gun i m not saying this case is very good from a defense perspective. they re starting to build up their battered woman s syndrome defense. having defend ad case of battered woman s syndrome i can appreciate how hard that is. i ve done it myself. going to him, seeking him out. arthel: i will leave it right there, ladies. esther, lis, thank you very much for the lively debate. thanks, guys. thank you. jon: it s a nightmare crews. 4,000 people standed on a ship with spotty power. food is running out. toilets don t work.
does she have a point? jon, here s the bottom line, the reality of the situation. as a former prosecutor, defense attorneys, we go to social events and functions with judges all the time. jon: sure. we interact . jon: golf games. absolutely. all the time outside of court. i would say facebook is about five steps removed from the actual one-on-one personal interactions we have judges in social settings. these are the people, and i know this is where a lot of judges aren t on facebook and social media for this very reason but these are the people we entrust to make decisions on our cases to be fair and impartial. if we can t even trust them with people they re friends with on facebook, how can we then we trust them to decide the most important cases, which is people s lives in criminal cases? jon: so faith, i m sorry, esther, would you be in favor, given your thoughts on this facebook friending thing, would you be in favor of a law that says judges and attorneys can t have lunch t
mortgages going forward, with these higher premiums and with the housing market recovering, that will also bring in plenty of cash, billions that will help it to avoid a taxpayer bailout. jenna? jenna: best-case scenario there. peter, thank you so much. reporter: you bet. jon: a case in florida right now could mean big changes for judges and attorneys when it comes to their use of social media. a judge in brow card county where fort lauderdale is located face as motion to disqualify him from a case involving a prosecutor who is also his face book friend. he refused to recuse himself from the case. now the defendant is arguing he would never get a fair trial because a judge and prosecutor are pals! this raises serious questions about social media and the justice system. let s talk about it with faith jenkins, a former prosecutor. esther panich is a criminal defense attorney. esther, let s start with you.