jenna: we ll start with you, first, arthur because obviously you. look in a swimsuit. jenna: is there anything she can do? she sign ad contract she would provide accurate information. does the beauty pageant owe her any information before they allow her in the contest. she supplied accurate information. date of birth, social security number and social security card and whatever kind of identification they wanted she gave to them. it was like at two different levels. it was at the state level and i think the national level. both times they verified and gave her a green light to go forward. and then, after they give it to her, they take it back, after she cancels her master s program, after she can sells her job at department of justice. i m saying lawsuit. jenna: what would be the lawsuit though, fred? a lot of things. look, you know my dedication to the law knows no bounds and my opinion in this matter is not affected by pictures of her in
outnumbered at top of the hour. it s a good one. jon: that sounds interesting. we ll be watching. thank you. jenna: she is beauty, grace and apparently just too old. 24-year-old amanda long acre was stripped of her miss delaware title and scholarship money less than two weeks after she was crowned because of her age. the miss america pageant is in september. long acre will turn 25 in october. the fine print states states that contestants must be 24 years old through december 31st to qualify for miss america. her october birthday, now makes her inhe willable to compete. despite officials having and verifying her birth certificate, her driver s license and social security card before she even entered miss delaware. let s bring in our legal panel. arthur aidala, fox news legal analyst and fred tecce, former federal prosecutor on a topic that we know you re experts at. i m a former beauty queen.
circumstances. like my colleague mentioned, if you can t show clear and convincing evidence that there s a relationship between that childhood that was very troubled and challenging and the act of murdering a cop, i don t imagine why we would allow those things to happen that s not the legal standard. jon: all right. we re going to leave it there [inaudible conversations] that s not the legal standard in texas. it s not. jon: all right. we re going to let the attorneys go here. dr. chuck, stick around. john, fred, thank you both. we want to get dr. chuck s view on happy easter to you, fred. i want to get dr. chuck s view on a story we talked about last hour. jenna: it s the story of mike anderson, he s a man in missouri sentenced to 13 years for a robbery he committed back in 1999 when he was in his early 20s. he never served the time because of a clerical error. since then he started a business, he got married, he has four kids, he volunteers at his church, and this past jul
university. welcome to each of you. thanks for having me. thank you. jon: john, to you first. this guy was convicted, he s sitting on death row but now comes, apparently, the claim that his attorneys didn t give the court enough information about his abusive childhood and, therefore, his conviction should be thrown out, he should get a new trial. is that appropriate? i think so. i think there wasn t enough mitigating evidence presented. i think the key is whether or not he had a fair trial at the sentencing phase, and without the jurors knowing about his abusive past, specifically that he was beaten up as a child by two adults, he had a very bad substance abuse problem, his father hit him over and over again, i mean, the jurors need to hear that. now, whether or not they agree or not agree is not the issue. the issue is whether or not he had a fair trial at the sentencing phase specifically at the death penalty phase, and without that mitigating evidence and the red flags that we
it s clear ineffective assistance of counsel under the washington v. strickland case. they didn t check the red flags. look, we re not saying that strategy wasn t used here, but in order to invest in strategy, you have to know what all your options are. and without the lawyers completing a proper and thorough investigation and at the very least getting a mitigation expert to review the this case, i agree with the court, i think it was ineffective assistance. jon: but, fred, regardless of what led up to all of this, christopher james is dead. i mean, christopher james was an off-duty cop working at a dallas club. does it matter to him? does it matter to his widow, to his little kid what kind of life the shooter had prior to pulling the trigger? no. it doesn t matter to them one bit. their father s just as gone, and his wife s still a widow, and that child s still orphaned. it s a horrible, horrible case. john s right about this though, jon, the fact of the matter is that this is a dea