you know, was this person acting in self-defense. right. this is sort of how zimmerman is let go, because the police, and he wasn t arrested at the scene, because the police believed his story in part because the law says that, you know, you have to have probable cause to believe that the person is lying about having acted in self-defense. that is really what makes florida s law unique, because even though we have these laws on the books in 25 states and almost in every circumstance in you say that i killed this person in self-defense, you still have to prove it, but you have the prove it in court. we generally don t ask the police to make that judgment at the time. jonathan, i want to go the you on exactly this, your work as a professor and psychiatrist as both of them is in part about this assumption about how people are making decisions. so we just heard nicole bell say they were using the, the police officers were using their discretion in the killing of her fiance and in this ca
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today the hearings began for the soldiers facing murder charges accused of killing three afghan civilians and the interrogation tapes you see a painted picture of american infantry man who smoked hash at night and killed for sport during the day. drew griffin investigates for tonight s special investigation. reporter: corporal jeremy more locke is accused of killing three afghan civilian men. two by shooting and the third, as described to a military investigator, was literally a set-up he says, by his platoon leader, staff sergeant calvin gibbs. we went to his compound. they walked him out and set him in place, and like, hey, stand here. he was fully cooperating? yeah. was he armed? no. where did he sit him? next to a wall. that s where gibbs could get like behind cover after the grenade went off and then off over here out of line of sight. and you know, he pulled out one of his grenades, american grenade, you know, pop the it and throws the grenade and then tells me