a virginia group is in trouble after releasing this image. it was part of a larger halloween ketch. it shows a zombie president with a bullet hole in his head. republican governor bob mcdonald called the image, quote, shameful and offensive. i am america one voice united we stand jon huntsman s daughters are showing their support for dad by releasing their own video poking fun at front-runner herman cain. they talked about their parody of cain s smoking ad with chris jansing. how can you not have some fun with that ad? it was a last minute thing. we saw it and thought, let s have fun with this. their father will give his t his all to win the new hampshire primary in january. will the accused testify on his behalf? that s the big question today as the trial of michael jackson s former doctor wraps up in l.a. conrad murray is expected to advise the court moments from now whether or not he will take the stand. the jury will also hear more from dr. paul white.
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attorney has already told the court that dr. murray was not going to testify. most would say it would be insane for dr. murray to testify. he would be pummeled on cross-examination. it would be a disaster. however, he will not be the first nor the last client to go against his attorney s advice to testify. it doesn t mean there aren t benefits, right? in order for this to be a hung jury, we just need one person. why not testify? what are the benefits? well, he would say, i think, to himself, all the way up to the point that he decides that the benefits may be that someone, one juror will feel sorry for him. that someone, one juror, may feel sympathy for him. that someone, one juror, may actually believe him. and so at that point, he may say, what do i have to lose? if i m going to go down for a four-year count anyway, i d rather go down swinging. i have had clients like that. they have driven the stiletto into my heart every time they
caused michael jackson s death, not dr. conrad murray. and that s what they needed from him, despite all the rest of it around it. in the in the meantime, cour back in session and we, of course, are waiting to find out whether or not dr. conrad murray is going to take the stand. rikki klieman, always great to see you. thanks. thanks for coming by. kim kardashian is back on the market. she filed for divorce from her husband of just 72 days! it doesn t seem very long, but compared to some other celebrity marriages it was an eternity. a look at those shorter marriages on the flip side. coming in at number one was minneapolis/st. paul because of the nearby mayo clinic and cultural venues. ranked second was boston because of its great public
got on the witness stand. let s talk about the testimony that we heard from dr. paul white yesterday because it really seemed as though he was being raked over the coals. i mean, especially through cross-examination. what can you make of what he had to say and also this whole contempt of court charge? well, i think the contempt of court charge is really a little bit over the top from the judge. we have seen witnesses, professional experts and others who have done far worse things than what dr. white did. of course there will be a hearing on this on november 16th. we ll see what happens. but i do think what happened with dr. white is dr. white was very clear. because this was the defense s key witness. key witness. big witness. but the defense had to know that dr. white, to save his own professional reputation had to say that dr. murray used standards of care that were so, so low, that he had deviated from any reasonable practice in his standard of care. but he says michael jack