[ applause ]. John our legal system is a mess. Every single lawyers due takes forever, and the guilty get away with it. But at the same time lots of people are locked up for things they didnt do. We know that now because dna evidence is more available. These innocent people were jailed. I was wrongfully convicted of a murder and rape of my friend, and i spent almost 20 years in prison nar crime. I spent 11 years and 3 months in prison. 20 years, 9 months and 5 days in prison for a crime i didnt commit. John how does that happen . Tim lynch runs the project on criminal justice for the cato institute. The system is not as accurate as people think it is . Its not. Our system is badly flawed. More flawed than many people want to admit, john. As you said since dna evidence came on the scene, we discovered weve got hundreds and hundreds of people who had their lives shattered because theyve been thrown in prison for crimes they didnt commit. John Chris Christie said without question america
Disappearing. They examined the rise of arbitration. This is over one hour. Welcome to the conversation about the disappearing civil jury trial. I have a great privilege of heading this wonderful institution. Which has a mandate from congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis. What we have the opportunity to do thanks to this Wonderful Program is to delve into a provision of the bill of rights that many of us are not familiar with. That is the seventh amendment. We are going to ask, why is it , whiche civil jury trial represented 20 of all trials in 2 ofnow represents only federal triers and less than 1 of state trials. It is a disappearing right. We were going to discuss why that happened. Lets begin with a text from the with thison in begin beautiful new edition of the constitution from the National Constitution center with a thrilling new introduction by yours truly and David Rubenstein about the relationship between the constitution and the bi
Gave a positive image and got fdr democrats. Say theympaign, people are coming over to our campaign who have been democrats their whole life. It cuts across racial, party lines. If we have the shared value, that is how we win. States. Purple, and blue we love the story. Oh, sure. [indiscernible] thank you so much. Of course. Here. Are we . Oh, right [indiscernible] you guys want a picture . Blocking thes lens. Photobombing . Cmon. You want a picture . Yeah. What is your name . Meetn . Very nice to you. Sir. Good to see you, coming out. R thank you for that. Thank you for everything you do. Tomorrow, our road to the white house coverage continues with more from the iowa state fair. We will hear from florida representative, the chair of the Democratic National committee. Also hear from Chris Christie and bobby jindal. Follow the cspan cities tour as her travel outside the national beltway. Tour isdea behind the to take the programming from American History television out on the road. We
I didnt come to represent me. I didnt camera present diane french coal. Representing the people on the street right now. Its the only heat we have in december. And the hurricane happened in august. Omebody needs to hear why were less than 500,000 people spread over 50 states . Thats the question my neighbors want to know. And again, it was 10 years ago that Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast Region will stop one Million People were displaced and about 10,000 people died. We will show you scenes from new orleans after the we dont know how it will end. It is also possible that five years down the road we will be back in afghanistan. It is much worse than the taliban. The taliban is deeply entrenched and harley defeated. If and hardly defeated. If we end up in five years in a new civil war with new save havens for the taliban and isis, then i would say does not worth the price. Sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern and pacific on cspan skew and dave. Cspans q and day. Those participating i
Did this happen . I used to think this was a safe area. We heard that lot from neighbors and residents of this apartment community. Police say the deadly gunfire took place in a first floor unit. Reporter is the victim was shot at least once and rushed to hospital. Reporter sometimes security can be sketchy with recent acts of robbery and vanldism posted on the apartment complex web site. Security is an issue here. Our cars are constantly being broken into. Bashed in with hammers or whatever. You cant even jog at night. And they had to take down one of the atm machines because people got robbed. That scared me because everything is gated here and i dont know how they get into it. Reporter homicide detectives are processing evidence. So far have no clues in a crime that has rocked this quiet tech worker bubble. Reporter homicide detectives tell me they dont have any suspects to report in this and they are not releasing the identity of the victim. Were live in our san jose studio. Back t