Well hear live from robert in a moment. Mark is the reason roberts cousin is in prison in the first place. Sering expose, murder in green wich. He had committed hideous murder. Mark, welcome. The case was ice cold until you published your book. How did you react when you heard the verdict was overturned . Well, geraldo, it was odd that the reason it was overturned or reversed was inadequate council. Its odd when an attorney is hired because he has connections within the community, he knows Police Officers and worked in the area. Hes at the discretion of the family and michael to direct or to change him and yet they let him try to entire case. Now they complain that he was somehow inadequate. Do you believe let me get to the big picture. Do you believe the skakel and kennedy families used their power and money and connections to keep the police at bay before you got involved in the case . Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, when you look at the Greenwich Police department, they worked for
Do you believe them . The sports lead. The odds of medaling are about the same as seeing Vladimir Putin ice dancing in sochi. Even fellow members of team usa say shes weighing them down. So why is lolo jones perhaps the most buzzedabout athlete at the games . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the world lead. Is it possible that what were witnessing in ukraine is no longer just a protest but the first battle in a civil war that could tear the country apart . This is the scene in a city 2 mushgs miles to the west of kiev where a woman was shot and seriously injured during a protest outside ukraines main Security Agency just a day after bloody clashes between kiev and antiprotest police left at least 26 dead, protesters and police officers. President obama on his trip to mexico backed up threats of new economic sanctions that secretary of state john kerry made earlier against the Ukrainian Government. We hold the Ukrainian Government primarily re
Well hear live from robert in a moment. Mark is the reason roberts cousin is in prison in the first place. Sering expose, murder in green wich. He had committed hideous murder. Mark, welcome. The case was ice cold until you published your book. How did you react when you heard the verdict was overturned . Well, geraldo, it was odd that the reason it was overturned or reversed was inadequate council. Its odd when an attorney is hired because he has connections within the community, he knows Police Officers and worked in the area. Hes at the discretion of the family and michael to direct or to change him and yet they let him try to entire case. Now they complain that he was somehow inadequate. Do you believe let me get to the big picture. Do you believe the skakel and kennedy families used their power and money and connections to keep the police at bay before you got involved in the case . Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, when you look at the Greenwich Police department, they worked for
Robert James Campbell had, through his lawyers, challenged his execution on additional possibly more farreaching grounds that the drug execution policy is unkonl in light of the botched oklahoma execution. But the same court of appeals, the fifth circuit, rejected the challenge. While the fifth circuit stayed campbells execution based upon issues of mental capacity it is left to the u. S. Supreme court, the key issue whether the Death Penalty as it is currently authorized in 35 states has some form of lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the u. S. Constitution. This issue particularly acute in the wake of its disastrous application in oklahoma. Given the stake it is Supreme Court may want to revisit the issue. It turns out there is precedent. In 20072008 term the Supreme Court stayed a Mississippi Execution and as a practical matter stayed all pending executions nationwide. Tonight it is safe to say that executions in this country, at least those carried out
And then there was this. Is. We have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box. That is unwavering confidence despite the fact that the men heading u ining up the search te has been no major head way made in the search. It turns out it likely was not a ping at all. Interviewing people. Some of these people include family members of crew on board the aircraft. But the whole notion that the 227 passengers who were cleared from the investigation by the police chief last week that should suddenly say that they are not clear. They said youre correct. All the passengers have been cleared. So what he is saying now has not had an adequate explain nation yet. Of why he is going against the police chief. Not clear at all. Not clear. If or when the black boxes are secured, who will recover the information from them . The police chief here said today malaysia will lead the investigation. That is an accepted fact