death is a drowning. joining me is checked merlin, criminal defense attorney, donald swygert, a police officer and prosecutor, pardon me for messing up your name. good to see both of you. i say why all, because yesterday in a court room, the jury they sort of had a large outburst. aghast to some of the testimony they heard. we are talking about the pastor testifying that basically, wife number four was told to cover up for the killing, the alleged killing of wife number three. donald, i will start with you. is this the linchpin in this case? it may or may not be. i think that what we have to understand is that the jury is going to be given instructions to take this testimony with a lot of caution. because the person who made this statement was not cross-examine.
a day for james holmes to enter a plea. let me get one detail here from jennifer. did james holmes say anything, did he have to answer any questions or anything like that? he did not. they did waive they have a right to a preliminary hearing5m if he was okay with waiving that, so his attorneys briefly spoke to him, he nodded, listened and then indicated to them that he was okay with that, and so then they spoke back. he didn t actually speak, he didn t say any words today. reporter: yeah, no plea and he actually didn t say anything in court. so there you go. jenna: interesting. all right thank you very much with that breaking news from colorado. we ll have more on this new. rick: let s talk about it with dan shurr who is a former prosecutor and chip merlin a criminal defense attorney. dan, let me start with you. i ve got to ask you if first as someone who does not have a law degree, 24 counts of first-degree murder there were 12 victims. that s two counts of murder for each victi
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procurement, slow. at the maddow blog we simultaneously corrected the record on the mackinac thing and solicited readers favorite mispronunciations of famous places. in michigan there s a town called short. you may think oh, charlotte, like north carolina. michiganders pronounce it charlotte. according to eagle lady 11, i grew up in colorado. we pronounce it colorado. blanch elizabeth tells us in part despite how the golden girls pronounce it, boca raton does not rhyme with baton. according to andrew, maryland is pronounced to rhyme with merlin. susan b. says pronounced about the same as merlin, but don t say that way if you aren t from
say that way if you aren t from merlin, or you will sound silly. if you live in kansas, this arkansas river are not pronounced that way. according to kathy, capitol of south dakota is pronounced pierre. a comment or said a small town peru is pronounced differently. one of the producers didn t believe it was true and kind of interrogated the person that answered the phone at the chamber of commerce in madison, iowa. that person assured her it is pronounced pee-ru. wd e af ofhehoha amu e