The only thing that the jury tells the judge is, we recommend life death by a vote of x versus y. Right, but they cant recommend death unless they find the aggravator, right . Well, no. No. As a matter of state law, thats not correct. They cant recommend death unless seven of them each believe that some aggravator is satisfied. All right. But the Florida Supreme Court and this is a this is another ring problem here. The Florida Supreme Court has recognized that where two aggravators are presented, it is impossible to know even if a simple majority agreed on a single aggravator. Well, thats a common feature, though, of jury deliberations. An aggravator is whether the murder is particularly heinous and it can be for for a number of factors. One, the victim is a juvenile, so maybe three jurors find that. Or an officer was also killed, or it was in the commission in the course of another felony. In a typical case, a finding that the murder was heinous, you have no idea whether the juror ju
I wanted to note. Number one, theres some photos of you with cigars, with cigar smoke. Long time cigar smoker . Theres the cigar picture right there. I like what i call ponies, peter. Small cigars. At one time i was smoking probably five or six cigars well, strike that. Three or four cigars a day. Now that changed to three or four cigars a week. Then finally i just said to heck with it. Part of the reason was the staff didnt like it. Some of my colleagues didnt like it. The chief of staff, i think, led the fight on that. What the heck . If it is annoying to them, i dont have to have a cigar in my mouth every day. Ive been free of cigar smoke probably in excess of five years. Congressman coble, youve worked on a couple of issues that may not strike your colleagues as positive, such as limiting congressional retirement, term limits, cola increases, being careful about cola increases. Have you gotten so pushback from your colleagues up here on capitol hill . When i came up here, i said i
The Unemployment Rate fell to 5 . This congress should pass a serious infrastructure plan and keep those jobs coming. That would make a difference. The pipeline would not have made a serious impact on those numbers and on the American Peoples prospects for the future. The pipeline would not lower gas prices for american consumers. In fact, gas prices have already been falling steadily. The National Average gas price is down to about . 77 over a year ago. It is down one dollar over two years ago. It is down one dollars twice seven cents over three years ago 1. 27 over three years ago. A gas stationnd selling gas for less than two dollars a gallon. Politics has been consumed over a debate on whether this pipeline would create jobs and lower gas prices, we have gone ahead and created jobs and lower gas prices. Third, shipping dirtier crude oil into our country would not increase Americas Energy security. Increased Americas Energy security is our strategy over the past several years to red
Prosecutors have to reconsider their cases all around the state. But for now, it appears 390 men and women on death row may never be executed. Justice sometimes work in very mysterious ways. Reporter at the state wants to pursue all of the executions, they would have to go to the Florida Supreme Court now but need a very High Standard to actually get those executions essentially approved. So coming up at 5 00, im talking to legislature about what they are doing to change the laws and at 6 00 looking at a case that could be affected here and what the family, the family of the victim feels about it reporting live in downtown orlando, steve barrett, channel 9 Eyewitness News. And the we talk to legal analyst about what it means for the 390 inmates who are now on death row. We asked him what it means for well get going through that with the interview we will have the latest in the next hour. We are in for another cold night there is a frost advisory in marion county. Lets get over to certi
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