been granted clemency, the judge says he will show mercy to the now 30-year-old by releasing her in august. she was convicted of killing a man would pick her up for trafficking in 2004. she was 16 years old at the time. her lawyers say she was a sex trafficking victim and feared for her life. he was twice the toast of hollywood, tonight kevin spacey is looking at the possibility of serious prison time after pleading not guilty to a charge of felony indecent assault and battery. he is accused of groping a young man at a bar and 2016. today he made a reluctant appearance at court, jackie hamrick was there. after kevin spacey sat in a private plane at the nantucket runway. a district court of the academy award winner faced throngs of reporters and the
what the jury never heard was the story of brown s life up to that point. born to a mother who drank every day of her pregnancy, the repeated rapes, emotional and physical abuse at the hands of a 24-year-old drug dealer and pimp who forced brown into prostitution. today 13 years into a life sentence in tennessee brown has earned an associate s degree and is described as supporters as a model prisoner. she won t be eligible for parole until she s at least 67 years old which supporters, including one of the prosecutors responsible for keeping her in prison, who later became her professor, says is too high a price to pay for a reckless decision made by a sex trafficking victim when she was under age. joining me now is cyntoria brown s attorney charles bones. let s talk about the original trial. why is it that the jury was not allowed to hear about this young woman s life? there s a story in the national scene, very lengthy. we ll put it on our social
all are standing by joe gliniewicz s wife and sons who remembered him at a memorial on wednesday night. joe was my best friend and my world. my hero. the love of my life for the last 26 1/2 years. my world got a little bit smaller with his passing. he will truly be missed by all of us. thank you, everybody. ryan young, cnn, fox lake, illinois. ahead here on cnn newsroom, a former sex trafficking victim gets a new lease on life. see how a catering company is helping to lift her up. it s a cnn preem project special report.
thing happening, we ought to herald it and get it done. john cornyn, they have a measure that will allow us to divert all of these people back and adjudicate the ones that have a legitimate claim that they re a sex trafficking victim good luck with that, i only have 30 seconds, do you believe the republicans will capitalize on this? will this hurt the democrats? the failure of the president s leadership on this will hurt him, in part because it is mixed up with a bunch of other things, they re looking at the world, economy not good, the president s leadership on the border is terrible. i don t understand why he didn t go to the border. even the hispanic-americans say that. you are a wimp when it comes to border control if you go to south texas and talk to latinos in south texas. it is their ranches, their communities, hospitals, social services that have been devastated by this. karl rove, everybody, up
thing happening, we ought to herald it and get it done. john cornyn, they have a measure that will allow us to divert all of these people back and adjudicate the ones that have a legitimate claim that they re a sex trafficking victim good luck with that, i only have 30 seconds, do you believe the republicans will capitalize on this? will this hurt the democrats? the failure of the president s leadership on this will hurt him, in part because it is mixed up with a bunch of other things, they re looking at the world, economy not good, the president s leadership on the border is terrible. i don t understand why he didn t go to the border. even the hispanic-americans say that. you are a wimp when it comes to border control if you go to south texas and talk to latinos in south texas. it is their ranches, their communities, hospitals, social services that have been devastated by this. karl rove, everybody, up