If the Los Angeles Lakers achieve their goal of an NBA title, they ll need to do something no other team in NBA history has done. The Lakers 110-99 loss to the Denver Nuggets Wednesday night may have sealed their fate.
lovely prayed as she made her way to carbondale one more time. driving the six hours from chicago, pass the woods where her son had died. at the court has, she sat in her usual spot. but something seemed odd here. gaege listen in a jumpsuit. and i asked the prosecutor, why is he in street clothes? where are his handcuffs? and he said, i don t know. i have to figure out. then she says, the judge issued a stern warning to the two families. i want to warn you, one side of this courtroom is going to be very upset. if any of you cannot handle this, you need to leave the room right now. lovely assumed he meant gaege s family, but she was wrong. everybody in the courtroom was shocked. so, i ve been doing this over 30 years and it was the first time i ve ever had this happen. rather than sentencing gaege, the judge threw out the verdict and ordered a new trial. he ruled that the evidence had been sufficient to convict gaege, but the wording in the indictment might have confuse th
await for the verdict. i want to go to cnn contributor jill dougherty. she is former cnn moscow bureau chief. jill, so many things to talk to you about. first of all, i just want to mention just the imagery of what we re seeing. it s so striking for people. we have covered so many trials here in the u.s., and we are used to seeing a defendant in street clothes in a courtroom, and this is russia. this is not the u.s. this is not a western democracy. and so what we see is somebody trying to defend herself while in prison garb behind bars. yes. and that is for americans and probably for some europeans, that s pretty shocking because a person in a cage, you know, looks frightening. and don t forget she s extremely tall, so she has to lean over a lot of the time. you know, there are a lot of