killing 14 students and three staff members at marjorie stone douglas high school. kerry, what do we know at this hour? reporter: well, the families of the victims who have been enduring this really difficult penalty phase where all the information of every minute of every second of what happened have been notified by the court that the jury of 12 has now reached a decision on what the sentence will be and we expect that sentence will be delivered here at about 10:30. family members have been notified to be ready to go in the courtroom and sit where many of them have been sitting for the last four months. these are the pictures of the 17 victims. the students as well as the staff members who were massacred four years ago. it has been an extremely long journey for what they hope will be some sense of justice. the jury needs to be unanimous. if they are unanimous, it is a decision for death, then it will be up to the death to go forward with that as the actual sentence, but i
For the day about half an hour ago. Thats good, right to cnns Brynn Gingras in new yorks is outside the court. Brynn, what are you hearing . Why are they still in session there . Still trying to find that jury, jake, you know, at the beginning of the day, it was unclear if there was going to be a single juror seated. And now by today, at this moment, there are six that are seeded, included putting a fourperson so the process is continuing at this very hour. Some of the details about the six people that we know about so far. Of course, they remain anonymous, but one is originally from ireland, that person is already declared The Foreperson when this case goes to trial, theres an and khaliji nurse. Theres a corporate lawyer, theres one person who actually told the courtroom that he found trump fascinating. Theres another person who says that they appreciate trumps candor but didnt really have Strong Political views all different ages, marriage, not married, Group Ofeople that are rht of,
reporter, actually deliberate and vote. then they inform the foreperson, informs the prosecutor what happened, and if there is a true bill, that is, if they voted yes, the foreperson signs several copies. the foreperson and the representative of the government goes to the judge and they do what s called a hand-up, and he hand the physical copies of the indictment to the judge. and that s how the sort of indictment gets to the court and gets filed. sometimes that s under seal and sometimes it s not under seal. all right. you have some reporting? we are hearing that the foreperson is back in the magistrate judge s office. that is definitely interesting. that s striking. it reflects the activity we have been following all day here. back into the courtroom. and so we can t say what that leads to, but we can say that they are still at work and we are watching for that. so, i mean, we can discuss right now how that works. basically, the foreperson is not
he didn t think georgian law would allow it. this marks the third known recording of the former president urging officials to push election lies. harry lipman is a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general and also host of the talking feds podcast. this is new to us, obviously, the special grand jury had already heard this. our question to you is, what impact do you think yet another piece of video of audio has on fani willis decision on whether or not she will ultimately issue an indictment? yeah, it was one of the most intriguing aspects if you remember, of the emily cores, the foreperson s sort of pr tour. she said there were multiple calls. and everyone was struck. we knew about raffensperger, what are the others? and we also now know about a pressure campaign as with rol rolston, as with the governor. maybe it was by phone, maybe it wasn t. what does it do to fani willis?
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