displayed before this jury and it is all over tonight in stephenville, texas. and richard gabriel is a trial consultant, and you say, richard, that jurors have their own yardstick in terms of the mental illness and in coming to a verdict when koimts to mental illness. can you explain that to us? well what happens is that all of the experts in the world can get up on the witness stand and talk about the tests prove but the truth is that it is what they feel that insanity means for them. the people they have known, and the veterans they have known that have come home, and they have to ultimately compare one of the yardsticks they have is that, well, if anybody is entitled to ptsd chris kyle is but this guy never saw combat. and so they take the pieces, to say, what is insanity? jibbering insane and obviously, the mental health officials can
casey anthony case, which i also write about the book. it s not just cable news but the social media because people are not just responding and watching and listening. but they re participating. they re tweeting, facebooking, actually sort of expressing opinions as they re watching the trial. so it becomes an interactive experience and that s why i think also when they get a verdict comes down, which they don t particularly think is the right one, you get so much outrage. so our viewers know, people that haven t read your book, you worked with o.j. simpson team and the casey anthony team? worked with the o.j. simpson team and the casey anthony team on the defense side in both cases, yes. tell us a little bit your role on each. well, as a trial consultant, what you re trying to do is you re trying to give your client the best listening, you re trying to help them in the jury selection process to choose not only the most neutral jurors but let s face it best jurors, jurorers th
he is the suspect in a double stabbing that wounded a woman and killed a teenager. the cost to taxpayers, $125 per day. dr. douglas keen is a trial consultant and joey jackson is an attorney and former prosecutor. they join us for a fair and balanced debate. good morning, gentlemen. good morning. dr. keen, let me start with you, so this defendant s attorney believed that seeing swastika tattoos might prejudice the jury. he s probably right about that. why is it the court s responsibility and, therefore, the taxpayers responsibility to protect this defendant from himself? i think really, what we need to think about isn t so much the defendant but the jurors themselves. what he has done is actually make their very difficult job a little bit easier. because one of the things that he s going to be instructing them to do is to listen very carefully to the evidence and base all of their opinions and conclusions on the evidence itself. and what we re looking at here is a man whose neck