Transcripts for CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield 201402

Transcripts for CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield 20140228 17:16:00

generally, that won't come in. >> danny, what happens with these different jurisdictions, working separately and keeping information to themselves or are they saying we've got the same guy, we're all working on it, let's try and share resources and all work towards a conviction, and to that end why don't you throw in who gets first crack at him. >> i have to expect a little jurisdictional battle, because they have an equal right to him and may be dispute as to who gets first crack, as you say. as to prior bad acts, this is a tricky issue. our rules of evidence say you can't admit prior bad acts to show somebody did a bad thing. but my evidence professor will be very proud of me for remembering that the important thing is what is the purpose that you're showing these things. if they have another purpose other than, hey, this is -- this is the guy who did the prior bad thing, for example, it shows his identity, or his motive or some other reason, then you can find another way to get that evidence in, and a creative prosecutor can do that. >> i think a judge will let you and many times they won't. former colleague, jack ford, law

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