I have jean casarez standing by and im speaking to the control room. Let me know if jean is ready. I have Danny Cevallos who has just been seated who can sort of walk us through these different counts. Danny, i know that the jury deliberated for 7 1 2 hours. He was accused of nine counts related to this alleged rape. As we walk through some of these counts and details, if you have kids in the room, some of these counts are pretty graphic in nature, just to explain what has happened here. Tell me about this verdict. I am not surprised that if he was convicted he would be convicted of three counts or whatever counts there were of misdemeanor Sexual Assault. Because the law in New Hampshire can be tricky, as with all states when it comes to Sexual Assault cases. With the misdemeanor Sexual Assault, it did not matter whether or not there was consent. The mere fact that there was sex, given their ages, would have been a guilty verdict on the misdemeanor. But consent would have been a defense to the aggravated felony charges. So thats why early on the defense was not consent but that we did not have sex. The defense of no sex was the only defense that could have resulted in a not guilty as to each of the charges. Im looking at jean casarez. Were doing this quickly and on the fly. Appreciate you sitting down. Jean casarez has just joined us. Three felony counts of aggravated sex assault. One felony for using Online Service to lure the accuser. Three misdemeanor sex assault charges, another misdemeanor for Sexual Assault and another for endangerment of a child. Bottom line, what does this tell you . That he was not convicted of the most serious felonies, the aggravated felonious Sexual Assault, the ones that can be 20 years per count. Not convicted of that. He has a seconddegree felony, which under New Hampshire law, its 3 1 2 to 7 years so this is prison time here. It is. This is very serious and you saw his reaction. This is a young man that had been accepted to harvard. Im told these are live pictures within the courtroom. And he broke down, when that first guilty count was read, he broke down. He sees the severity of this, the seriousness of this, a young man going to Divinity School but Harvard University had accepted him and now he is a convicted felon. Lets back up. Just in case people havent been following this so closely, this is a case of someone at this extraordinary Prestigious School in New Hampshire where apparently it was a tradition to and im using quotes, this is how they spoke, score in the senior salute, see how many young women n. This case, if she was a then 15yearold, he could be with. And so there was how many young women these young men had been this. Thats what this was all. It was all about that. The defense began their Closing Argument really an assault on the school, that the school became the parents of these kids as they boarded there and the school allowed this to happen. The school was not on trial. This one young man that youre looking at on your screen was on trial. But its also significant that they found him not guilty of the most serious charges, the aggravated felonious Sexual Assault, because an element of that was lack of consent. That was an element of the most serious crimes that they found him not guilty of. So that speaks volumes also in the sense of her story. Jump in on that. Heres how a jury might have reached that result, although it feels a little inconsistent. As i said before, the aggravated fe felonies were not based on the victim at all. Because he fell within that fouryear safe harbor. The miss deneen nor, on the other hand, he fell exactly within the range of years between the victim and the defendant that you could be convicted of the misdemeanor. So i was not surprised that the misdemeanor conviction would happen. When it came to the aggravated felonies, consent would set that defendant free. The jurors simply couldnt agree or just decided that there was some element of consent there that did not merit a felony conviction. But these are confusing Sexual Assault laws as they can commonly be in all of the states because there are two defenses involved. There is either no sex or there was sex and it was was con section assume and then you have the complexity of the ages which varied so drastically from state to state when you have a young defendant and young victim. So heres the one thing we can definitively say. This jury believed that there was sex. They believed that there was sex because that was in question. That was an element of the guilty convictions, as danny is saying. His story was that there was not. So they, at least in part, did not believe his testimony. Let me jump in. Ive just been handed now weve got the statement from the rape victim and her family passed along by the spokesperson. This is just part of a statement that ill read to you whats been highlighted for me. We still feel betrayed that st. Paul school allowed and fostered a toxic culture that left our daughter and other students at risk to sexual violence. We trusted the school to pro tenth her. It failed us. We continue to feel anger and disappointment for the lack of character and integrity that the young man of this school showed. Saying that these young men should bear the shame of these crimes along with owen la brie. It was our young daughter who took the stand and requested justice. We a we a we a we admire her bravery which made this measure of justice possible today. Measure of justice. Thats a very interesting comment. You know, another charge that was before the jury was simple assault. The unprivileged consent to bite her chest. They found him not guilty on that. And remember, there was testimony and he had admitted that he did that. Key word, unprivileged. In other words, she consented. So the jury may have believed that she consented to him doing that. Its really a divided verdict, just as danny is saying. They believed bits and pieces of both. When you were talking about prison time for him, you were saying that could range, what, between 3 1 2 to 7 . 3 1 2 to 8 is the class b felony of using a computer to illicit and lure. So can he just turn around and appeal what has happened today . Hell appeal they will file a directed appeal based on any number of problems that happened during the trial. But, again, that computer enticement is not again, not a surprise because its pretty clear that a computer was used. This was the facebook message . Yeah. Email, facebook message, sending anything over the computer as you see a lot in child sex crimes, those are very easy elements to make up. After all, the proof is in the electronic pudding. It is right there. All you need to do is get a subpoena for the records and that can be easily satisfied. If thats the only thing he was convicted of i cant stress this enough, all require the consent and not based on the age of the victim. That means on some level the jury believed there was some consensual activity. Because if they felt it was not consensual you can read the statute and the language of the statute, the aggravated felonies requires the absence of consent, one by surprise and the other based on different kinds of sexual contact. They all have that element of absent of consent. And they were not guilty on those. This was a predominantly male jury, was it not . And look at the message that this jury is sending not only to this defendant but to the school, to st. Pauls in their community, that for generations has had this senior salute and the school, from my understanding, has stayed silent, really, as this has gone on. Now they are going to have to talk about this. Well, im sure the school, i imagine, will have a statement in the wake of what happened. For now, jean casarez, Danny Cevallos, thank you, on this case at this prestigious prep school in New Hampshire. Thank you so much. Coming up here on cnn, charges dismissed, Major Development out of North Carolina in the case of his wife Police Officer who went on trial for the shooting death of an unarmed black man a week after a jury was dead locked and led to a mistrial, the prosecutor stating there will not be a retrial of randall kerrick. Also, were learning more about the intentions of a killer who murdered two young journalists live on television this week. Investigators telling cnn that the gunman here did indeed have a getaway plans also, new details in his apartment across from the tv station. Well be right back. When heartburn comes creeping up on you. Fight back with relief so smooth and fast. Tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. 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Investigators telling cnn Vester Flanagan had a getaway plan in a car, extra ammunition, disguises. He was not driving aimlessly. He had a specific destination in mind before he was caught by police and turned the gun on himself. Although investigators are not saying where he was headed, we heard from Governor Terry mcauliffe speaking outside of the tv station wdbj just a short time ago. As we heard today, there was more ammunition in the car, he had more selfaddressed envelopes. So, you know, we clearly cant get into his mind and we cant find out exactly what he was planning to do but obviously there were some bad intentions and im just thankful our Law Enforcement did in a manner that nobody else was hurt. We are also learning that flanagan may have inadvertently helped police pinpoint his location because after killing Alison Parker and adam ward sent a text message that he had, quote, done something stupid and that friend may have given the police a cell phone number to track him. You see around here, really nothing on the walls, heres what you do see, a lot of him, refrigerator plastered with photos from his apparent modeling days, from his days as an onair person at tv stations, the apparent just blocks away from the offices of our cnn affiliate wdbj where he once worked. I can also tell you this today, Funeral Plans are set for one of the victims, a service for the cameraman, adam ward, will be held next tuesday at the First Baptist church of roanoke. Let me go to the pastor there in salem. Im sorry for the loss in your community. Thank you, brooke. I appreciate you having me on today. Ive heard that youve been having prayer vigils. We havent heard from the family from adam ward. I want to ask you about adam. You know, it was his fiancee sitting in the control room when he was murdered and you spoke to adams best friend katie last night and she talked to adam the day before he was killed. What about that conversation would you mind sharing with us, sir . Brooke, southwest virginia, a very closeknit family. Immediately i started getting the calls wednesday morning and one of those calls was from katies dad, who is my cameraman on saturday morning. He said, katie was his best friend and shes really hurting right now and i officiated her wedding two years ago and i was there as an announcer. I reached out to katie last night, talked with her and asked her specifically, you know, what is helping you heal through this process, what are you holding onto and the first thing she told me, brooke, was prayer. She quoted c. S. Lewis. I pray because i cant help myself. I pray because im helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time waking and asleep. It does not change god but prayer changes me. And so thats my goal, to come out into this community and with the powerful tool of prayer to offer hope to all those hurting today. You mentioned, pastor mccracken, that you met adam at katies wedding. I heard he was a proud Virginia Tech hokie. What do you remember about him . That katie was talking about him, all of the friends of katie, she walked me around and introduced me to everybody and so i was overwhelmed that day but everybody around was just smiling just like adam and happy and joyful. You know, adam and alison and vicki and all of these people have closeknits to our congregation, in addition to adam and miss katie being best friends, and people have been raving about what kind of person adam was. Katie said he was the personification of christianity, always happy, always joyful. I think that what my endeavor through all of this and goal through all of this is to get the church out of the building. When you look at the great commission, first word is go in matthew 28 16 and i think weve replaced the word go with come. The buildings are getting bigger, staff is getting bigger. I want to get back to go and thats what we have done as a church. Weve come out to this community and we have ministered and were bringing the power of prayer, front page news is one of my best friends. His name is joil akers, front page. Two years ago he was in the hospital for two months. The doctors gave him 5 chance to live and was going to give up on him. We went, prayed for him, he was first in line on wednesday to pray for all of these families because he believes in the power of prayer. I believe in the power of prayer. Pastor, people will be looking to you certainly on sunday morning. Its a community that has been coming together and will seek out that message from you. Thank you so much, pastor tom mccracken. And i know so many of you are reaching out wondering how you can help the people in roanoke, the victims of the tragic murders, Alison Parker and adam ward. Go to cnn. Com slach impact for ways that you can help. Next, Hillary Clinton speaking today saying that the republicans have gone from the party of lincoln to the party of trump. 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