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below zero, minneapolis, chicago and des moines on thursday morning. the core of that cold gets here in the northeast on friday. david? rob marciano with us tonight. rob, thank you. next this evening, the fate of former movie mogul harvey weinstein is now in the hands of twice in the first few hours of deliberations, they sent questions to the judge, asking for the legal definition of the charges and for clarification, asking how to navigate complicated charging instructions. weinstein is accused of raping one woman and sexually assaulting another. he says any sexual encounters were consensual. if convicted, weinstein could face life in prison. and the boy scouts of america have filed for bankruptcy protection, as they face thousands of potential sex abuse lawsuits. the plan including a possible sale of campgrounds and hiking trails would help create a victim s compensation trust for payouts that could reach more than a billion dollars. in the meantime, scouting programs for thei
evidence it was anything other than premeditation. you can t as a prosecutor give them options, you have to go this happened, and they did. judge napolitano i heard in the charging instructions, he said you have to convict her on the highest charge for which there is evidence. and i m paraphrasing. he said if you think it s premeditated you have to convict her on that, not convict heavy on something less because it will make you feel good. that is not the law neverry case in the union. and when i heard that charge i thought it was wrong, he is taking away from the jury the discretion they should have. the government almost always overcharges and expects a conviction on something less. but the manner in which the charges were framed, the indictment, and the manner the law was explained by the judge, the jury had no option to say it
mother concerned. you know, both cindy and george anthony say they were deceived by their daughter all these weeks before they knew caylee was missing. what the defense has to do is counter the parents side of the story. how do they go about doing that? that s part of the problem i have with bay easy sbaez s side. one of the things you want to be careful of as a defense attorney is not commit too much or promise too much in your opening statement. one of the wonderful things about being a defendant many our system is the burden lies exclusively with the prosecution and the judge is going to tell the jury if he hasn t already, he ll tell them in his charging instructions that the defense doesn t have to do anything. the burden rests with the prosecution. when baez gets up there and says this is how it happened, how