on because unfortunately i heard rumors that there werece e that they would have accepted a bribe. jon: yeah, her family says they were told if you pay off the judge this will all go away. they offered $5,000, fairly common in mexico, but it was refused. faith? it s a nightmare. so her family is doing the right thing by going to the media because that is what you have to do in a case like this, when your hands are tied, you re in another country, this is place where you don t want to get arrested because the criminal justice system is very different. jon: we ll keep an eye on this case and let our viewers know what happens. esther panitche, faith jenkins, thank you both. we ll be right the great outdoors.
the mexican police stop the bus. order everybody off. they go on board and then they come off and say, oh, we found 12 pounds of marijuana under your bus seat. you must be guilty. if those facts happened in the u.s. jon, she would never be arrested because we don t have presumption in the u.s. where if drugs are found in the vicinity of someone with a person who is closest to those drugs is automatically attributed to them. so it wouldn t happen here. and so, yes, i agree with you, the evidence is very thin. however for whatever reason they have chosen to arrest her. her family did the right thing they contacted the state department in mexico. but the only thing they can do is help provider had with a list of attorneys. they can t get involved in the due process system. so it is really up to the lawyers in mexico and the judge in deciding how to proceed with this case. it is simply outrageous to keep this woman locked up in mexico while they re investigating these ridiculous charges.
jon: an arizona mother of seven jailed in mexico now is back in court today. yannira maldonado arrested a week ago. she was accused of smuggling 12 pounds marijuana from mexico into the u.s. or at least attempting to do so. her family says this is all one big mistake and she is innocent. a mexican judge is expected to decide by this friday whether or not to dismiss the charges against her, or move forward with a trial. let s turn to our legal panel. faith jenkins, a former prosecutor. esther panitche is a criminal defense attorney. faith, reading what happened here, the evidence, i mean from a prosecution standpoint in this country, the evidence against her seems mighty thin. she is on a bus with her husband headed back into the united states.
she was only 14 then. she has never been honest with us ever since then. jenna: now jodi arias is even turning to twitter to weigh in on her own trial, at times taking aim at prosecutor. for example, one tweet reading, quote, hmmm, anger management problems anyone? bring in our legal panel. esther panitche criminal defense attorney and tom can any of. former prosecutor. laughing at this type of thing. according to reports she has a friend she calls at night and that friend puts her tweets on her twitter account, not verified twitter account by twitter.com i look for. esther, this allowed, so one on trial can, should do? well, it is two different questions. whether she can do it, yes. she can do it. she is not with her cell phone. someone doing it at her behalf or allegedly doing it
at her behest. unless the jail wants to cut off all communications and phone calls there is nothing she is doing is illegal. whether she should do it is whole another story. jenna: what do you think?. no, i don t think she should. juan martinez could subpoena the person writing these tweets and ask them if these are in fact comments she has made? and can impeach her even though she is not on the stand anymore. present this to the jury, she is mocking the system. that is what a lot of these tweets seem to be. jenna: tom, one. tweets we grabbed, she is talking about someone. this is the quote. he who tries to establish his point by yelling shows his reasoning is weak. there is lot of different things like this. she also takes aim at television hosts. we re not included on that we should mention. but jurors here are not see questionstered. sequestered. they re not supposed to read some of this media. what risk could this impose for the trial and what is the impact? i agree with esth