misdemeanor charges in the sex assault of a 15-year-old girl just days before he graduated last year. but he was cleared of felony charges. anna werner is at the courthouse in concord, new hampshire. you say, madam foreperson, that the defendant, owen labrie, is guilty? yes. reporter: a stunned owen labrie began to cry as the first guilty verdict of read. as more followed, he sobbed and bent over the defense table. not guilty. reporter: the jury had acquitted him of more serious felony rape charges but found he did have sex with an underaged girl at the elite st. paul boarding school. the 16-year-old testified last week. reporter: labrie had denied it, saying the two had physical contact put he had stopped himself from going further. i thought to myself, you know, maybe we shouldn t do this. reporter: the trial sheds light on what some called a secret culture of sex traditions at the elite prep school where upper classmen engaged in what they called the senio
assault of a 15-year-old girl just days before he graduated last year. but he was cleared of felony charges. anna werner is at the courthouse in concord, new hampshire. you say, madam foreperson, that the defendant, owen labrie, is guilty? yes. reporter: a stunned owen labrie began to cry as the first guilty verdict of read. as more followed, he sobbed and bent over the defense table. not guilty. reporter: the jury had acquitted him of more serious felony rape charges but found he did have sex with an underaged boarding school. the 16-year-old testified last week. reporter: labrie had denied it, saying the two had physical contact put he had stopped himself from going further. i thought to myself, you know, maybe we shouldn t do this. reporter: the trial sheds light on what some called a secret culture of sex traditions at the elite prep school where upper classmen engaged in what they called the senior salute, where they would meet up with younger female st
labrie was convicted of misdemeanor charges in the sex assault of a 15-year-old girl just days before he graduated last year. but he was cleared of felony charges. anna werner is at the courthouse in concord, new hampshire. you say, madam foreperson, that the defendant, owen labrie, is guilty? yes. reporter: a stunned owen labrie began to cry as the first guilty verdict of read. as more followed, he sobbed and bent over the defense table. not guilty. reporter: the jury had acquitted him of more serious felony rape charges but found he did have sex with an underaged girl at the elite st. paul boarding school. the 16-year-old testified last week. reporter: labrie had denied it, saying the two had physical contact put he had stopped himself from going further. i thought to myself, you know, maybe we shouldn t do this. reporter: the trial sheds light on what some called a secret culture of sex traditions at the elite prep school where upper classmen engaged in wha
all the way to this blasting call has swept across most of north america it is so cold we are fortunate to be breaking freckles throughout the region causing massive disruption to flights and asking the right the authorities in many areas is simply telling people to stay. forecasters say when we get from the deep freeze is expected to come later this week. lake michigan is frozen solid. if it wasn t too cold to survive outdoors it would be possible to walk across it to canada temperatures of minus twenty seven degrees celsius an all time record. and it s minus fourteen when the windchill is factored in. this is true i hear it s unbelievably cold i have like no other business. this is just ridiculous. don t get it all not at all. yet much to like the moment you walk outside it s good for us. americans in the north and when a student baffling arctic conditions for days has a low pressure front christina sweeps across the country extremely cold air is blowing in from the arctic
rose: the united states constitution is over 225 years old. though our nation has transformed since the document was ratified, this text has remained largely unchanged. some scholars question relevance of the constitution in the modern day, others insist we must strictly adhere to the words of our founders, akhil amar suggests that we look beyond the text. he is the sterling professor at yale law school and a constitutional law scholar. his new book is called america s unwritten constitution, the precedence and principleses we live by. i am pleased to have him at this table. welcome. thank you. so what about this love affair with the constitution that you have, did it come from undergraduate z it come from law school, did it come from some sense of america and its it came from the day that i was born and because the day i m born in ann arbor, michigan, my parents are not u.s. citizens. they ever s students, they re, they were here to do their medical training. they