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Speaker 1: Hey there everybody. It is Wednesday, January seventh, and families

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Speaker 1: have been waiting for years for justice, for accountability after

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Speaker 1: that uvolda school massacre. But on day one of testimony

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Speaker 1: and the Uvaldi trial already a shocker and talk of

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Speaker 1: a mistrial, and with that, welcome to this episode of

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Speaker 1: Amy and TJ. Robes. We were getting set for weeks

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Speaker 1: of testimony, day one of testimony. I can't imagine what

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Speaker 1: these families are going through after all this. There is

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Speaker 1: real talk of a mistrial, yes there is. It's not

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Speaker 1: just speculation, this is for real.

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Speaker 2: The headlines are took an unexpected turn. And that is

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Speaker 2: an understatement, because yes, testimony was underway.

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Speaker 3: It was gutting.

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Speaker 2: It was frankly shocking to rehear and to relive some

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Speaker 2: of those moments, and then to have a teacher who

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Speaker 2: is up on the stand say something that upset the

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Speaker 2: defense so much that arguments ensued, and then they now

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Speaker 2: had to remove the jury that they won't even come

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Speaker 2: back into the courtroom until Thursday while the defense and

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Speaker 2: the prosecution try to hammer it out with the judge.

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Speaker 3: But yes, the defense has said they may ask for

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Speaker 3: a MISTRYNG.

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Speaker 1: Clear for what we're saying here, folks. On day one

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Speaker 1: of testimony in the trial, Day two of testimony was

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Speaker 1: canceled because there's a problem, and this is a really

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Speaker 1: big problem, a Brady violation. You might have even heard

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Speaker 1: of that. You hear it every now and again, even

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Speaker 1: if you can't recall what it is. But it's very

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Speaker 1: simple stuff. Hell, even in the movie My Cousin Vinnie,

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Speaker 1: they hit on this. The prosecution cannot withhold evidence that

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Speaker 1: could possibly help the defense, and it appears at this

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Speaker 1: point at least the defense is going to argue, you

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Speaker 1: all just ambushed us on day one of testimony, and

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Speaker 1: Rodes is hard to argue with the point they're making

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so this was a former third grade teacher. She

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Speaker 2: was the third grade teacher at rob Elementary School on

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Speaker 2: the day of the Uvaldi shooting. She testified that she

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Speaker 2: saw the gunman on the same side of the building,

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Speaker 2: in the exact same area where the officer who was

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Speaker 2: on trial, Adrian Gonzalez, was. The defense said, that is

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Speaker 2: a completely different statement than what you gave during a

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two investigation, something that she specifically said to

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Speaker 2: a Texas ranger. They say what she testified to in

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Speaker 2: court is not the same and a very big difference.

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Speaker 3: And of it obviously would be to the detriment of

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Speaker 3: their client. If what she's saying is true.

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Speaker 1: This is a huge no. No, this is a huge

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Speaker 1: problem because the defense has been preparing for months years

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Speaker 1: based on her official statements, which are official evidence in

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Speaker 1: the case. They've been preparing based on that. They show

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Speaker 1: up on day one of testimony in the trial and

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Speaker 1: they go, oops, actually it's not that, it's something else.

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Speaker 1: This is a very serious violation. The judge seemed a

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Speaker 1: little annoyed and put off by this. But folks, what

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Speaker 1: we're saying is today they are dedicating the day in

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Speaker 1: the court today to only trying to work this out road.

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Speaker 1: The problem here, right, they get declare mistrial, Sure, judge

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Speaker 1: hates to do that after all this, But Rose, what

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Speaker 1: if you go through what if he gets found guilty.

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Speaker 1: What's the first thing they're going to do appeal based

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Speaker 1: on this Brady violation?

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Speaker 3: Potential violations?

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Speaker 1: What do you do here? Rose? Think about those famili

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Speaker 1: and look, we should remind folks, full disclosure, not full disclosure.

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Speaker 1: Everybody knows you were there the day after that shooting,

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Speaker 1: took place. You and I were on the air together,

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Speaker 1: me and New York. You there. This is something from

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Speaker 1: day one. We've kept an eye on. This is something

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Speaker 1: from day I can't imagine what the family are going through.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because you know it's to have been there and

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Speaker 2: to have reported on it. I get emotional reading this

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Speaker 2: serious because to think, because we learned this and I look,

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Speaker 2: I don't this exact detail, but this certainly came out

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Speaker 2: in the opening statement from the prosecution yesterday when testimony began,

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Speaker 3: That officer Adrian Gonzalez was there on the scene before

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Speaker 3: the gunman entered the building.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you get over that one passed

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Speaker 3: I have chills from head to toe as a parent.

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Speaker 2: And look, we talked about at the time, we reported

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Speaker 2: when we were there on the scene that parents were

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Speaker 2: begging officers, trying to get into the building themselves, wanting

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Speaker 1: This is the most devastating detail I've heard in this

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Speaker 1: entire story is that before he went in and killed

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Speaker 1: into the buildings that you can't live with that, that's Abe.

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Speaker 2: It's it's it makes you feel gutted because when you

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Speaker 2: know that something could have been prevented, and the person

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Speaker 2: who was charged with that duty, who had a firearm,

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Speaker 2: who was trained on what to do in these types

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Speaker 2: of situations, and I understand in the moment it's very different.

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Speaker 2: It's scary, But the question is the responsibility. The whole

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Speaker 2: purpose of his position and his job was to protect

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Speaker 2: when he knew there was an active gunman, the prosecution

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Speaker 2: kept saying, effectively, Adrian stayed. Adrian radioed. Adrian basically gave

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Speaker 2: But he did nothing. He took zero action.

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Speaker 1: That's tough for Robes. Again, criminally, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: he faces, right, I don't know if he committed a crime,

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Speaker 1: what the law says about it. But Roges, that is

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Speaker 1: you said, scared, you said, and you know, in all

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Speaker 1: these cases, we always try to give a little grace

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Speaker 1: to the person on that side. So trying to find

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Speaker 1: some way to give grace to Adrian Gonzalez. And you

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Speaker 1: said he was scared. Possibly, that's my job, because I'm

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Speaker 1: a citizen. I can be scared and stand out there

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Speaker 1: as a citizen. You signed up to protect these people.

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Speaker 1: Signed it says to protect and serve on the side

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Speaker 1: of those cars. And a part of that is, yes,

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Speaker 1: possibly taking a bullet for a seven year old, that's

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Speaker 1: your job. And to see some of them explain and

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Speaker 1: some of the officer this is not us. These are

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Speaker 1: other officers who say no. The training is to go in.

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Speaker 1: You engage, even if you don't shoot and kill the shooter.

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Speaker 1: You get us a attention, get him to shoot at

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Speaker 1: you instead of elementary school kids.

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Speaker 3: The very least you distract him.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: A Texas ranger actually, to your exact point, testified yesterday

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Speaker 2: for the prosecution, and the prosecutor prosecutor asked him, are

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Speaker 2: there limitations about going into a shots fired active shooter situation?

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Speaker 2: Here is the exact quote from that Texas ranger. There

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Speaker 2: is not a limitation. I wouldn't say so. The rule

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Speaker 2: is to engage and to stop the killing.

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Speaker 3: Period.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what else to I don't know or

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Speaker 1: if this is and again Adrian Gonzalez, we don't know him,

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Speaker 1: not suggesting he's might be the best guy, a good

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Speaker 1: guy who made a really bad call based on whatever

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Speaker 1: he was going through, his emotions, his energy, his fear,

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Speaker 1: whatever was happening that caused him to freeze.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say it sounds like he was paralyzed

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Speaker 1: Fear in a moment that people called for his help.

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Speaker 1: That is a devastating ropes to think it is a

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Speaker 1: possibility that those nineteen didn't have to die. He beat

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Speaker 1: the shooter to the school.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they described where he was.

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Speaker 2: He was actually on duty at the high school, which

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Speaker 2: was nearby, and he heard over the radio a car crash, right,

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Speaker 2: so a massive car crash. That's how this all began.

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Speaker 2: The shooter crashed his white vehicle, and the funeral director

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Speaker 2: from the rob Elementary School, immediately starts calling nine one one, begging, begging,

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Speaker 2: please I can hear the shots. The officer arrived. They

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Speaker 2: actually have the time stance, I stamps. I believe the

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Speaker 2: crash happened around eleven thirty in the morning. Officer Gonzalez

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Speaker 3: Opportunity to go into the school itself.

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Speaker 2: And a teacher, well, the prosecutor testified that there was

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Speaker 2: a teacher who got up right up close to Officer

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Speaker 2: Gonzalez's face and said, basically, please, he's over there, Please

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Speaker 2: go get him, and was pointing Officer Gonzalez into the

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Speaker 2: what he was doing and said, please go get him.

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Speaker 2: And Adrian Gonzalez, according to the prosecutor, prosecutor did nothing

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Speaker 2: and it wasn't just a split second decision to do

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Speaker 2: nothing seven seven minutes. Imagine that an hour and seven

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Speaker 1: And Gonzalez is we should mention he's the first of two.

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Speaker 1: The other is the former school police chief. Actually that's

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Speaker 1: going to be facing trial as well. These details that

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Speaker 1: have been coming out of this case now we're going

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Speaker 1: to get more, but there is a real possibility people

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Speaker 1: that this trial won't continue this week. What is the

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Speaker 1: judge going. He doesn't want to declare mistrial robes, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they were. There's some deal they

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Speaker 1: discuss it. And what was the case is what the

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Speaker 1: judge is allowing the defense to interview the prosecutors about.

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Speaker 2: What they did, ye what they knew and when they

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Speaker 2: knew it in this testimony or this very important piece

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Speaker 2: of evidence and from the testimony of this teacher, when

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Speaker 2: did it change? When did they know about what she

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Speaker 2: on Monday, when they were seating a jury, they actually

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Speaker 2: had to dismiss more than one hundred jurors who admitted

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Speaker 2: and said I cannot be impartial.

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Speaker 1: Yea.

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Speaker 2: They said they had already formed opinions. Some of them

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Speaker 2: were teachers, some of them were husbands of teachers, people

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Speaker 2: who said, I already know that if my wife or

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Speaker 2: officers for not going in period.

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Speaker 3: End of story.

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Speaker 1: I'd admit I was surprised I got twelve.

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Speaker 2: So they actually even said it was pretty remarkable they

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Speaker 3: Quickly within one day.

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Speaker 2: But to have all those folks just walk out and say, nope,

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Speaker 2: I can't be impartial.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that I've ever seen that before.

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Speaker 1: Well, we had so many yes, the jury the way

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Speaker 1: deer right, this whole process that they go through, but

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Speaker 1: robes every once in a while, don't you Usually hear

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Speaker 1: jurors trying to make sure they I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say fool, but you want to sound like you're important,

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Speaker 1: like I can be impartial here and whatnot? They just

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Speaker 1: raising their hands. Nope, he's good. I know what I

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Speaker 1: would do, So you want me here. This is what's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to tell say that he's guilty.

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Speaker 1: I don't really I appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: I do too.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the defense actually appreciated it as well, because

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Speaker 2: I think they.

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Speaker 3: Had about four hundred plus jurors to go through.

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Speaker 2: But if a quarter of them immediately just raise their

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Speaker 2: Robes, I hear you, and the jury is hearing the

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Speaker 3: The defense can say that he's not responsible.

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Speaker 2: They said there's an animal involved in the situation, a monster,

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Speaker 2: But I don't think that is going to That didn't

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Speaker 1: Hey, how about that question if the shooter had lived,

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Speaker 2: I think so because it's so egregious, It was so

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Speaker 1: It sounds like a strong and such an offensive word, coward.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what else to say. Because

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Oh, and they do them regularly, right, They do refresher

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Speaker 2: The defense is saying that he didn't have all the

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Speaker 3: When he was there and saw it and hurt it.

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Speaker 1: Any officer in the country, I will ask this country

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Speaker 2: And wait for seventy seven minutes and again other officers.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure when the other officers arrive, but there

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Speaker 2: They're testifying and they will continue to, I'm sure, bring

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Speaker 1: Do you remember what did they have to physically keep

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Speaker 2: They were tackling parents who were trying to get past

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Speaker 1: This is the thing. This is Texas. And if a

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Speaker 3: I agree. I just got chills thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: I walked in that school. You would have walked in

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Speaker 2: You would have to tackle me, you would have to

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna save your kid, but you can't go

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Speaker 2: You gotta be fucking no way. So we mentioned that

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Speaker 2: This was just in twenty twenty three, so just two

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Speaker 2: was a Broward County Sheriff's deputy. He was charged with

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Speaker 1: See I'm sorry I didn't look into it enough. But

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Speaker 1: what was the argument? Like was the defense arguing there? Yep.

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Speaker 2: His lawyers argued that his role as an armed school

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Speaker 3: The shooting was muddled by poor communication.

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Speaker 2: So it seems as though they're doing or using this

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Speaker 2: It was confusing, he didn't have all the information he needed.

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Speaker 2: There was confusing communication. Do you the guy break yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: So it worked in Parkland and I think they're hoping

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Speaker 2: is going to be a very tall order for them

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Speaker 3: Otherwise.

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Speaker 1: We are going to keep an eye on this one.

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Speaker 1: We will certainly hop back on what time is their

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Speaker 2: One pm local time, So have a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a later start today to hear these arguments.

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Speaker 1: All right, We'll keep an eye on this one, folks.

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