Jeremy Rosenthal - Legal Wednesday

JEREMY ROSENTHAL takes a look at some of the legal stories making headlines in this weekly segment:

TOPIC 1- THE DAUGHTERS OF MALCOM X ARE SUING THE FBI, THE CIA AND THE NYPD FOR $100 MILLION OVER HIS 1965 ASSASSINATION.

Three daughters of Malcolm X have accused the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others in a $100 million lawsuit Friday of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.  In the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, the daughters — along with the Malcolm X estate — claimed that the agencies were aware of and were involved in the assassination plot and failed to stop the killing.  At a morning news conference, attorney Ben Crump stood with family members as he described the lawsuit, saying he hoped federal and city officials would read it “and learn all the dastardly deeds that were done by their predecessors and try to right these historic wrongs.”

TOPIC 2- TEXAS HIGH COURT SAYS EXECUTION IN ‘SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME’ CASE CAN’T BE HALTED BY LAWMAKER SUBPOENA

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a legislative subpoena cannot stop an execution after Republican and Democratic lawmakers who say Robert Roberson is innocent used the novel maneuver to pause his execution at the last minute.   The ruling clears the way for Roberson’s execution to move forward, weeks after a bipartisan group of state House lawmakers bought him more time by subpoenaing Roberson as he waited to be taken to the nation’s busiest death chamber.  Roberson was sentenced to death in 2003 for killing his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis. He would be the first person in the United States to be executed over a conviction tied to “shaken baby syndrome,” a diagnosis that has been questioned by some medical experts.

TOPIC 3- BRYAN KOHBERGER'S DEFENSE REVEALS ALLEGED DETAILS FROM NIGHT OF ARREST AT PARENT'S PENNSYLVANIA HOME

There are new developments in the Idaho college murders case as defense attorneys are challenging key evidence that they say was improperly obtained by police, including search warrants and DNA.  New court filings from Bryan Kohberger's defense team depict a chaotic night when the former PhD student was arrested at his parent's home in the Pennsylvania Poconos.  His lawyers claim that during the raid, law enforcement broke the front door of the home, shattered the sliding glass door of the basement and held the entire family at gunpoint. They also allege that while Kohberger was "zip tied at his hands and surrounded by police at gun point," he "made statements to his arresting officers," despite "not having his rights read to him."

 

We also chat about the Laken Riley trail in Georgia