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This is Nandle on the law, marginal legal advice, where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

Oh, President Donald Trump's story, man, you never get these.

Well, the president has now said, he's announced that the administration will seek the death penalty in all murder cases in Washington.

Now, there are all kinds of issues.

Now, keep in mind, Washington, Washington, D.C. is a very strange jurisdiction

because it is both controlled by local authorities, the local police, as well as the feds. They have

jurisdiction because of how weird Washington, D.C. fits into the national picture.

It's not a state. It is a city, but controlled by the feds because it doesn't belong to any state.

So, the president said, and I'm going to quote, anybody murders something in the capital, capital punishment.

Capital, capital punishment.

If someone kills someone in the capital,

we're going to be seeking the death penalty. And this was at a meeting with cabinet members,

and it happened last week. And he didn't outline any specifics, but called capital punishment

a very strong preventive measure. And we're going to have to make our own decisions.

We have no choice. Well, the problem with the death penalty, it's not that easy. Now,

convicting someone of a crime, even murder, assuming that there is enough evidence,

okay, that can be done fairly easily. Now, asking the jury,

in this case it would be a jury, to then put the defendant, now the convict, the convicted person

to death is a whole different animal. That just doesn't fly very quickly. And jurors have historically

not been convinced to impose a capital punishment in D.C. after they have voted unanimously

to convict. And so the president's saying that, it's tough. It is tough. California,

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