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an attorney in connecticut has withdrawn its request to seal in this state for a
hundred million dollars in the wake of the sandy hook school shooting this
attorney represents the family this the six-year-old coral who witnessed and
survived the shooting just from a couple weeks ago he says the state failed to
take steps to protect the children from farm he is
earning pinsky his would i've intense heat is with us this morning
forgive me i had two different versions of your first name perfectly fair miss
ciara
the morning
on the link is for sensitive skin with regard to this young girl
uh... what what what is the family telling you why the latter state of
connecticut
well that's not really did decision in the legally it is technically the truth
is that it's the five th legal strategy
or not only going after the state of connecticut
but what we had to do to get the state connective was we had a file request for
permission to soothe and you can even to sue them
that's the law internet in many other states
so we filed in that we got new evidence coming in plus we have all this backlash
of they intense nervousness
so we've withdraw it
but we've reserved all rights to bring it again within the next year let's talk
about a little bit about the backlash and john and i were both in your town a
couple weeks ago stb tell the story never covered terry tenuous were are out
there right now i'm managing justice so
recent after what's happened to these these two young people
on there that you have gotten quite a bit of backlash wide continue if if you
sell
will choose to do so
well them
it's a natural reaction to get that back by so i know that
but on the other hand
when idea called i have to save the evidence thank you wait for the attorney
general to get their evidence for the please to get their evidence as a lawyer
i'm looking for different evidence that they are
so i had in the winter relief
and that was not made clear to the public because there's so much of the
five of disaster
so i did was doing my job and i'm still doing it and i've got a year to file the
request of quick what kind of backlash re talking about what did the people of
new town had to say about your suit i didn't have any problem with the people
back to newtown even though i'm sure there was but out of three hundred forty
million people in this country is that
you're gonna have all kinds of people including some crazy people who are just
gonna start issuing death threats left him right
and also you have a lot of people are gonna scream the usual epithets po
greedy lawyer olaf
well he he said in the most recent holders and what's your response to that
that seems like that seems like the obvious question
well dislike u
wonderful people in the media get your share
you know what
i have to just hold my head down or up and go forward uh... but that's really a
sideshow reading you believed at the state of connecticut may have legal
responsibility in some way for for what happened
and there may be others have legal responsibility what waivers that climb
on that well
the easy answer which is
i'll start with that and give you a c_-one
anyway tom the easy answer is
what this shouldn't happen
uh... a crazy young gunman should be able walk into a school start doing this
over and over and over
now the police got there in three minutes let's assume that's true
okay that's wonderful but you know
there loads of security devices in cameras
and protections that can stop this
waverly isn't three minutes i'd just so i mean i'm not strongly that the
principal she could just installed as a security system you can walk in a school
after nine thirty in the morning and he basically shocked group at last to get
it
which is supposed to be bullet-proof glass
military action is on so that shouldn't happen but you have a legal case to
prove writing for you determine the comes importance foreseeable was this a
foreseeable incident that's that's the standard for negligence in civil suit
can you tell me at this young man mentally disturbed possibly millie star
taking weapons into the school in shooting twenty kids was foreseeable
that's on
that's uh... the fierce question i could ask for andrew straight up the answer is
it had to be assumed that this was going to happen eventually somewhere into i
cannot tell you for sure at this point i can tell you beyond a reasonable doubt
which is not the standard but i can tell you beyond a reasonable doubt that this
would have happened or should have happened or they should have known but
my job now is to follow the evidence that comes in i have to follow act
authenticated i have to make sure it's credible and then i have to follow it
as the evidence shows that there's no case i don't bring a case
but i have to try to get the evidence and i have to
morning that and i'll make this short
morning that my mission now is to stop this from happening again
now i know it's going to happen we all know that we don't want a minute but i
have not
but nobody hurt him but i know it's coming
i know i can never stop we can never stop it happening everywhere we know
that but we have to minimize it
with modern technology
mater that we can really minimize it and everyday eight days a week
in connecticut and new york
the police
the court's and other people stop it from happening somewhere
there's so many people out there with his malice in them but then how does
your lawsuit happens something that's fine
because i think that we can get higher standards for security in the schools
and i can and i played in the event in our anniversary and i you know i've had
some great lawyers call me who i am in all of call me
and say look i don't like your case
but i'll help you if you want to the n_r_a_ for free that's really true and
the the but if you say something about the n_r_a_ do that dot even mention that
when you say something about the n_r_a_ you get double bonus
death threats
counsel over at the world
we did you go i don't rely on the commercialism in t thank you so much for
talking to you and see where this goes on with the senate want to talk about
that uh...
that starting point