[Burnett:] Our second story, OUTFRONT, a controversial rape sentence appealed. Montana prosecutors are appealing the 30-day sentence a judge gave a former teacher after he admitted to raping his 14-year-old student. She then took her own life. The state attorney general described the sentence as illegal and the judge now concedes he may have been wrong. But will it mean more time behind bars? This has been a shocking story. OUTFRONT tonight, I want to bring in criminal defense attorney and our legal analyst, Danny Cevallos. Danny, prosecutors now appealing the sentence of this 54-year-old man, Stacey Rambold, how likely is a reversal?
[Danny Cevallos, Cnn Legal Analyst:] At this point, Erin, when you read if the sentence given was within the legal prescribed sentence, in other words, if it fell within a range that was legal then the sentence will stand. It is discretionary. The problem here is that the attorney general is alleging that the judge misapplied the law. We should add from the testimony at sentencing and the filing papers that the prosecutor at that hearing clearly was not aware of any mandatory minimum otherwise and absolutely did not object to the sentence when it was applied even though he may have wanted a higher sentence. I believe the prosecutor was not aware that there was a mandatory minimum problem at the original hearing. Only the attorney general later on said it is actually two years.
[Burnett:] I'm curious about it. People hear this story. It's just so shocking. You have a 54-year-old man who rapes a 14-year-old girl. She takes her own life because of the agony of the situation, how it is possible in this country that someone could only get 30 days in jail for that. It's hard for most people to understand, to contemplate. So if he is resentenced, if that is even successful, how much time could he get? Could he get a sentence that most Americans would say that seems right or is that not even on the table?
[Cevallos:] Well, Montana code is teaching America that even in a state with a very liberal sentencing code sentencing is still extremely confusing. So in this case, it probably was an illegal sentence, the 30 days, the minimum should be two years in this instance. It is very easy to miss that reading the code. Once that is decided that two years can go from two years to 100 years and the judge has broad discretion. So if he wanted to apply another mandatory minimum it would be two years. However, with all the public scrutiny, I wouldn't be surprised if this judge as we say in the defense business sends him to the moon so that he can avoid any further criticism.
[Burnett:] All right, well, Danny, thank you very much. Even two years somehow feels so wrong. Our third story OUTFRONT, bullied to death, a Connecticut teenager took his own life last week after his first day of school and now it looks like he had been suffering from years of bullying. According to friends, the 15-year-old Bart Palosz, whose family immigrated to this country from Poland, Bart was teased because he was 6'3" and had an accent. But his internal struggles only came to light after he took his life. Rosa Flores is OUTFRONT.
[Rosa Flores, Cnn Correspondent:] The friendship between Bart Palosz and Lisa Johnson's son, Izzy, was a mother's dream.
[Unidentified Female:] They were instant friends. They really clicked.
[Flores:] They hang out and post videos like these on YouTube, two quirky kids, one great friendship.
[Unidentified Female:] That is also why he and Izzy clicked so well.
[Flores:] Palosz moved to the U.S. from Poland, grew up to be a 15-year-old standing 6'3" who Johnson says was targeted by bullies. [on camera]: Why was he bullied?
[Lisa Johnson, Mother Of Bart's Friend, Izzy:] Well, I mean, he is really tall. He had an accent. He was just one of these kids that was slightly awkward.
[Flores:] Palosz committed suicide after the first day of his sophomore year at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut. Local police say a preliminary investigation shows he used a family shot gun that was stored in a locked cabinet.
[Johnson:] The worst, worst, worst thing was how are we going to tell Izzy? My husband put his arms around him and I just held his hand and I said, Izzy, I'm so sorry, but Bart just killed himself. It was like this can't be possible.
[Flores:] The Greenwich School District is investigating and tells CNN any indications that a student is experiencing significant mental health distress is addressed by the school level by personnel trained to recognize and respond to these concerns. But his sister paints a different picture. In an interview with the "Connecticut Post" she says it pretty much was say you're sorry and that's it. I honestly do not think the school addressed the bullying. It could have saved him if they did. Family and friends say he never showed signs of trouble. But after his death, investigators revealed to the family posts on Google plus that show otherwise. In July, he made reference to being bullied for ten years and wrote, "I have chosen to go with three people's advice and kill myself. I just wish it was faster."
[Nick Sages, Went To School With Bart:] One of the nicest people I had ever met in my life. I never heard him say anything bad about anybody else. He was just like a really kind hearted person.
[Flores:] Now a group of his classmates want to use social media to provide peer to peer support anonymously.
[Elias Frank, Senior Class V.p:] Some people can't reach out to adults themselves, but they can reach to a fellow student who wants to help out.
[Flores:] It is an effort to make sure every student can find someone to talk to. Pain and guilt in this town, a community left asking, could we have done more? For OUTFRONT, Rosa Flores, Greenwich, Connecticut.
[Burnett:] Still to come, despite announcing she has terminal brain cancer actress Valerie Harper refuses to give up. We will tell you what she plans to do and why millions of Americans will be able to feel uplifted by it. Plus a woman receives $280,000 after her African-American boss refers to her as the n-word. Her employers are appealing that decision. A lawyer representing her boss comes OUTFRONT to explain why. One of the craziest videos we saw today, a man stuck in a wall in China. We will tell you why he chose to go there.