Will Darren Wilson Testify in Grand Jury Case
BALDWIN: All right. Let's hop back in with HLN host, Jane Velez- Mitchell; and CNN senior legal analyst, Jeff Toobin. Where were we? Let me begin with something that Don Lemon just made this point. We know this grand jury, beginning today, we know the prosecutor in this case out of St. Louis County has extended an invitation to the police officer, who shot and killed Michael Brown, if he would like to testify. Much of the world has not -- listen, we haven't heard from him, period. We heard from a friend of a friend. You say he probably won't accept the invitation.</s>TOOBIN: Probably not.</s>BALDWIN: Why?</s>TOOBIN: Lawyers invariably tell their clients who are under investigation, "Don't testify if you don't have to." Because it locks you into a story under oath. You can later be cross-examined. You can hope your story is so persuasive you'll persuade the grand jurors not to indict. But that's a big risk and I think he'll decline to testify.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Under normal circumstances, I would agree with you. But this is such a highly politicized situation, there is such a demand for an indictment to come out of this, I think that this officer will say I want to get in there and at least tell my side of the story. And in that sense, it's already weighted in favor of the prosecution because that officer is alive to tell his side of story. Michael Brown is not alive to tell his side of the story. And his good friend, who was right there with him, a key witness, he's got credibility problems. Because he was with, according to authorities, police -- excuse me, according to authorities, he was with Michael Brown at the convenience store minutes earlier during this alleged robbery. Now, he had spoken to the media and said we were talking down the street and minding our own business. So he may have credibility problems. He's the key witness who would stand up and say Michael Brown was doing nothing wrong and raising his hands.</s>BALDWIN: Talking to Mark O'Mara, often the eye-witnesses are often traumatized by the series of events and it's sometimes blurry that the facts, whatever they see, aren't as picture-perfect as one would think.</s>TOOBIN: True. But when the prosecution has the burden of proving to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt what happened, if your witnesses are inconsistent, if your witnesses are traumatized, that's your problem as a prosecutor, not the defendant's.</s>BALDWIN: Got it. Got it. Jeff Toobin, Jane Velez-Mitchell, thank you, thank you very much. Coming up next, he is a rapper, an entrepreneur, an activist, but he's also the son of a police officer. Mike -- Killer Mike Render joins live with his emotional words for the chaos in Ferguson. Plus, Spike Lee's remarks that there is, quote, "war on the black male."</s>SPIKE LEE, DIRECTOR: And we get blinded to think that because we've got Oprah, we've got Michael Jordan, we've got Lebron, we've got Beyonce, we've got Jay-Z, that everything is OK. And I'm trying to show any disrespect to the great --