Pedophilia; Marijuana: The Disconnect Between the Law and Public Opinion
Pedophilia
On Friday a Lake Elsinore man was arrested in connection with the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of a five year-old Orange County girl, Samantha Runnion. This is just the latest in what seems to be a string of disappearances and murders of young girls across the West. What causes people to commit such unspeakable acts? Larry Mantle talks with John Hopkins psychiatrist and pedophilia expert, Dr. Fred Berlin, and criminal profiler Brent Turvey, author of Criminal Profiling (Academic Press).
Marijuana: The Disconnect Between the Law and Public Opinion
Larry Mantle talks about the California Supreme Court decision to overturn the felony conviction of a man arrested for growing marijuana for medical use. How will the state law conflict with federal marijuana laws? Larry asks this question and more of University of Santa Clara law professor and lawyer who argued the case, Gerald Uelmen, and USC Associate Professor of Psychology, Mitchell Earleywine.