MSNBC Helps Chris Murphy Trash Republicans on Abortion, Guns

I'll tell you, Rachel, what really concerns me, and troubles me, is this unique Minnesota law called "spark of life." It allowed the parents of Daunte Wright to take the witness stand and talk about the importance of his life. Which is fine. But it also allowed them to portray their son as this angelic person. 

The jurors don't know, for example, that he has been accused of shooting a teenager in the head, accused of shooting a man in the leg during an attempted carjacking, and robbing a woman in her own home at gunpoint and allegedly sexually assaulting her. You know, if a trial is the search for the truth, don't the jurors -- aren't they entitled to the full truth? Should the law be exploited to deceive the jurors? That troubles me.