A long time ago last fall, CNN hired George Zimmerman defense lawyer Mark O’Mara as a legal analyst, surroundings the network up for an infinite number of bonzo news juxtapositions like this one: today O’Mara and host Ashleigh Banfield debated Alan Dershowitz over whether or not the supplier who offered Philip Seymour Hoffman the heroin that killed him must be tried for homicide. (And also we will have to legalize heroin perhaps?)

Dershowitz known as the hypothetical homicide cost an “absurd misapplication of the regulation,” causing Banfield to grill him on whether or not drug dealers had been worse than drunk drivers.

“This is a man who was once going to get his heroin no matter what,” Dershowitz stated. “If he didn’t get it in the u . s . a ., he would get it out. This raises the large difficulty, if we will have to be decriminalizing all these drugs, making them into a medical difficulty.”

“You are smarter than I’m, however I will never go away this without pronouncing that the man who gave an addict the drug that killed him deserves to depart for existence,” Banfield stated.

“What in regards to the man that gave the addict the drug that didn’t kill him?” Dershowitz requested. “You’re taking part in Russian roulette. In this explicit case, he died. In lots of cases, they don’t. You will pick a scapegoat and put this man in prison for the entire crimes that all of the other addicts did?”

“The government has executed quite a lot of different things to carry individuals responsible,” O’Mara countered. “I love the theory of saying to any individual, ‘Should you provide a drug that motives a loss of life, we’re going to hold you accountable.’ Only because I feel we have to head up the ladder to get to the people and let them recognize, dealing medicine can put you in jail for life.”

Watch the whole clip below, by way of CNN:

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