Neighbor's Letter Says Euthanize Autistic Boy.
BANFIELD: This one might be from the shake your head file. You won't believe what a person wrote. It was written anonymously about an autistic child. A neighbor sent a hate letter in the mail about their 13--year-old son. Maxwell plays ball in the backyard and the neighbor got so upset about the noise that she wrote this extraordinarily cruel letter and it really defies logic. I want to read part of it because it goes and on: "I hate people like you who believe just because you have a special-needs kid you're entitled to special treatment. God. Do every one in our community a huge favor and move!!! Vamose!!! Scram!!! Move away and get out of this type of neighborhood setting!!! Go live in trailer in the wilds or something with your wild-animal kid. Nobody wants you living here and they don't have the guts to tell you!!! Do the right thing and move or euthanize him!!! Either way, we're all better off!!! Sincerely, one pissed-off mother." While you germinate for a little bit, I want to bring in CNN's senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, Jeffrey Toobin; and attorney and former federal prosecutor, Faith Jenkins; and CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, Mark Nejame. Where to begin? Let me start with you because the Canadian authorities are taking this very seriously, Jeff. They are looking into the possibility that this might constitute criminal behavior and a threat of some kind. I know you've looked into the Canadian law. What have you found?</s>TOOBIN: Canada doesn't have the First Amendment. In the United States, I don't think this would be grounds for any sort of case. The First Amendment allows you to say some hateful things and I think it would cover this letter. In Canada, it's different. It's not as protective. If you could identify the sender, which hasn't happened so far, there could be some sort of harassment filed -- harassment case filed against the author.</s>BANFIELD: OK. Nothing that rises to the level of say a criminal threat?</s>TOOBIN: No. There is no threat there. It's just denunciation in the most hateful, horrible way.</s>BANFIELD: You're a former prosecutor, what do you think?</s>FAITH JENKINS, ATTORNEY & FORMER PROSECUTOR: If you look at the wording, "move or euthanize him," you could look at that as being more than just an idle threat. When you look at the overall tone of the letter and the speech used in the letter and the level of anger expressed in the letter, I think that's what investigators will possibly look at.</s>BANFIELD: What about just the notion, Mark, that this is an anonymous letter. And let me explain that this is a grandmother's home. The mother of Maxwell and the father work and so, often times, Maxwell plays in the grandmother's backyard a couple days a week. It was the grandmother who was the recipient of this. What about the forensics in actually finding the sender? It is that tough, is it?</s>MARK NEJAME, ATTORNEY & CNN LEGAL ANALYST: First of all, you go and try to get finger print, all that's been contaminated. You won't get anything.</s>BANFIELD: Why? Why do you say --</s>NEJAME: It was handled. They're looking at it and passing it around. That's why you immediate preserve a crime scene. Then you even get into the issue about knocking on neighbor's doors. It's not going to happen.</s>BANFIELD: It's got to be someone within earshot. This whiner says she can't stand the sound.</s>NEJAME: Of course. It isn't even a crime to allow -- this is a hateful, gutless, horrendous letter. Is it against the law? Canada does not have the protection that we have in this country. This would not be a consideration in this country. In Canada, threats can constitute a crime. Threats in the United States are not going to be a crime for narrow circumstances we won't get into today.</s>BANFIELD: It's suggesting that this woman euthanize her child, and, in the sender's words, "Send his non-retarded body parts to science." You mentioned harassment, maybe some kind of civil suit, anything?</s>BANFIELD: How about a restraining order?</s>TOOBIN: I think you used some of your Canadian detective skills. You pointed out in the letter, there are several spellings that are American spellings.</s>BANFIELD: Yes.</s>TOOBIN: No "U" in labor that -- rather than Canadian spellings, which would seem to narrow the suspects, especially if you just went through the neighborhood.</s>BANFIELD: Can I tell you --</s>BANFIELD: Yes, this person who wrote this letter is such an idiot. Everything is misspelled.</s>TOOBIN: They could identify the person and subject them to public criticism, humiliation. That might be the best resolution.</s>NEJAME: Whether they allow intentional infliction and emotional distress, or work on some kind of crime or tort in that regard, that might do it. But the reality of it is that --</s>BANFIELD: I got to wrap. I'm sorry. Only because I really love Suzanne Malveaux.</s>SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: A senseless killing is rocking two continents. A promising college baseball player from Australia is dead. Police say he was the victim of a random act of violence. The U.S. takes a stand against Egypt. The Obama administration decides to withhold some aid for now.