Episodes
Monday Nov 07, 2016
260. Jesse "The Body" Ventura on his "Marijuana Manifesto"
Monday Nov 07, 2016
Monday Nov 07, 2016
- The similarities between the world of professional wrestling and the world of politics, and how the former prepared the Governor for the latter.
- How Governor Ventura first got into politics, and how he was able to become the Governor of a state without being beholden to either the Democratic or Republican parties.
- Why, after having been an advocate for marijuana legalization for nearly his entire political career, now is the time to push full forward ahead on the issue of marijuana legalization.
- How myths about marijuana have been perpetuated over the years, and just what interested parties benefit from them.
- How Jesse was personally affected by medical marijuana in his own life.
- So. Much. More.
Friday Nov 04, 2016
Friday Nov 04, 2016
On today's show former Washington, D.C., homicide detective James Trainum joins Felony Friday. James spent 17 years in homicide for the Metropolitan Police Department, before retiring in 2010. He was the lead detective on the high-profile Starbucks triple murder in Georgetown in 1997, which he eventually helped solve in 1999. He started his career as a firefighter and paramedic, before becoming a police officer. During his early years in law enforcement, James worked various job functions including patrol, undercover work, and burglary investigations. Finally, he made the move into homicide investigations. James recently published a book titled: How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room.
Discussed on the show:
- James shares what led him to pursue a career in law enforcement and explains how he solved a high-profile homicide while investigating a robbery, which started his career as a homicide detective.
- There are three types of false confessions that James notes in his book, voluntary confessions, compliant confessions and internalized confessions. James explains how each occurs and the most common of the three.
- James shares the details of the Norfolk 4 case. It's a famous case that has been in the news recently because the falsely accused were recently exonerated. Detectives on the case interrogated four sailors into falsely confessing that they raped and murdered a woman. There was one major problem, none of the sailors' DNA matched the DNA found on the scene.
- Lastly, James discusses tactics and countermeasures that should be put in place to minimize the likelihood of a false confession.
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Friday Jul 08, 2016
Friday Jul 08, 2016
On today's episode of Felony Friday Amshula Jayaram joins host John Odermatt to discuss criminal justice reform and exoneration of innocent prisoners. Amshula is a state policy advocate for the Innocence Project. She leads state-level campaigns to enact policies and laws that benefit wrongfully convicted individuals, improve public safety and prevent future injustices.
Amshula has prior experience working in the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union. While at the ACLU she built policy campaigns to pass legislation on a variety of national security, human rights and criminal justice issues. She has also worked as a Fellow with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights to promote better policies, education and awareness on critical issues. Additionally, Amshula has spent a number of a years coordinating the pro bono efforts of private sector law firms.
I hope you enjoy this very important conversation!
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Submit any questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas to felonyfriday@lionsofliberty.com. This show is not my soapbox, it is a vehicle to communicate and amplify the injustices rampant in the criminal justice system. We need your help to make it the best it can possibly be! If you like what you hear please share it with a friend and subscribe for free via iTunes (don’t forget to leave us a rating and review ) or the Stitcher Radio App
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Friday Jun 10, 2016
Felony Friday Ep. 023 - Alan Hirsch is Shining a Light on False Confessions
Friday Jun 10, 2016
Friday Jun 10, 2016
Today on Felony Friday host John Odermatt is joined by false confession expert Alan Hirsch. Throughout his career Alan Hirsch has embraced aspects of both the civil and criminal justice systems. However, Alan's focus has shifted to more heavily focused false confessions. During his lengthy career Alan has studied and written about false confession extensively. He has also assisted attorneys as an expert witness on false confessions and has been retained in more than 100 cases.
Alan Hirsch is a professor, attorney and author. He graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in Philosophy and Yale Law School. He is currently chair of the Justice and Law Studies program at Williams College, where he has taught Constitutional Law. Alan has published six books, a dozen scholarly articles in law journals, and more than twenty op-eds and magazine articles on various aspects of the legal system. His latest book is called, The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!: The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation.
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Submit any questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas to felonyfriday@lionsofliberty.com. This show is not my soapbox, it is a vehicle to communicate and amplify the injustices rampant in the criminal justice system. We need your help to make it the best it can possibly be! If you like what you hear please share it with a friend and subscribe for free via iTunes (don’t forget to leave us a rating and review ) or the Stitcher Radio App
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