Welcome to episode seven of The Legal Watchdog Podcast.
In today's podcast we discuss a number of trial related issues, ranging from the composition of the jury to your right to have your attorney in the court room during trial. (Spoiler alert: your attorney doesn't always have to be awake, or even present in court, during trial.) The main cases for our discussion are State v. Robinson and Woods v. Donald.
Our apologies to the southern judiciary. One of our topics in this podcast was the Batson challenge during jury selection. And we went off on a tangent to discuss the case of Walker v. Girdich, where the trial judge held that the prosecutor's striking a juror because he was "a black man" was a race-neutral, and therefore acceptable, reason. And our first guess was that this was a case from the southern judiciary, but it was not. It was a case from the allegedly politically liberal New York judiciary. (As I've written before, there is no relationship between political affiliation and the respect for individual rights, and this is yet another example.) In any case, kudos to the Second Circuit -- which covers Connecticut, New York, and Vermont -- for the reversal.
Our apologies to the southern judiciary. One of our topics in this podcast was the Batson challenge during jury selection. And we went off on a tangent to discuss the case of Walker v. Girdich, where the trial judge held that the prosecutor's striking a juror because he was "a black man" was a race-neutral, and therefore acceptable, reason. And our first guess was that this was a case from the southern judiciary, but it was not. It was a case from the allegedly politically liberal New York judiciary. (As I've written before, there is no relationship between political affiliation and the respect for individual rights, and this is yet another example.) In any case, kudos to the Second Circuit -- which covers Connecticut, New York, and Vermont -- for the reversal.
Our apologies also go out to Dick Cheney. You were a vice president -- and an especially influential one at that -- so I should have known that your first name was Dick, not Don. (Though I did accurately peg you as an avid, but not necessarily an accurate, hunter.) And this leads to my final apology: the former Temple basketball coach was John Chaney, not Don Chaney. I have no knowledge of whether John Chaney liked to hunt and, if he did, whether he was a more accurate shot than Dick Cheney.
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Our funky, jazzy theme song ("Cold Hurt") and our cool intermission song ("Murgatroyd") were generously provided by David Pizarro. To hear more of David's music you can listen to his philosophy-psychology podcast Very Bad Wizards, or go directly to his SoundCloud page.
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