Welcome to our tenth episode of The Legal Watchdog podcast.
In today's podcast we discuss the preliminary hearing in criminal cases in Wisconsin. While the decision whether to waive or have the preliminary hearing rests with the defendant, we discuss the thought process that goes into the defense lawyer's recommendations on this point. We also consider the limited benefits of having the hearing, as well as two serious but often overlooked risks of having the hearing. The case that gave us the idea for this episode is State v. Hull, where the state was allowed to use hearsay at the defendant's prelim, and the defendant was prevented from calling a witness in his own defense. During the podcast we also discuss the problematic case of State v. Stuart.
Toward the end of the episode when Matt gets out of line, as is his custom, Amy is forced once again to threaten both the stun belt and the restraint chair.
In today's podcast we discuss the preliminary hearing in criminal cases in Wisconsin. While the decision whether to waive or have the preliminary hearing rests with the defendant, we discuss the thought process that goes into the defense lawyer's recommendations on this point. We also consider the limited benefits of having the hearing, as well as two serious but often overlooked risks of having the hearing. The case that gave us the idea for this episode is State v. Hull, where the state was allowed to use hearsay at the defendant's prelim, and the defendant was prevented from calling a witness in his own defense. During the podcast we also discuss the problematic case of State v. Stuart.
Toward the end of the episode when Matt gets out of line, as is his custom, Amy is forced once again to threaten both the stun belt and the restraint chair.
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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.
Finally, here is the podcast:
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