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Best Case Worst Case

143 | A Reckoning

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jim takes us back to his early days as a prosecutor and his first, and most personal, undercover assignment ever

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0:00.0

As I was speaking, I started shaking again, just like I had.

0:10.0

I was in that cabin alone in the middle of 600 acres of woods, 60 miles away from my

0:16.8

home with no ride, no telephone, no nothing.

0:21.0

My brain is spinning.

0:22.6

I can't help but wonder whether that behavior was incredibly typical.

0:27.6

Hello and welcome to Best Case Worst Case.

0:40.8

This is Jim Clemente Retired at BI Pro Followed Former in New York City prosecutor and

0:44.3

writer producer on CBS' Criminal Minds.

0:46.8

And with me today is...

0:48.4

Hi everybody, it's franceyhakes, former state and federal prosecutor Jim, unlike our

0:53.2

last few episodes, sadly we are not in the studio together.

0:57.6

Well, I'm in the middle of a trial at a different location but thank God for technology.

1:03.1

I know, it's at least we're together and that's the important thing, although I'm sure

1:07.4

you miss me terribly.

1:09.0

How could I not francey?

1:10.1

How could I not?

1:11.5

Well Jim, this is one of those rare occasions I get it occasionally where I get to interview

1:19.5

you.

1:20.6

You.

1:21.6

Can you believe it?

1:23.4

All my skills as a prosecutor, my cross-examination skills, my direct examination skills, my ear for

1:30.5

people who aren't telling me everything I want to know, it's all coming into play today.

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