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The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

18. Self Representation

The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

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True Crime

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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They say that a man who represents himself has a fool for a lawyer. What are the rules if you want to represent yourself? And should you do it? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

I'm Alice and I'm Brett and this is the prosecutor's legal police. Oh, Welcome back to the prosecutor's legal briefs. I'm your host Alice and I'm

0:38.5

joined as always by my self-sufficient co-host Brett.

0:43.0

Oh Alice, I just love your pun so much.

0:45.0

You just, you're so brilliant.

0:47.0

They're so funny.

0:48.0

I laughed.

0:49.0

You'd be a great dad, Alice.

0:50.0

I know you're a great mom, but you'd be a great dad.

0:52.0

You got the dad jokes down to a science.

0:55.3

I just love it because look everything has to tie in and also it helps me think of words for you

1:01.5

because you are incredibly self-sufficient but like I mean I don't know

1:05.8

that that's that big of a compliment but here's what I think about when I think of

1:10.4

you and self-sufficiency so Brett is like one of the most amazing lawyers. I think you all know this from his amazing, you know, lectures about the law, but like Brett can can just take a case, no matter how messed up the record is, how badly

1:27.3

another attorney has messed it up, and he just gathers it all and he cleans it all up into the

1:32.1

most beautiful brief or presentation you've ever seen.

1:35.6

So you are like amazing.

1:37.4

So there you go.

1:38.4

See I turned it into a really good compliment.

1:40.0

Well I appreciate that Alice, though the subject we're going to talk about today if you're a lawyer and you're in that situation where you're having to take a trial transcript and clean it all up and make it presentable. If you are dealing with a situation where the person

1:55.0

decided to represent themselves, then good luck is going to be a challenge because you are

2:01.4

in for some sort of whirlwind experience because the old saw about how

2:07.0

anybody who represents themselves has a fool for a lawyer. I don't know that I want to go

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