#8 - Bjorn Brunvand

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Bjorn Brunvand is a criminal defense lawyer who is largely known for a case where he acquitted a Ukrainian ship captain and 14 crew members accused of smuggling 3.5 tons ($1 Billion worth) of cocaine from Columbia. Bjorn has also been involved in a large number of capital murder trials including that of Oscar Ray Bolin, who was convicted of 3 murders, and sentenced to the death penalty after spending 20 years on death row in Florida State Prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bjorn Brunvon, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for coming back on and giving us a second chance.
0:08.1	With sound this time.
0:09.2	With sound, we have audio now.
0:10.7	All right.
0:11.5	So thanks for coming on.
0:12.4	You're making us look good.
0:13.9	Hopefully.
0:15.6	So for all the people out there who may not know, give me a little background on what you do.
0:21.3	Criminal Defense lawyer, primarily in the Tampa Bay area, but doing business all over the
0:27.6	United States and wherever the cases take me. I've been doing it for about 30 years.
0:35.7	Wow. And then how did you, how did you start earlier start or like where did you, how did you originally get interested in
0:40.9	law?
0:41.3	Like what were you doing or, you know, where, what age were you and where were you when
0:45.1	you decided you wanted to become a lawyer?
0:48.2	So it was probably about 14 and I'd just been to a movie with a buddy of mine.
0:54.4	And it was about a trial lawyer.
0:57.0	I can't remember what the movie was.
0:59.1	It was back in Norway.
1:01.0	And as we're walking out from the movie theater,
1:03.5	I said, well, that looks like a cool thing to do for a living.
1:07.0	And he looked at me and said, oh, that's way too difficult for you.
1:10.1	And I said, all right, well, I'm going to show you.
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