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84: Part 2: Brian Surber Goes From a Courtroom Confession to Finding a Kidnapped Girl

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Brian Surber has a unique position in law enforcement. From a prosecuting attorney to a drug agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, Brian obtained a courtroom confession from a serial rapist and helped find an 8-year-old girl who was kidnapped. Both stories will leave you shaking your head for different reasons.

Find his book ‘Injustice for All: The (Familiar) Fallacies of Criminal Justice’ on the Game of Crimes Book List HERE.



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And Murphold appreciate this. Would you rather do wires at the state level or wires at the

0:15.7

federal level?

0:16.7

That's the state level.

0:17.7

Damn right.

0:18.7

If nothing else, just we don't have to have approval at DC to go up. So, you know, we

0:24.9

at one time had an assistant DA that was involved in some stuff. And, you know, we walked

0:29.5

the wiretap through my boss and I and draft the app order affidavit called the presiding

0:35.6

judge the pellet court. The attorney general has to sign off on it. We got that done

0:39.7

in 48 hours to go up on a wire.

0:42.6

At 48 hours, Murphold, those guys would still be there wouldn't even be done collecting

0:46.7

documentation.

0:47.7

I wouldn't even write the answer.

0:48.7

David.

0:49.7

That was a corruption case on. I mean, again, a public corruption case with a DA and

0:55.0

assistant DA and it was important. So, I mean, that was an all-nighter.

0:58.6

We worked together divided up and we, I mean, but it was important and had the judge

1:02.8

on standby. That wouldn't happen federally. You know, it's got to go to DC.

1:08.3

And so, but so many I love my time at the Bureau. Again, another job I do for free the rest

1:13.2

of my life. At this time, I'm presenting kind of teaching a lot of stuff on the Fourth

1:19.1

Amendment at conferences. And I this thought it was odd that I'm teaching knock-and-talks

1:26.0

or consent encounters. What's reasonable for constructive refusal on a search warrant,

1:31.4

all these things. Never done it myself. Just seemed kind of odd to me. Talking about

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