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Advisory opinions.

I'm Sarah Isger, that's David French and our book today will be

reforming criminal justice, a Christian proposal by Matthew T. Martins. But

before we get to that, first David, I just wanted to give our sincerest condolences and that the

friends and family of Christopher Morvillo who is a defense attorney who had just won the case of his life and then died while out on a boat with his client celebrating that win in a, you know, freak storm off the coast of Italy.

I know how many people in our extended legal family

are really mourning and suffering right now

at that loss, and just wanted to give them, let them know, they're with us.

Yeah, it's, the story is almost difficult to wrap your mind around that you have this very wealthy British, you know, criminal defendant.

He wins the trial, he's on trial, vindicating, you know, ending a years long ordeal, you know, vindicating his good name perhaps and then he invites people close to

him and part of his legal team on his boat to celebrate and it just sinks in the most freak

accident.

I mean I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around it.

It sounds like from the original initial reporting a unusual storm arose and it got,

maybe had a direct hit from a water spout.

Nobody really knows how something like this could happen,

but my goodness that's sad.

It's so sad.

Interestingly, his co-defendant also died about 24 hours earlier, but to Chris's friends from

Wild Gotchall from the Southern District of New York where he was in AUSA,

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