BARD - Alan Jackson on Karen Read, Nick Reiner, and High Profile Justice
Reasonable Doubt
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Mark is joined this week by criminal defense attorney Alan Jackson. Coming off his headline-making victory in the Karen Read retrial, Jackson offers a candid look at the pressures and pitfalls of high-profile defense work, including the emotional impact of withdrawing from the Nick Reiner case. The conversation explores how media attention, prosecutorial conduct, gag orders, and judicial decision-making can shape the outcome of a trial long before a jury deliberates.
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| 0:00.0 | This is beyond a reasonable doubt with your hosts, Mark Garrigas and Gary Smith. |
| 0:09.5 | Well, I couldn't be happier. |
| 0:12.4 | A gentleman I've known since he was a, is it fair to call you a baby DA in the DA? |
| 0:18.7 | Absolutely. |
| 0:19.5 | Yeah, when we first met, baby |
| 0:21.2 | that's exactly what it was. |
| 0:23.1 | Alan Jackson. |
| 0:24.2 | By the way, you've skyrocketed since then, |
| 0:27.2 | and do you remember who your wingman was in that case, |
| 0:33.0 | Japanese OJ? |
| 0:34.7 | Oh, I do. |
| 0:35.8 | I do. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm talking about skyrocketing. |
| 0:37.2 | Yeah, Rick Ocampo, Judge Ocampo. Yeah, he's the... Judge Ocampo Oh, I do. I do. And talking about skyrocketing. Yeah, Rick Ocampo. Judge O'Compo. Yeah, he's the... Judge O'Compo, now presiding |
| 0:41.7 | judge of the LA Superior Court. Correct. He needs no introduction. Alan Jackson, |
| 0:47.6 | fresh off of the unbelievable verdict in the Karen Reed case on the second trial and vindicating her. And by the way, |
| 0:59.4 | I'm going to start off with, because I felt your pain. Last week, we did a episode on your press |
| 1:05.8 | conference for Nick Reiner. And I said, I, the empathy I felt during that press conference, Gary, |
| 1:14.0 | do you have just a snippet of that? Because I want Alan to comment on what I saw, which |
| 1:21.5 | I tell you, Alan, when I watch this, it looked to me. You can tell me if I'm right. You were so into this. You had |
| 1:31.8 | spent so much time. You had invested kind of, and what makes you great is your brain was |
| 1:39.2 | completely into this. And the frustration seemed palpable. Yeah, that's the, that's right. |
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