We've got a special episode here today on Los Angeles Magazine where we are collaborating with Beyond a Reasonable Doubt.

So I have our friend, Mark Garragos, with me.

Hello, Mark.

How are you, Lauren, and looking very relaxed after, you know, your weekend in the country or whatever you've done, right?

I was in New Hampshire this weekend, but Mark and I have been talking a lot about the

Carmelo Anthony murder trial.

And, you know, what am I a lawyer who I will not publicly humiliate when I asked her

about the Carmelo Anthony case, said, why does anybody care about the basketball player?

I knew that was coming. I said my husband said the same thing. I was like, no, it's not. It's like, no, I don't have time to.

And I remember completely unrelated, but thinking because I'm sitting in New York and the Knicks or in the finals.

I remember an evening when I was at a bar down and ran into Alex Spiro and then Carmelo joined us at the bar.

And so all those memories have flooded in. But this Carmelo Anthony, and I don't, I have a lot of theories

on why this case has become such a internet sensation, not the least of which is it's the,

it's George Zimmerman for the new age, but I will, and I thought about...

Lord Floyd, you mean, I mean, I guess you could see Zimmerman or Zimmerman for 12 years ago.

That's the OG.

I mean, you're talking...

And the reason I thought about that is I saw Mark Olbera commenting on it and made me think about it.

So why don't you kind of give your summary,

give your prosecution of a summary.

Let me give a summary for those who are unaware.

And then when you talk about why you think it's a certain way,

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