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Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

Best Of: Defending a Monster (Shannon Smith & Molly Blythe)

Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

Knox Robinson Productions

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, True Crime, Mental Health

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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When defense attorneys Shannon Smith and Molly Blythe agreed to represent Olympic doctor Larry Nassar, who pled guilty to sexually abusing young gymnasts, they were accused of betraying womankind. https://www.patreon.com/knoxrobinson⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.amandaknox.com⁠⁠ Bluesky: @amandaknox.com | @wisecracker.bsky.social IG: ⁠⁠@amamaknox⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠@emceecarbon⁠⁠ Free: My Search for Meaning: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amanda-knox/free/9781538770719/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today's best up episode is number 14, defending a monster, in which we interviewed Shannon

0:36.5

Smith and Molly Blythe, two women who represented Larry Nasser, the Olympic doctor who...

0:43.8

Molested a bunch of young girls.

0:47.3

They got a lot of hate for daring to represent him in court.

0:50.9

Now, to be clear, they represented him in pleading guilty.

0:56.1

But I think the really interesting conversation that we have with them is what it means to be a public defender or what it means to be a defender in general.

1:06.1

And how is it as women?

1:09.8

How do you represent, well, a monster?

1:14.1

Just draw, father, have a chance to say something.

1:16.8

Go ahead, sir.

1:18.6

You saw a...

1:19.6

In a courtroom, we don't use profanity, but if you have some words that you would like to say,

1:25.6

I would like to give you the opportunity to say that.

1:27.7

I would ask you to, as part of this sentencing,

1:31.3

to grant me five minutes in a locked room of this demon.

1:35.3

I have a feeling.

1:37.3

Would you do that?

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