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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Prosecutors say Marcy West was strangled, while her husband, Kevin West, claims she died after a seizure. Julia Jenaé and her panel break down the case.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.

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Opinions.

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All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.

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Sensitive topics are discussed.

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Discretion is advised.

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A former fire chief claims his wife had a seizure, and initially the paramedics believed him,

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why he's now on trial in

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Washington for murder and in New York Luigi Mangione back in court as the attorneys debate

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death also in the Big Apple our guests give their takes on the presidential response to

0:32.4

Sean Diddy Combs's pardon request in the court of law everything is done for the day in those cases

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let's call to the court of law, everything is done for the day in those cases. Let's call to order Court of Opinion.

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Welcome to Court of Opinion. I'm Julia Jeney. Thank you for joining us this evening. Was it seizure or strangulation? That's the question a jury in Washington faces in the trial against a former fire battalion chief. He's accused of killing his wife and what prosecutors are calling a crime fueled by betrayal. Former fire chief Kevin West is charged with murdering his wife Marcy. He called 911 in January of

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2024. He claimed his wife Marcy was having a seizure and first responders rushed in

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to save her but they couldn't. Months later a medical examiner looked closer and found

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injuries on her body that were consistent with strangulation. Then Marcy's death was

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ruled a homicide caused by blunt neck

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trauma. Meanwhile, an investigation also revealed something else that that fire chief was having an affair

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and that he planned to move out of his home with Marcy the same day that she died. The court has

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restrictions, so we can't air that testimony until the day after.

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So let's get you caught up on what happened in that trial yesterday.

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Getting to the actual involvement that you had on January 8th,

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2024, did you respond to the West residents on that day?

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