Civil Rights Attorney Exposes Misconduct in the Criminal Justice System | Alex Taubes

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Attorney Alex Taubes, a Yale Law School graduate and dedicated civil rights lawyer based in New Haven, Connecticut, delves into systemic misconduct within the criminal justice system. With a focus on wrongful convictions, police brutality, and governmental negligence, Taubes shares insights from his extensive legal career, including organizing the "7 Days of Truth with Proof" rally to highlight wrongful incarcerations. He discusses his efforts to combat systemic injustices and his commitment to advocating for the underrepresented. #CivilRights #CriminalJusticeReform #AlexTaubes #WrongfulConvictions #PoliceMisconduct #JusticeForAll #LegalAdvocacy #SystemicReform Connect with Alex Taubes: https://taubeslaw.com/ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://convictclothing.net/collections/convict-clothing-x-ian-bick Timestamps: 00:00:00 Journey to Becoming a Lawyer in Connecticut 00:03:53 Navigating Private Legal Practice and Client Connections 00:08:20 Impact of Free Phone Calls and Tablets in Prisons 00:12:00 The Role of Unions in Connecticut Corrections 00:15:46 Gender Dynamics and Misconduct in Correctional Facilities 00:19:39 The Complexity of Judging Horrific Crimes 00:23:39 Failures in Accommodating Mental Health in Prisons 00:27:27 Uncovering Connecticut's Controversial Cases 00:31:26 The Division in Public Opinion: CEO Case and Societal Instability 00:35:17 The Struggles and Injustices in Civil Rights Cases 00:39:14 Alleged Police Misconduct in Waterbury Trial 00:43:04 Lawsuit Against City Over Workers' Compensation 00:46:43 Prison Leans and Legal Battles in Connecticut 00:50:36 Jury Selection in Civil vs. Criminal Cases 00:54:37 Challenges with Prosecutorial Power and Jury Influence 00:58:28 Challenges in the Criminal Justice System 01:02:15 Advancing Yourself Beyond Chess Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attorney Alex, welcome to Locked In Man. I appreciate you coming on. Reach now. I think you reached out to me on TikTok. I did. Thank you for having me on. I'm very excited to be here. Yeah, and you're from Connecticut. You have your own law firm in Connecticut? Yes, yes. I grew up here in Connecticut. I went to law school here, got my law degree from Yale, and now I have my own law firm.
0:22.5	That's awesome. Where do you grow up in Connecticut? Madison. I know Madison. Yeah. One of my
0:27.4	business partners lives there now. Yeah, it's a very nice town. Went to Daniel Hand High School in Madison.
0:33.9	Graduated, went to Boston University, worked for a judge in Washington, D.C., and then went to Yale Law School.
0:40.1	So you knew you were going to become a lawyer your whole life?
0:43.2	Well, I was in the debate team in college, and that was like lawyer training grounds.
0:49.9	I was a national debate champion in college, so I was on my way.
0:55.0	I was on my way from 19 years old to be a lawyer for sure.
0:58.9	And a trial lawyer, I'm assuming the debate team prepares you for?
1:03.2	It prepares you to argue.
1:05.0	Yeah, constant arguing, for sure.
1:08.2	What do your parents do for work?
1:09.7	My father's a physician. He's a radiologist. He's still
1:12.7	working in Connecticut. And my mother is retired. She was a teacher. She was a therapist.
1:21.1	She's currently on the Fair Rent Commission in New Haven where she knocks the landlords down a peg, which is pretty nice. She's
1:30.6	a radical fair rent commissioner. So it's my parents too. Was anyone in your family in law enforcement
1:37.2	or the criminal justice system? No, no, no law, no lawyers, no law enforcement. Yeah, at all.
1:44.8	Interesting.
1:45.9	So what about, you know, being a lawyer interested you?
1:49.6	I know you said about the debate team, but was there anything more than that?
1:52.4	I really like politics.
1:54.5	I was really into politics, like a political junkie as a kid.
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