Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily's The Sidebar taking you inside the courtrooms

of high profile and notorious cases from across the country.

I'm your host, Joshua Ritter, I'm a criminal defense lawyer based here in Los Angeles,

and previously an LA County prosecutor for nearly a decade.

You can find me at JoshuaRitter.com.

We are recording this on Wednesday, December 21, 2022.

A lot to cover in this week's episode, it's going to be a good one, and we start with

the sentencing of a former police officer after a manslaughter conviction for an on-duty

shooting.

Plus a settlement agreement reached between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp that may finally end

their legal battle, as well as charges brought against the father of the alleged Highland

Park shooter after sponsoring his son's gun license.

And finally, the conviction of Harvey Weinstein on three of seven possible counts in the

former moguls' sexual assault trial.

Today is our last recording of 2022, so we were very excited to have Joshua Schiffer join

us, a former public defender, and current private defense attorney with vast legal experience

trying cases from municipal courts all the way through all stages of the federal system.

Joshua, welcome back, good to see you again.

Great to see you too, and thank you for the honor of the invitation, especially on a

week where so much is going on.

It is all getting packed in here at the end of the year.

It is funny how it seems like everything just kind of closed itself out right at the

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