Doing Justice Excerpt: “Long Shot Justice”

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🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The fifth episode of Preet's new narrative podcast Doing Justice, an adaptation of his bestselling book, is out today! In this excerpt, former SDNY prosecutor Tatiana Martin and NYPD Detective Sean Butler built a federal case against the attackers of SueAnn, a sex worker who testified against her assailants. NOTE: This episode contains graphic depictions of violence and sexual assault and may not be suitable for all listeners. Listen to the full episode for free here: cafe.com/doing-justice-podcast/episode-5-long-shot-justice Click here to subscribe to Doing Justice on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/doingjustice Click here to subscribe to Doing Justice on Spotify: spoti.fi/3rhiMUM Purchase the paperback of the bestselling book that inspired the podcast, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law: doingjusticebook.com Doing Justice is produced in collaboration with Transmitter Media. This episode was written and produced by Shoshi Shmuluvitz. We had production help from Jessica Glazer. Our editor is Sara Nics and executive producer is Gretta Cohn. The executive producer at Cafe Studios is Tamara Sepper. And the chief business officer is Geoff Isenman. The reenactments of SueAnn’s testimony were voiced by Erin Nicole Lundquist. Meral Agish fact checked this episode. And Hannis Brown composed our original music and was our mix engineer for this series. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, pre here.
0:03.0	Doing justice is my new narrative podcast based on my book and brought to you by Cafe Studios,
0:07.5	the home of Stay Tuned.
0:09.2	It explores cases from the unique perspective of prosecutors grappling with urgent legal,
0:13.2	ethical, and moral questions.
0:15.5	This is an excerpt from the fifth episode.
0:17.8	You can go listen to the full episode now for free.
0:20.8	Search for doing justice and subscribe wherever you're listening now.
0:29.8	Butler spent the next couple of weeks coming up with a plan.
0:33.6	This case was already dead on the state level, but what if it could become a federal case?
0:39.2	Robbery, rape, assault?
0:41.8	These are all state crimes, but there are exceptions.
0:45.4	Like if an assault occurs on federal land inside of a national park, then it would be a federal
0:50.1	crime.
0:51.1	Or if a robbery interferes with interstate commerce, that's doing business between
0:54.8	different states, then that robbery can become a federal crime.
0:59.6	In other words, let's say someone robs a corner store in New York, and the milk that
1:04.2	deli sells comes from a farm in New Jersey.
1:07.2	And some of the money that was stolen from the till was the proceeds from that New Jersey
1:11.1	milk.
1:12.1	Believe it or not, that affects interstate commerce.
1:15.4	Butler had worked on a few cases like that with my office SDNY, the federal prosecutor's
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