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🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In this episode of True Crime Daily The Sidebar Podcast: Bob Motta joins host Joshua Ritter to break down the biggest cases making headlines across the nation. They discuss defense attorneys for Jussie Smollett appealing the “Empire” actor’s conviction, the murder trial for an alleged obsessive ex, and attorneys objecting to cameras in the courtroom during Bryan Kohberger’s trial for the slaying of four University of Idaho students.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the sidebar presented by true crime daily taking you inside the |
| 0:15.3 | courtrooms of high profile and notorious cases from across the country. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm your host Joshua Ritter. I'm a criminal defense lawyer based in Los Angeles and |
| 0:23.7 | previously an LA County prosecutor for nearly a decade. You can find me on Instagram and Twitter |
| 0:29.2 | at JoshuaRitteresq or at JoshuaRitter.com. We are recording this on Friday, September 14, 2023. |
| 0:38.4 | In this week's episode, an obsessed man faces murder charges for the death of his ex-girlfriend, |
| 0:43.9 | a high profile Hollywood sex therapist, in a case where prosecutors alleged he broke into her |
| 0:50.0 | home, strangled her, and eventually threw her over a third story balcony to her death. |
| 0:55.9 | In other news, attorneys hammer out the issue of whether or not to allow cameras in the court room |
| 1:01.4 | for the highly anticipated murder trial of Brian Coburger, the man accused of slaying four |
| 1:06.9 | university of Idaho students. But first, an appeals court is now considering the case of actor |
| 1:13.2 | Jesse Smollett following his conviction for staging a hate crime in a hoax that made national |
| 1:20.7 | headlines. Today, we are excited to be joined by Bob Mata, a criminal defense attorney and |
| 1:25.3 | legal analyst. Bob is also the host of defense diaries, a true crime podcast you can listen to wherever |
| 1:31.4 | you get your podcasts. Bob, welcome back. Thanks, Joshua. I'm thrilled to be back at a good time |
| 1:38.1 | last time. Yeah, we're thrilled to have you. And for those listeners who didn't get a chance to hear |
| 1:42.7 | you the first time around, tell us a little bit about your your practice. What have you been up to |
| 1:46.8 | lately? So long time criminal defense guy, 20 plus years trial lawyer, always been on the defense |
| 1:53.6 | side of things. My father was a defense attorney. So I come from a very short line of defense |
| 1:58.9 | attorneys. I did that for for a long time. A couple years back, I decided my wife, who is my |
| 2:05.6 | law partner and a pit bull defense attorney herself, was kind enough to let me step out of the |
| 2:11.2 | practice and start a podcast, which I did because I told her, look, I'm going to go all in on this |
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