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I'm Mike Pesca. As I was reporting yesterday, the Supreme Court thus far has not issued any

six three decisions. I mean, they've issued a few six three decisions. It's just that the six

three decisions that they've issued haven't broken down with the six conservatives aligning

against the three liberals. But it happened. It happened today. In fact, today, although the most

important cases of the term were not decided, there were a few six three decisions. Only one of them,

however, was six conservatives against three liberals. And the case in question was Jones V Hendrix.

And you can see why the three liberals would vote the way they did. There's a fella. He's sitting

in prison, Marcus DiAngelo Jones. He's there on a gun charge. And a few years ago, the Supreme

Court rules that circumstances around his gun charge are such that he shouldn't be in prison. So,

in fact, he was innocent to underline just how in fact, he was innocent a couple times in oral

arguments that didn't just say that he was factually innocent, that it just amend that or clarify

that I'm saying he was factually innocent. They went so far as to add another adjective, a rhyming one,

actual factual innocence. And Justice Jackson was asking, can I clarify what you mean by actual

factual innocence? It means to cut through a lot of Argo Bargo. It means the guy was innocent.

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