I am Ryan McKnight. I'm Kara Santa Maria. I am Christopher Smith. Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. This is

Naked Mormonism. The Serial Mormon History Podcast. Joseph Smith has been on the run from the law since 1839.

But more recently, he'd been hiding out since he was fingered as a primary suspect in the

Lilburn Boggs assassination attempt.

Now he had been to court and was granted his writ of habeas corpus, but his legal troubles were far from over.

I wanted to get a bit of a more objective take on Joseph Smith's legal sphere in 1843 here.

So I've invited illustrious host of the opening arguments podcast as well as proprietor of the law offices of P. Andrew Torres.

Andrew Torres, thank you so much for joining us and welcome.

Hey, Bryce, thanks for having me on.

This was super fascinating because, as you know, I practiced law in the 21st century and not the 19th.

So this is a super interesting question to

try and tackle. More than anything, I wanted you to come on here to fact check me and

hopefully give us a little bit of a forecast of what Joseph Smith's legal troubles look like

moving forward because two episodes ago, we covered the 1843 January trial

wherein he was being tried on whether or not he would be granted a writ of habeas corpus.

But obviously that was, you know, we came down to the ruling on that case that the court did have jurisdiction

and that they would indeed grant his writ of habeas corpus. But I kind of want to go through the

legal procedures of why they were making the arguments the way that they were and what they were,

what the Attorney General of Illinois was trying to do in order to get

Joseph Smith extradited.

So I'm hoping you can shed a little bit of light on this situation.

After reading the court document itself, what kind of struck you from it?

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