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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 167 minutes
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0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that. |
0:04.8 | Opinions. |
0:05.7 | All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law. |
0:09.7 | Sensitive topics are discussed. |
0:11.8 | Discretion is advised. |
0:13.8 | So as you know, it's time for closing arguments. |
0:15.8 | And when I was a trial lawyer, I never liked it when just before closing arguments. |
0:21.1 | Just before I stood up, the judge would say, jurors, remember, closing arguments are not evidence. |
0:26.3 | But it's true. |
0:27.7 | Closing arguments are not evidence, the lawyers aren't witnesses. |
0:31.2 | And because they're not evidence, I need to put away notebooks because you can't take notes |
0:35.3 | on them. But the reason it used to bother me is because |
0:41.0 | I sensed that it made it sound like they're less important than anything else in the trial, |
0:45.5 | and they're not. It's certainly a very important part of the case. And we've all noticed that |
0:50.6 | you've paid very close attention to this case, and we know that you'll do the same to the closing argument a couple of things I want to say and |
0:58.1 | you'll hear more about this in greater detail when I give you the charge first is |
1:02.2 | you folks are the fact finders so it's what you find from the testimony your |
1:08.3 | memory of the testimony this has been a long trial but your memory of the testimony not this has been a long trial, but your memory |
1:11.7 | of the testimony, not the lawyers and not mine. So if the lawyers or I say anything that doesn't |
1:17.5 | square with your memory, it's your memory that serves. Secondly, there are very important constitutional |
1:23.9 | rights that I hope that you understand a constitutional |
1:28.3 | concepts that you need to understand first again the burden of proof in this case is proof beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty |
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