Kim Potter Committed No Crime
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to help Carolyn to turn around. |
| 0:13.3 | Carolyn? |
| 0:22.6 | As you can see, we're having some technical difficulties. |
| 0:26.0 | It's President's Day. |
| 0:27.9 | I guess President's always late for things, so it's President's Day, and we're starting |
| 0:33.8 | a little late today. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:35.8 | We're having all kind of problems with the computer, the computer rebooted, and I don't |
| 0:40.2 | know anything about computers. |
| 0:42.2 | Fortunately, I have a brilliant son and a brilliant wife who know more about computers. |
| 0:47.0 | I also have grandchildren who probably know more than anybody else about computers. |
| 0:51.0 | But here we are. |
| 0:53.6 | And today I am outraged. |
| 0:57.7 | I have for the past 60 years of my life fought for the rule of law, fought for the Constitution. |
| 1:06.6 | And the rule of law, if it means anything, it means that a person cannot be convicted |
| 1:11.6 | of a crime unless that person violates a statute. |
| 1:18.0 | Thomas Jefferson put it very nicely many years ago when he said a person can't be convicted |
| 1:22.8 | of a crime unless the statute is so clear that if a person reads it while running, he |
| 1:28.6 | can understand it. |
| 1:30.6 | Well, I taught criminal law for 50 years, and I do not understand how Kim Potter, the police |
| 1:37.5 | officer from Brooklyn, Minnesota, could possibly be convicted of any crime and could possibly |
| 1:45.2 | be sentenced to two years in prison before I get to why there's no crime. |
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