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The Dershow

Kim Potter Committed No Crime

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K 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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