Legal Talk: McMichael’s Conviction, Crumbley Parent’s trial, and Curtis Reeves verdict— TCD Sidebar
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🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of True Crime Daily The Sidebar Podcast: Ashley Willcott, judge and legal analyst for Court TV, joins host Joshua Ritter to discuss the cases making headlines from the perspective of two seasoned trial lawyers.
They discuss the McMichael’s federal hate crime conviction (2:19), the verdict of the three other officers found guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights (9:19), and the ongoing trial of the Louisville officer charged in relation to the Breonna Taylor raid (15:17). Plus, their takes on Ethan Crumley’s parents standing trial (20:49), and the Curtis Reeves verdict (25:44).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily's The Cybar taking you inside the courtrooms and trials |
| 0:05.1 | of high profile and notorious cases from across the country. I'm your host Joshua Ritter. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm a criminal defense lawyer based here in Los Angeles and previously an LA County prosecutor |
| 0:15.7 | for nearly a decade. We are recording this on Monday, February 28, 2022. |
| 0:22.3 | And today we are excited to be joined by Judge Ashley Wilcott, a certified child welfare law |
| 0:27.8 | specialist who is a top analyst and consultant in the legal field as well as a commentator and host |
| 0:33.6 | on court TV. Welcome Ashley. No, thank you, Joshua, for having me. I'm so happy to be on with you. |
| 0:40.4 | Today we're going to be covering high profile cases, making headlines across the country. And |
| 0:45.2 | Judge Ashley, you cover these cases as closely as anyone covering them on a daily basis with your show. |
| 0:51.1 | So I'm sure listeners are really going to be interested to hear your perspective. But before we |
| 0:55.9 | jump in, could you tell us a little bit about your background and how you got started? Absolutely. |
| 1:01.6 | So I am in Atlanta, Georgia. I went to law school here, married somebody from here. So I'm still |
| 1:07.6 | here, but gratefully so I will tell you that Joshua, I've been very lucky in terms of yes, I work |
| 1:14.5 | hard, but I've ended up in jobs that I have really loved and been passionate about. So I was a |
| 1:20.8 | specialist assistant attorney general for many years doing trial work, representing the |
| 1:26.5 | child welfare agency in court. And I knew in eighth grade I wanted to be a trial lawyer. So it suited |
| 1:32.5 | me perfectly, but I then got the opportunity to be the child advocate for the state of Georgia |
| 1:39.5 | under governor deal. I did that. I then was a judge in the cab county, Georgia and have transitioned |
| 1:46.5 | to now used to be a legal analyst at different times, but now a full-time legal analyst. And I |
| 1:53.5 | am a self-proclaimed trial nerd, and I absolutely love doing it. And really talking about all the |
| 1:59.3 | legal issues and constitutional issues that we see in trials every day. Fantastic. Well, we've got |
| 2:06.0 | some good ones. It's been busy a couple of weeks. The first case we thought we'd jump into is |
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