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Legally Brunette

Legally Brunette: The Parkland Shooting with Judge Liz

Legally Brunette

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Emily and Shane are sitting down with Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who presided over the Parkland school shooter’s trial in 2022.

Judge Liz faced controversy after this trial due to alleged biases towards the prosecution and unfair treatment of the defense. However, she’s here to set the record straight and tell us what led to this apparent “unethical” behavior.

Plus, we’re discussing Nick Reiner and the sudden loss of his legal team, as well as the Diddy trial and where the prosecution went wrong…

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0:00.0

Hi, guys. Welcome to another episode of Legally Brunette. I will be your host today, Emily Simpson with...

0:07.0

Shane.

0:08.0

First of all, if you guys haven't listened to our last episode, it was on Jody Hilda Brandt, which, if you remember, she had to do with the Ruby Frankie Child Abuse case.

0:16.4

And a lot of you DM'd me. I know, I thought it was interesting. Do you remember when we were talking and Ruby Frankie's YouTube channel was called Eight Passengers? And then you made a comment, why is it called Eight Passengers? Because someone has to be driving. Should be a driver in seven passengers. Right. So I had several people DM me that said they felt as if it was the eight passengers and God was driving. Oh. So anyway, I don't know. In this case, it might have been Satan that was driving. Maybe, but I just thought I would relay that to you because a lot of people heard that. And then that was kind of the comment overall. That's speculation. We don't know that that was the thinking. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I think that's how people interpreted it as that they were the eight passengers and they were a very religious family. And so God was like guiding them. I interpret it. She's an idiot. Right. Exactly. And she's dumb. Okay. as proven by her behavior. All right, let's move on. We wanted to do an update on Nick Reiner.

1:11.4

Also,

1:11.7

not only did you guys DM me a lot about the last case we did, the Jody Hildebrandt and

1:16.3

Ruby Frankie situation, but as you all know, my obsession with Alan Jackson runs deep.

1:23.6

So when you all saw the news that he withdrew from the Nick Reiner case, I got, Wot, Wamp, Womp, Womp. I got tons of DMs where people were like, did you see this? What's going on? Are you going to talk about it? Did you see this? So anyway, so let's talk about it. Nick Reiner's arraignment has been postponed once again after Alan Jackson quit moments before the scheduled hearing.

1:45.1

So this happened last Wednesday.

1:46.7

Jackson informed the court that he was stepping away from the case and would no longer represent

1:51.2

Reiner who was charged with murdering his parents.

1:54.5

Jackson told the judge, we would ask to withdraw as counsel of record.

1:59.3

We have no choice but to withdraw and ask to be relieved.

2:03.0

He didn't announce why. He just announced that he's removing himself.

2:06.3

Well, he had some things to say, but there is no clear-cut reason. A lot of people speculate.

2:11.3

But, you know, to me, it's interesting that Reiner will now be represented by Los Angeles County Deputy Public Defender

2:17.6

Kimberly Green and the judge approved the substitution. And now the arraignment is rescheduled

2:23.2

for February 23rd. I think my personal opinion is, I think it had to do with money. Because

2:30.4

that was my question all along. What else would it have to do with well some

2:34.2

people he's definitely not disgusted by crimes he's been around it no but there's some we'll talk

2:38.7

about some speculation that some other attorneys and money money talks i my initial reaction

2:45.2

when alan jackson first took the case was who is paying this bill yeah because i would assume would assume, and I am probably correct, that his retainer would be seven figures

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