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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:06.1	The courtroom isn't just about justice. It's about power and money and some truly bizarre loopholes.
0:10.7	I'm Michael Foote. And I'm Melissa Malbranche, and we've got a brand new show called Brief Recess, Illegal Podcast.
0:15.5	Every week, we talk about wild tales from court, trials gone wrong, and cases and rulings that shape our world.
0:39.2	Today we're going to be talking about stolen antiquities, all the weird things Melissa found at in a state sale, the crazy conversations I had with the bouncer and J.K. Rowling. We make the complicated clear and the serious, surprisingly fun. From the exactly right network, new episodes of Brief Recess drop every Thursday. Watch Brief Recess on YouTube. Listen to Brief Recess on the IHeartRadio app.
1:02.0	Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to my favorite murder, the minisode.
1:03.8	Do you read you your stories?
1:06.3	It's incredible how you send them to us.
1:07.3	You just keep doing it.
1:08.2	Do you want to go for?
1:08.4	Sure.
1:09.1	Okay.
1:11.3	Oh, yeah, we're going to do a special New Year's one.
1:29.4	Guys, 2025, wrapping up, how do you feel? You got your presents. You've eaten a bunch of food. Hopefully, you're grateful for some things. Hopefully, you have hope. Hopefully, there's stuff to work toward. Right. We're all trying here. Yeah. that's all you can do. That's right. Let's start with a fucking horrible one, shall we?
1:32.9	A snow-covered churchyard and a hometown that changed the law.
1:38.1	All right, ladies, I'm from a sleepy little town on the outskirts of Birmingham, England.
1:42.3	It says crime-free as anywhere can be and generally considered very safe.
1:46.7	And then it says in parentheses, I mean, apart from the garden down the road that was recently dug up to discover a body and potentially solve a 32-year-old cold case and a
1:51.3	fantastic I-survive story about a woman eight months pregnant who was stabbed 24 times in
1:55.8	our town center by your ex-partner and survived to testify and jail that motherfucker.
2:00.3	But all those are stories for another day.
2:02.3	What?
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