Midwife acquitted in infant’s death; Police officer convicted of manslaughter – TCD Sidebar
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🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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In this episode of True Crime Daily The Sidebar Podcast: Vinnie Politan joins host Joshua Ritter to break down the biggest cases making headlines across the nation. They discuss the fallout for Samuel Bankman-Fried following the collapse of FTX (2:59), Megan Thee Stallion’s testimony (10:19), a judge’s decision to acquit a self-proclaimed midwife (15:46), and the manslaughter conviction of Aaron Dean (24:52).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily's The Sidebar celebrating 50 episodes of taking you |
| 0:16.4 | inside the courtrooms of high profile and notorious cases from across the country. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm your host Joshua Ritter. I'm a criminal defense lawyer based here in Los Angeles |
| 0:25.3 | and previously an Ellie County prosecutor for nearly a decade. You can find me at JoshuaRitter.com. |
| 0:31.5 | We are recording this on Friday, December 16, 2022. In this week's episode, continuing fallout |
| 0:37.8 | from the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX with the recent arrests and unsealed |
| 0:43.5 | federal indictment of the company's founder. Plus a hip hop stars emotional testimony in an assault |
| 0:50.4 | case unfolding in Los Angeles, as well as breaking news in the bench trial of a self-proclaimed |
| 0:56.2 | midwife facing charges for the death of a newborn. And finally, the conviction of Aaron Dean, |
| 1:01.0 | a police officer charged with the 2019 shooting that tragically took the life of Atatiana Jefferson. |
| 1:08.0 | Today, where you're joined by former prosecutor who has made his way into television, |
| 1:12.1 | you may know him from court TV. Please welcome Emmy Award-winning legal journalist, |
| 1:17.5 | Vinnie Politan. Welcome back, Vinnie. And thank you so much for joining us on the 50th |
| 1:22.0 | episode of The Sidebar. Yeah, this is pretty special to be invited for the big 5-0. |
| 1:30.7 | I feel good. Thanks so much for having me. No, we're so grateful to have you. And it is |
| 1:35.6 | pretty amazing that we're at 50 episodes now. For listeners who missed the last time that you were |
| 1:41.1 | on, please tell us a little bit about your background and the current work that you do today. |
| 1:45.2 | All right, so I was I was born. No, I'm not going to go back to that part. But I was a lawyer, |
| 1:53.0 | right? I was a prosecutor. Then I went into the private practice and then I came back to my first |
| 1:58.0 | love, which was television. And I ended up at court TV. And it's been amazing. It's been absolutely |
| 2:04.1 | amazing to be first as a correspondent traveling around the country, covering the nation's biggest |
| 2:09.1 | trials, then as an anchor as well. So now I'm the lead anchor at court TV. I've been there so |
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