Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily's The Sidebar, taking you inside the courtrooms

of high profile and notorious cases from across the country.

I'm your host, Joshua Ritter, I'm a criminal defense lawyer based here in Los Angeles

and previously an LA County prosecutor for nearly a decade.

We're recording this on Tuesday, June 21st, 2020 to do.

And today we are joined by Judge Ashley Wilcott, a child welfare specialist, trial attorney,

judge, legal analyst, and daily host on court TV.

Ashley, thank you so much for joining us again, it's a pleasure to have you back.

Always happy to be with you, thank you.

You come on with court TV and I just love talking to you about these major cases, so thank

you.

Oh, fantastic.

Well, this, what we're going to be talking about today are a lot of cases that I know you've

been following pretty closely on your show.

So I'm sure folks will be very interested to hear some of your thoughts on these.

So let's jump right in.

The first one is about the romance novelist Nancy Crempton Brophy was sentenced to life

for murdering her husband.

This is at a Portland organ, Nancy Brophy, a self-published romance novelist who once

wrote an essay titled Get This, How to Murder Your Husband was sentenced to life in prison

for the murder of her husband, Daniel Brophy.

Daniel was gunned down at the Oregon Culinary Institute where he was a beloved teacher

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