S10 Ep.4: Show Time at Rice Street

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

True Crime, Politics, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The fourth episode of this season’s Breakdown podcast by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recounts a busy week where lawyers met with prosecutors to get bonds for their clients, including a $200,000 bond for former President Donald Trump. “Show Time at Rice Street” of Breakdown’s Season 10 – “The Trump Indictment” – also covers one of the 19 defendants charged in the racketeering case after another surrendering at the Fulton County jail on Rice Street. The episode also includes a roundtable discussion with two Breakdown regulars – former Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter and New York attorney Nick Akerman who is a former federal prosecutor who successfully used racketeering indictments against crime families. You can download the Breakdown podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or your favorite podcasting platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's worth knowing which is really going on.
0:04.0	This is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
0:08.0	Previously on Breakdown.
0:14.0	So, Fanny Willis uniquely has captured the national sweep from Trump on down,
0:21.0	but also everything that happened in one of those states,
0:24.0	as a matter of fact, the number one state that was the target of the alleged coup plotters,
0:29.0	Georgia. So, it is perhaps the most important of them all,
0:36.0	although the other cases are also extremely important.
0:40.0	I am being prosecuted for being his lawyer.
0:43.0	They want to put me in jail for acting like a lawyer,
0:45.0	and they want to put him in jail for asserting his First Amendment rights.
0:49.0	That's what used to happen in Communist China.
0:53.0	It used to happen in Communist Russia or Nazi Germany, not America.
0:57.0	I think, you know, all of us have First Amendment rights,
1:00.0	and certainly us as lawyers, we have rules of ethics that we need to follow,
1:04.0	including zealously representing our clients.
1:07.0	Those rules, though, stop filing false or fervilous claims,
1:12.0	or filing claims based on facts that you know to be false.
1:17.0	So, everybody has the opportunity for free speech,
1:20.0	but there are limitations in order to protect citizens,
1:24.0	as well as just the public order.
1:27.0	In this episode, we're going to talk about another busy week here in Atlanta.
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