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Frozen Truth

Season 2, Episode 3 – Prosecutorial Discretion

Frozen Truth

Scott Fuller

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7652 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

No charges have been filed in connection with Ayla Reynolds’ disappearance.

Wisconsin defense attorney Jessa Nicholson Goetz joins me on this episode to discuss the legal issues surrounding Ayla’s case.

Jessa has been voted by her peers at being among the top 5% of criminal defense attorneys in Wisconsin. Check out her podcast, “Getting Off”, which examines true crime from a legal perspective.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on Frozen Truth.

0:04.0

20-month-old Ayla Reynolds vanished from her bedroom in Waterville.

0:07.6

The amount of blood found by police inside the home seems to have been enough to lead police

0:12.2

to suspect that foul play was involved, but not necessarily enough for them to immediately assume

0:17.1

that Ayla was necessarily dead.

0:19.0

With the intense media scrutiny that this case did receive.

0:22.8

Murphy custody details, to say the least, right here.

0:26.0

Trista and Justin had an agreement that Justin would be taking care of Ayla while Trista

0:30.7

was in rehab.

0:31.8

Trista Reynolds and her supporters chased Justin DePetro through the streets of Portland today.

0:36.4

The father of missing Waterville toddler, A. La Reynolds, has been arrested.

0:40.0

Justin says that he, quote, smoked the lie detector test.

0:44.2

I mean, these aren't criminal masterminds. So for them not to crack, what exactly is it that they know?

0:59.7

We break laws all the time.

1:05.8

For most of us, that'd be local ordinances probably, but some state laws, and possibly some federal laws here and there.

1:13.1

Mostly mundane things probably like jaywalking or making an illegal left turn or failure to signal while you're on a bicycle or something. Every one of us has probably been guilty of breaking some of those

1:18.5

laws at least one time or another. If not for some of us, once or twice a day. And like every other

1:24.2

state, the state of Maine has some pretty seemingly useless laws on the books.

1:29.8

It's against the law in Maine, for example, to step out of an airplane while it's in the air.

1:35.4

That is some common sense legislation right there.

1:38.4

You can be fine for keeping your Christmas decorations up past January the 14th.

1:42.6

And in the state's capital, Augusta, it's illegal to walk

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