Steve Romines

The Matt Jones Podcast

Matt Jones

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Matt Jones Podcast welcomes on Steve Romines, a longtime lawyer, legal expert, and friend of KSR, to break down all the legal implications of the last three weeks of protest and his analysis of the Breonna Taylor and David McAtee cases.Highlights: What it's like to watch the ongoing protests through the eyes of an attorney The lasting implications of police brutality Why do black Americans and the poor get "screwed" in the criminal justice system? Explaining the ins and outs of the Breonna Taylor case How Romines would charge the officers in the case as a prosecutor The presence of good and bad apples on the police force As a lawyer, what was Romines' reaction to the George Floyd video? Representing the family of David McAtee What happened the night McAtee was killed? What policies would Romines put in place? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was gambling in Havana.
0:17.0	I took a little risk.
0:25.0	Said lawyers, guns and money. Get me out of this.
0:27.0	Hey, everybody to episode 79 of the Matt Jones podcast happy to be joined well first of all I'm back in
0:36.9	Kentucky and we're gonna have this week hopefully have my friend Bobby Bones, I'm going to hopefully take that tomorrow.
0:45.4	So probably only have two this week.
0:47.0	Dan Orlovsky got too busy for me. So hopefully we'll do hit show with him next week.
0:51.9	But we are happy to be joined by Steve Romines the lawyer
0:57.2	extraordinary in the city of Louisville and the defense attorney that I always say if
1:02.4	I would ever get charged with something
1:03.8	God forbid that serious I'm gonna have Steve defend me he's been on here a couple
1:09.4	times with us in the past Steve how are you I'm good Matt how are you? I'm good, Matt, how are you?
1:13.0	Doing well.
1:13.5	Now, I want to give a little background for folks.
1:16.3	People sort of know who you are who've listened to this.
1:19.3	But with all that's going on, part of why I
1:21.5	wanted to bring you on is to talk about a lot of the
1:24.3	issues that in terms of the criminal justice system that have come up in the
1:28.6	last few weeks and then specifically you represent the family of David McAtee that's the the owner of the barbecue restaurant who was killed during the protest and we'll get to that in a minute but let me start with this because you have been
1:46.1	You've been in the criminal justice system your whole life as an attorney since you've been practicing law
1:52.1	You've seen these protests I mean you've been practicing law. You've seen these protests.
1:54.2	I mean, you've seen a lot of the stuff
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