Tanner v. United States
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Fun party idea: convene 11 strangers, get zooted at lunch, deal some weed, do a little coke in the bathroom of a courthouse, then determine whether or not you're going to put a human in a cage for a substantial chunk of their life.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll hear argument first this morning in number 86177 |
| 0:04.2 | Anthony R. Tanner and William M. Conover petitioners versus the United States. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey everyone, this is Leon from Viasco and Prologue Projects. |
| 0:17.0 | On this week's episode of 5-4, Peter, Rianne and Michael are talking about Tanner V. United States. |
| 0:24.0 | It's a 6th Amendment case, but whether or not you're right to a trial by jury has been compromised if... |
| 0:29.0 | The jurors were consuming large amounts of alcohol, were utilizing and dealing in marijuana and were ingesting cocaine throughout the course of a complex criminal proceeding. |
| 0:42.0 | In a 5-4 decision written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the court proclaimed that the proceedings of a jury room are so sacri-sanked that even if more than half the jury is high and drunk, their verdict must stand. |
| 0:54.0 | This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have infested our law like lanternflies have infested New York. |
| 1:12.0 | I am Peter. I'm here with Michael. |
| 1:15.0 | Hey everybody. And Rianne. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello, what is a lanternfly like a lightning bug? |
| 1:20.0 | They're a big problem in like Philly and New York right now. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh, they're the ones that like the Philly local government was like on site, you fucking kill these things when you see this. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, so they're like indigenous to China every like decade or so. |
| 1:34.0 | Some insect that has no natural predators makes its way over from China and just like ruin some ecosystems. |
| 1:43.0 | And they're all over New York right now and like I had to change my route to the grocery store because there is a building that is like teeming with them. |
| 1:52.0 | Like a almost a skyscraper and when you walk by it, like the ground is littered with their corpses. |
| 1:59.0 | One fell into my like collar. |
| 2:02.0 | Oh God. Oh no. |
| 2:05.0 | And I had to try to act like I was not absolutely losing my mind. |
| 2:10.0 | I was like, oh, one of them fell. I guess I'll just casually get this out. |
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