The Best of 2022: Plea Bargains Creating A Criminal Underclass w/ Dan Canon; David Feldman Dispatches From London
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
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🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
It's Day 4 of the Best of 2022! Here's Emma speaking with Dan Canon, civil rights lawyer and professor at the University of Louisville, to discuss his recent book Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class. Then, David Feldman of The David Feldman Show gives a dispatch to Sam and Emma from London, just after the Queen died!
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday December 29th, 2022. |
| 0:11.4 | My name is Sam Seater. |
| 0:12.7 | This is the five time award winning majority report. |
| 0:15.4 | We are broadcasting live to tape steps from the industrial ravage Gwannis Canal in the |
| 0:21.3 | heartland of America downtown Brooklyn USA. |
| 0:27.2 | On the program today, Emma. |
| 0:30.2 | Yes, I interviewed Dan Cannon, civil rights lawyer and professor at the University of |
| 0:38.8 | Louisville, author of the book, Pleading Out, How Ple bargaining creates a permanent |
| 0:43.9 | criminal class. |
| 0:44.9 | This is one of my favorite interviews of the year and I'm glad people submitted it for |
| 0:48.7 | best of. |
| 0:50.2 | It's the sheer number of people who are funneled into a plea bargaining system where they |
| 0:57.6 | might have better chances not taking a plea but that there's an entire incentive structure |
| 1:05.4 | that despite their guilt or innocence pressures people into that system and really why lawyers, |
| 1:12.9 | why judges, why they like it and why it's really not in your benefit. |
| 1:17.6 | It's one of my favorite discussions of the year so I'm glad this made it. |
| 1:21.3 | Excellent. |
| 1:22.3 | Of course, Thursday's known throughout the majority report universe is the day that the |
| 1:29.0 | show becomes the Emma-Geordie report. |
| 1:31.3 | Emma-Geordie report. |
| 1:32.3 | Emma-Geordie report. |
| 1:33.3 | Emma-Geordie report. |
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