The Defense

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In cases where a defendant seems unjustly accused, the defense attorney is our hero. But if they seem guilty...or if it’s an especially violent crime, we look at these lawyers and wonder…how can they do that? This is a show about the people who stand with the accused. You’ll hear five perspectives on the art of criminal defense. You'll hear about what drew these attorneys to criminal law, preparing for trial and cross examinations, and how this work colors their views on our state of Vermont. And you'll hear some great stories.

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0:00.0	This is Rumbel Strip America Heilman.
0:02.0	I dreamed about it.
0:03.3	I dreamed about the trial.
0:05.0	Dreamed about, you know, neuroscience, neuropathology.
0:09.3	You know, and then, uh uh and the prospect of trying another one at that point was so
0:16.8	exhausting is to make me want to go sell cars or something but then you know
0:22.0	something happens you read a case or something
0:23.7	you read a case and you're like cops did something ridiculous and pisses you off
0:29.1	and you're like or the other side's being unreasonable and will not settle a case.
0:33.4	And it's like, well, we're back to it.
0:36.0	So in a couple of weeks, I'll be back to it.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:39.0	That's Dan Cedden.
0:41.0	He's a defense attorney in Chelsea, Vermont.
0:43.9	People love defense attorneys if they think the defendants are innocent.
0:48.3	People love to hate defense attorneys if they think the defendants are guilty.
0:53.0	There are five attorneys in this show,
0:54.8	and I worked for all of them as a private investigator,
0:57.6	and even I wondered how they do this job.
1:00.5	Defense attorneys spend all day thinking about crime, crafting a story about the crime,
1:06.0	imagining the feeling and the logic and the moment of the crime, and then going home for dinner.
1:12.0	One defense attorney friend of mine told me
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