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The Defense.

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A show about the people who stand with the accused

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Rumbull Strip, I'm America Heilman.

0:01.6

Today I am running a show I made years and years ago.

0:05.7

It's one of my favorite shows.

0:08.1

I'm working currently on a show that's going to take some time

0:10.6

to figure out.

0:12.1

I'll be back as soon as I can, but in the meantime, I hope that you will enjoy the defense. Welcome.

0:19.0

I dreamed about it. I dreamed about the trial.

0:22.0

Dreamed about, you know, neuroscience, neuropathology,

0:29.2

you know, and then, uh, and the prospect of trying another one at that point was so exhausting as to make me want to go sell cars or something.

0:38.0

But then, you know, something happens and you read a case and you're like cops did something ridiculous and

0:45.2

pisses you off and you're like or the other side's being unreasonable and

0:49.2

will not settle a case and it's like well we're back to it so in a couple weeks I'll be back to it.

0:55.1

Yeah.

0:56.1

That's Dan Cedden he's a defense attorney in Chelsea Vermont.

1:00.6

People love defense attorneys if they think the defendants are innocent. People

1:06.0

love to hate defense attorneys if they think the defendants are guilty. There are five attorneys

1:11.4

in this show and I worked for all of them as a private investigator and even I wondered how they do this job

1:17.5

Defense attorney spent all day thinking about crime

1:20.6

crafting a story about the crime imagining the feeling and the lot crime,

1:23.0

imagining the feeling and the logic and the moment of the crime,

1:27.0

and then going home for dinner.

1:29.0

One defense attorney friend of mine told me

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