The Fireball | Kristen Gibbons Feden on Justice, Advocacy, and Taking Down Cosby
Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Kristen Gibbons Feden is a former assistant district attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, renowned for her work on high-profile cases, including the Bill Cosby trial. With a BS in neuroscience from Lafayette College and a law degree from Temple University, Kristen has dedicated her career to advocating for victims of sex crimes, domestic violence, and elder abuse. She is known for her unwavering commitment to justice and her ability to give a voice to those who have been silenced.
Listeners can learn more about at her website, and on IG @kgfeden
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In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, sits down with Kristen Gibbons Feden, a former Assistant District Attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, best known for her work as the prosecutor in the Bill Cosby trial. They discuss Kristen’s legal career, her fight for justice in sex crimes and civil rights cases, and her advocacy for survivors of sexual violence. Kristen shares her personal journey, highlights from her notable cases, including eight-figure verdicts, and her approach to making sure survivors' voices are heard.
Show Notes:
- (0:00) Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum
- (0:30) Sheryl introduces guest, Kristen Gibbons Feden to Zone 7
- (4:00) Using your voice - effective advocacy
- (8:00) Kristen discusses getting two 8-figure judgements in one day
- (14:45) The revival window
- (18:30) Rape is rape
- (19:30) The Bill Cosby case
- (22:00) Building rapport with survivors
- (24:45) The Cosby trial preparation and strategy
- (27:30) “I heard him laugh”
- (29:00) The closing argument
- (33:30) The importance of partnership
- (36:30) “Today in science class, I learned every cell in our entire body is replaced every seven years. How lovely is it to know that one day I will have a body that you have never touched?” -L.M Juvenile Victim
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all, we got somebody with us tonight. |
| 0:12.2 | She is lightning in a bottle. |
| 0:15.6 | I had a chance to be with her at the Hamptons, Who Done It, and when I tell you, not just from the stage, but in the hallway, at dinner, she is just a light. |
| 0:29.6 | You cannot ignore this woman. |
| 0:33.6 | She is a former assistant district attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:39.3 | She is known as the person that when it comes to sex crimes and civil rights and domestic violence and elder abuse, |
| 0:50.3 | she's who you go to. |
| 0:52.3 | She got her BS degree from Lafayette College and her law degree from Temple. |
| 0:58.5 | She grew up in New Jersey, and let me tell you something, she's got that Garden City attitude |
| 1:04.4 | baby. She ain't scared of nothing. And if you need somebody to fight for you, this is your girl. Now, I just said |
| 1:14.7 | real quick, oh, she got her BS degree at Lafayette, and I moved on. It was in neuroscience. So when I tell |
| 1:23.4 | you, she's brilliant. I mean she's brilliant. And it wasn't enough that she had to study neuroscience. |
| 1:30.6 | Then she had to go become a financial analyst. Then she had to become an attorney. So again, |
| 1:36.4 | there's all kind of things we can talk to her about that she could, you know, pontificate on as long as |
| 1:42.9 | she wants to. She is best known for her work as the |
| 1:47.8 | prosecutor on the Bill Cosby case. Now let me tell y'all what she did. That first time, |
| 1:53.8 | that jury was deadlocked. She left the DA's office, went to a fantastic private law firm. |
| 2:02.3 | When they brought the case back, she went back as a special prosecutor. |
| 2:06.4 | And child, she gave a closing statement that was legendary. |
| 2:12.9 | And of course, that resulted in a conviction. |
| 2:15.7 | And we're going to get all into that in a minute. |
| 2:21.0 | She has won many awards, but just one I will tell you all about. |
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