The Trial Series: Ryan Duke’s Defense + Q&A
Up and Vanished
Tenderfoot TV
4.5 • 63.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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For our last weekly episode until Ryan's trial, we sat down for a bonus interview with Ashleigh Merchant, plus asked Dr. Maurice Godwin and Philip Holloway to answer some of your questions.
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| 0:58.1 | Paying's out working on a new project, so I'll be helping to facilitate today's Q&A, |
| 1:02.3 | along with Marie Squadwin and Philip Holloway. Thanks for sending in so many great questions. |
| 1:07.2 | We answered as many as we could. Before we get into your questions though, |
| 1:11.1 | we have a surprise guest. Last week we had the opportunity to sit down with Ryan's |
| 1:15.6 | defense attorney, Ashley Merchant, to get her perspective. We wanted to play some of that |
| 1:20.4 | interview for you now before the trial begins in April. Because this is an active case on the |
| 1:26.1 | verge of going to court, there were a lot of things she couldn't comment on, but that's to be expected. |
| 1:33.1 | I can't talk about motions in the respect of trying to influence the outcome. I can't |
| 1:40.1 | argue outside a court. What we filed this motion, I think it should be granted. I can tell you |
| 1:44.6 | that a lot of what we've done is try to level the playing fit. I am Ashley Merchant and I am a |
| 1:51.4 | shareholder at the Merchant Law firm and I represent Ryan and Alexander Duke. I think that anytime you're |
| 1:57.7 | going to take a case pro bono, you need to be morally invested in the case, if that makes sense, |
| 2:04.4 | you need to believe in it because if someone goes to work, they're going to work because that's how |
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