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The Counsel

Third Degree Sample: After the Chauvin Verdict

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig and NYU Law student Safeena Mecklai discusses her live reaction to the Chauvin verdict, and its greater implications for policing in America.  Join Elie every Monday and Wednesday on Third Degree for a discussion of the urgent legal news making the headlines.  Third Degree takes on a bit of a different flavor on Fridays, when Elie speaks with a rotating slate of America’s most impressive law school students, exclusively for members of CAFE Insider. Become a member at half the annual price with special code DEGREE at cafe.com/insider.  Elie’s analysis doesn’t end with Third Degree.Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring articles by Elie, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges: cafe.com/article/the-stay-tuned-newsletter/ Third Degree is brought to you by CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network.  Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio and Music Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producer: Noa Azulai.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey everyone, it's Ellie here.

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Each Friday on the third degree podcast, I speak with a rotating cast of some of the nation's top law students about breaking legal news, compelling cases, and what it means to lead a life in the law.

0:43.7

Today, we're sharing a sample from my conversation with NYU law student, Safina Meckle.

0:48.7

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price. Just head to cafe.com slash insider and enter the special code degree. That's cafe.com

1:02.7

slash insider and the discount code degree. What was it like for you, actually, the moment that you learned there was a verdict and how you

1:16.4

took in that verdict?

1:17.8

You know, it was weird because it was a moment in which I really missed being on campus.

1:23.0

It's been a year, obviously, of remote learning.

1:25.3

And it was one of the moments where I really missed the absence

1:28.1

of being surrounded by my community and my friends. I was lucky because now that I'm fully vaccinated,

1:33.8

I was able to fly home to be with my parents. So I'm home with my parents. I was watching TV on my

1:40.6

iPad and kind of wandering around the house waiting for the verdict to come out while frantically

1:45.8

texting everyone that I knew about the verdict. And, you know, looking back at the text messages

1:51.4

during the day, I got a couple questions from friends about when do we think it's going to come out.

1:56.1

Then we were waiting. And then one of my friends texted me while we were waiting for the verdict,

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