Understanding the Rittenhouse Verdict

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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On today’s episode, David and Sarah take a deep dive into the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict with Damon Preston, Kentucky's Public Advocate and a criminal defense attorney with almost 30 years of experience. They discuss self defense law, the difference between the Rittenhouse trial and the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's killer, and the ways in which the criminal justice system could be reasonably reformed. Also, David exults in Mississippi's stinging defeat at the Supreme Court as the court turned back the Magnolia State's greedy attempt to keep Tennessee from drinking water from its own wells.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isker and we are going to
0:10.0	cover a lot about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict today. We've got a great guest for you. His name is
0:18.2	Damon Preston. He's a friend of mine. He's as I'm going to go through his bio in a bit. But he's the
0:23.5	Kentucky public advocate. In other words, he runs the public defender's system for the entire state
0:28.5	of Kentucky and unknown to y'all. He's a repeat guest of advisory opinion. No, no, actually.
0:35.3	He's a repeat guest originally of the dispatch podcast recorded a whole podcast with him. Sarah
0:40.8	and I did about what the, you know, Rittenhouse verdict might be and then the Rittenhouse verdict
0:46.1	comes out and to have a whole podcast about what it might be when we knew what it actually was.
0:51.9	Not not not great podcasting content. Sarah. So so we punted Damon to today. I think you're going
1:02.7	to really enjoy the conversation that we had reflecting on the verdict and what it means
1:08.1	are talking about the the trial of Ahmed Arbery's killers. And so that's coming in a moment.
1:15.2	But before that, Sarah, my goodness, the Supreme Court kind of let us all down a little bit today,
1:22.8	didn't it? So we were told on Friday that there would be an opinion hand down day on Monday. This
1:29.4	got everyone chittering that we were going to either get the execution case that you and I have
1:38.4	talked about about having the pastor in the in the chamber out of Texas or we were going to get
1:44.3	the Texas SBA abortion case. Both of those were on an emergency posture. The court was under
1:50.9	some time constraint, though not actually any time constraint, but it felt that way. And I thought
1:56.3	that that was all an extremely silly conversation because clearly this was going to be the Texas
2:01.6	abortion case. Obviously, I had predicted that it would happen right before Thanksgiving. And here
2:07.4	we are right before Thanksgiving. Little cul-de-sac by the way, David, I am actually back in
2:14.2	Houston in my childhood home for Thanksgiving recording this podcast surrounded by a shrine
2:21.1	that I have built to myself. I have Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy here.
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