What Happens When an FBI Agent Investigates a Friend?
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
OA1212 - What’s a cop to do when he stumbles onto a crime, and the evidence points to someone he knows all too well? In today’s deep dive, friends become suspects, concerned parents become FBI agents, and laptops become lost jungle detritus. This criminal case out of the US District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands (a US territory in the Pacific) may not have reached the Supreme Court, or have any particularly important precedent, but what it lacks in prestige it makes up for with a fact pattern seemingly written by a law professor specifically to test your knowledge of criminal procedure and evidence. Come for the caper, stay for the OA midterm!
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U.S. v. Weindl, (D.N. Mar. Is. 2012)
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| 0:00.0 | If this were a law school exam, I think if you assessed it either way, the point would be what argument you make. |
| 0:08.6 | It's a tough one. |
| 0:17.5 | This is actually an interesting pushback to people who say that cases like Miranda and cats are going to destroy the justice system. |
| 0:24.1 | There's still enough to convict. |
| 0:25.4 | Justice was still done. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm Matt Cameron, and with me is Janessa Seymour, and I do not know the first thing about what we're talking about today. This is a first. I've never gone in this cold to anything. I've kept you in the dark. |
| 0:46.2 | So what are we talking about today, Janessa? We are talking about a case that has no precedential importance and will not affect anything in the future, I bet. |
| 0:57.8 | Perfect. |
| 0:58.2 | And is from the middle of nowhere. |
| 1:01.2 | Specifically where? |
| 1:02.1 | This is from the Northern Mariana Islands. |
| 1:05.0 | Not a jurisdiction I've had any contact with or any reason to cite ever before. |
| 1:08.5 | Sounds nice. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah. This is a territory of the United States, |
| 1:12.7 | a Pacific Island. I would love to visit. A group of Pacific Islands. It falls within the Ninth |
| 1:17.9 | Circuit to whatever extent that will matter for our precedent here. And the reason I bring this one up |
| 1:24.2 | is this case reads like a law school exam. |
| 1:29.3 | Awesome. |
| 1:30.1 | Every possible fact that you could imagine comes up for, if you were studying for either |
| 1:38.8 | criminal procedure, an evidence class, it feels like a test. |
| 1:47.9 | We covered in a couple of episodes leading up to this, in episode 1,190 and 1,192, we did quite a bit on Miranda and Miranda and when those |
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