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John and Craig lawyer up with criminal defense attorney Ken White (aka Popehat) to look at legal scenes in movies and TV, and separate the tropes from the truth.

How do lawyers actually prepare a case? Will they meet a client in jail? Do they need to gather evidence themselves? And what happens when they go to trial? What are the rules for examining witnesses? How often do people represent themselves in court? And do judges really bang their gavel like that?

In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig invite Ken to imagine traveling somewhere worse than prison — the beach.

Links:

Ken White on BlueSky, Facebook and Threads
Serious Trouble podcast
The Popehat Report by Ken White
Hello, My Name Is Stephen Glass, and I’m Sorry by Hanna Rosin for The New Republic
LibreOffice
Sovereign Citizens Getting Owned
The Rest is History podcast
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Outro by Lou Stone Borenstein (send us yours!)
Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.

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