♦ Show Topic: Justice at Trial: Courtroom Battles & Groundbreaking Cases
Guest: Attorney, Lecturer, Writer – James J. Brosnahan – in an ‘in-depth’ discussion with Host & Producer, Mary Kay Elloian, Esq., on Jim’s sixty plus years of experience trying and winning high profile civil and criminal cases – all of it outlined in his groundbreaking new book ‘Justice at Trial.’ From prosecutor to defense attorney, from Harvard Law to Berkeley Law, Jim Brosnahan made his mark from Boston to California – and internationally.
Discussion: Working as Assistant to Special Prosecutor on Iran Contra – ‘Weapons for Hostages’ under President Ronald Reagan, to his riveting testimony in the Confirmation of former US Supreme Court Associate Justice – William Rehnquist nominated to Chief Justice – to cases involving the FBI searches and seizures made on a US Citizen. Having tried over 150 jury cases during his career – made him the right choice to teach “oratory” at Berkeley Law, California.
Justice at Trial – Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases is a must read for every fledgling lawyer, and everyone interested in how our justice system works. A captivating perspective from the inside out.
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Interestingly enough, no one seems to talk about the elephant in the room: that is, how both presidents’ family members – Trump and Biden – may have used their positions of privilege to strike deals that could possibly earn them large amounts of money. From the outset, it looks like…
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August 25, 2022 -The question remains, Was Donald Trump violating the Espionage Act and other statutes by wrongfully retaining important government and national security documents classified or not? On all fronts, it doesn’t look good for the former president, but like everything and anyone else, he is innocent until proven…
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Dr. Jennifer J. Freyd, author of Blind to Betrayal and researcher of psychological techniques used by abusers to subjugate their victims. From the abuses of the Catholic Church clergy on young children to the family and the workplace – doctor Freyd exposes the horrors of abuse, the coping mechanisms of those abused, and the methodologies that can be employed by society, by families and litigators to help bring these predators to justice and make them accountable. A riveting discussion on the ‘art of betrayal’ and the way that society, businesses and even the nation – can help heal the oppressed through employing ‘Institutional Courage.’
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August 28, 2021 – For those who have known betrayal and abuse, it is often a hard-fought battle within one’s own psyche – not to mention the court of public opinion. As standard practice in American culture, assault victims – predominantly women and children, are routinely disbelieved, ostracized, or both…
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August 6, 2021 – The former Archbishop of Washington and cardinal – expelled from the church and laicized in 2019 – was “criminally” charged last week with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a teenage boy in Massachusetts decades ago, all according to a court filing by the…
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April 21, 2021 – It is now clear, the jury found Derek Chauvin Guilty on All Counts: convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The jurors deliberated a little more than 10 hours over two days before coming to their decision. The Charges The second-degree murder charge…
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Clandestine Clergy: Politics and Policies on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church – Attorney who was depicted in two Award-Winning Movies “Spotlight and Our Fathers” tell of his ordeal bringing priests of the Boston Archdiocese to justice for molesting young children. Catholic Priests who ‘preyed’ on children while the Boston Archdiocese & the Vatican looked the other way. How these priests befriended the families – to enable to gain access and abuse with impunity. The story is about real-life cases of priests who pain the children suffer that lasts a lifetime – many times resulting in substance abuse and suicide. Attorney Garabedian explains how he brought pedophile priests to justice to help give abuse victims closure and to bring them dignity stolen from them and covered up by the very people that should have protected them – the church.
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March 5, 2021 – The Legal Edition has released programming on child sexual abuse by clergy in the Catholic Church entitled, ‘Clandestine Clergy: Politics and Policies on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church.‘ Program guest is noted Boston attorney, Mitchell Garabedian, who brought the first Archdiocese of Boston pedophile priest…
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How Reconstruction was a new beginning for the formerly enslaved but the fight for equal justice had just begun – including the right to vote, be free of poll taxes, and the continuing struggle for women and notably black women to vote. Discussion of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, Fifteenth Amendment allowing ‘men’ to vote – and the long awaited Nineteenth Amendment allowing ‘white’ Women to Vote – Culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 taking away all impediments of voting to All Women and Men of Voting age and eliminating literacy tests and poll taxes to voting. Discussion of 19th century presidents who kept slaves during and while in office in the White House is also discussed.
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