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Bonus: Subpoena, Schmubpoena Nov 02, 2019

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Not only does Donald Trump's personal lawyer maintain that the president doesn't have to comply with a federal subpoena -- he's argued that Trump couldn't be investigated or prosecuted even if he really did shoot someone on Fifth Avenue.

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#110 From Solitary to the Street Oct 29, 2019

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The U.S. uses solitary confinement like no other country in the world, and nowhere more than the Supermax prison in Colorado. Solitary damages prisoners' minds, and the U.N. has called it torture. What happens when prisoners leave Supermax?

Keegan Hamilton is a senior reporter at Vice News.

From 'The Alcatraz of the Rockies' to the Streets Vice 8.28.19
Doing Time in Solitary Is Unimaginably Hard. Getting Out Might Be Harder. Slate 2.3.16
video: Lawyer on Lawyer violence

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Teaser: Bernie Means It Oct 26, 2019

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Sen. Bernie Sanders was decades ahead of the Democratic party on the core ideas that now define progressive consensus on criminal justice reform. Now that the times have caught up with him, what is Bernie proposing? And can he succeed?

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Bonus: The Confluence, October 1 Oct 22, 2019

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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court declines to hear a challenge to the state's death penalty law. Dave provides analysis on 90.5 WESA's The Confluence.

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Teaser: Four More Years...? Oct 19, 2019

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Donald Trump's reelection campaign isn't exactly touting his criminal justice platform, but it's not hard to read the tea leaves on what a second Trump term might look like.

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#109: Keeping Up with Synthetic Drugs Oct 15, 2019

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The law makes heroin, cocaine, and meth illegal according to their defined chemical structures. But what about drugs made from synthetic compounds, which can be changed with a tiny tweak in a clandestine lab? Can the law just say "close enough?"

Jordan Rubin is a legal editor at Bloomberg Law and co-host of the Cases & Controversies podcast.

"America's Secret Drug War," August 2019

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Bonus: The War on Supervised Injection Sites Oct 13, 2019

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Supervised injection sites provide a venue where addicts can safely use intravenous drugs under medical supervision. The practice saves lives, but in the midst of a deadly opioid epidemic the Justice Department is going after injection sites using laws designed to shut down crack houses.

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Teaser: Mayor Pete's Police Problem Oct 10, 2019

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Pete Buttigieg entered the Democratic presidential primary race last spring with a message deliberately light on policy specifics. Since then he's rolled out a robust criminal justice platform, part of a broader package of social reforms -- but will it be enough to win over African American voters skeptical of his record as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, where Buttigieg presided over a string of race-inflected law enforcement scandals?

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Bonus: The Confluence, September 16 Oct 08, 2019

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Dave explains how prosecutors use "drug delivery resulting in death" charges in opioid overdose deaths on WESA's The Confluence.

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Bonus: Botham Jean's Killer Convicted Oct 05, 2019

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Amber Guyger, the off-duty police officer who murdered Botham Jean in his Dallas apartment, has been found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison. The trial's resolution -- and surprising displays of emotion in the courtroom -- have sparked almost as much reaction as the crime itself.

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