";s:4:"text";s:4231:" In this instance, eyes attached to a guy who gets along well with Russ Bensing.But personalities aside, Russ later told me, it's also the timing. A detective will come by the bar tomorrow and look at the surveillance tape. And he said, touche. Anna lets it go. Because men are dogs. Episode 1: The Alibi Lyrics. Everyone around here, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, even defendants, has internalized this idea that a misdemeanor is of little consequence. Minneapolis or Atlanta or Pittsburgh or Sacramento. Kristin talked to at least three different officers that night, including Sergeant Timothy Gill, the cop who got hit in the face. I remember one judge told me—and this is—one judge told me, in this county, innocence is a misdemeanor. In his heart of hearts, Russ thinks the real reason the prosecutor's office is pursuing this case against Anna is because there was a cop involved, yes, but also because she's already got a record. The ones we arrest and punish, the ones with the stink, they're slightly different species, with senses dulled and toughened.They don't feel pain or sorrow or joy or freedom or the loss of freedom the same way you or I would. A pathetic little sponge on a stick for a toothbrush. Russ said there's a way he can petition the court to waive the fees if Anna can't pay. For a bar fight.
Then he'll cite the case law they need or the new ruling out of the Eighth District they hadn't heard about.
Original audio files can be found on Producing the transcripts subreddit during the original release period of the podcast are based on the Serial Podcast produced by This American Life and WBEZ To become a felon for this? The defense attorney came to me at the first pretrial and said, you're going to dismiss this. Instead, I decide it's my duty to break the tension by saying the lamest thing I possibly can. You know, why are you taking up the court's time and not pleading this out to a misdemeanor? So then he wouldn't stop, so she got pissed off. She's wearing librarian glasses, skinny jeans, boots, and a T-shirt that fits her just so. If the prosecution can't prove its case, they should drop it, not simply shrink it until it looks harmless enough to swallow.What's more, if Anna does plead to this charge just to make her case go away, the judge understandably is going to treat her as if she did, in fact, assault a cop. It doesn't—roll down her window just two inches. One that prows this courthouse and throughout our criminal justice system. That's how they do it in Cuyahoga County.
Now I keep my head down to avoid the looks the black people are probably giving each other. All it means is that Russ will track down Anna's prosecutor, and they'll have a quick conversation about the case.Anna doesn't even get to be there for it.
He had been working down the block and had come in the bar to pee. That's a lot. He tells me, today, his plan is to go big. He says, I mean, I would say that's adequate. And anyway, Jennifer said, at the end of the day, the difference between the initial offer of misdemeanor assault and the final offer, disorderly conduct, meh. No felonies, but she's got some misdemeanors. She looks like an attorney, which she later told me was the look she was going for. Judge Clancy used to be a prosecutor. She created the mural for this episode. We all, as—there was about four or five people that said, we never seen that. But that's Anna's word over a cop's.
OK. I'm going to be willing to bet that I can do a better job of researching the law than you can. I doubt he's in real danger of reprisal. A bar fight walks into a Justice Center.
Another decision made. Nobody wants to arrest the gal. He's been doing this a long time.
She says, that's him right there in the red jacket. The police were wearing body cameras that night in the bar. Not that there are a lot of clean records in the Justice Center. It was too upsetting.She teared up a couple of times, thinking about what a horrible year it had been. And Kristin coughs it up. So, you're on a jury, you see that. But he doesn't.
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