Headlines end. The details begin. Episode 33 of The Particulars covers two new murder trials, a closed case that finally has an answer, and a fight over what a juror is allowed to say after the fact.

Trial Watch — Ohio v. Caleb Flynn: Flynn is on trial in Miami County, Ohio, accused of killing his wife, Ashley, in their Tipp City home and staging the scene to look like a break-in. Flynn has pleaded not guilty and told police an intruder was responsible. We pulled the actual Miami County court record — case number 26 CR 00088 — rather than relying on secondhand summaries.

Legal Minute — Opening Statements Are Not Evidence: An opening statement is a roadmap of what a side expects the evidence to show. It is not testimony, not an exhibit, not proof. We walk why that distinction matters specifically in the Flynn case, where some of the most dramatic material reported so far came from the lawyers' own descriptions of alleged messages.

Evidence of the Night — The Alleged Flynn Messages: According to WLWT, prosecutors told jurors Flynn allegedly wrote about wanting to avoid getting caught, and allegedly exchanged over 100,000 messages with the woman he was having an affair with. We walk the full evidence ladder — authentication, admissibility, purpose, context, and weight — before any of that becomes proof of anything.

Trial Watch — Florida v. Tomasz Kosowski: Dr. Tomasz Kosowski, a plastic surgeon, is representing himself in a death-penalty murder trial in the disappearance and alleged killing of attorney Steven Cozzi, whose body has not been recovered. We pulled the Pinellas County docket directly, including the Faretta hearing confirming Kosowski's competency to waive counsel. Self-representation doesn't mean the rules disappear — a pro se defendant still operates inside the rules of evidence and procedure, and the State still carries the full burden of proof.

Case Follow-Up — Marly Kinney: We previously covered Marly's disappearance and death at Grayson Lake while the cause and manner were still unknown, and we said plainly that we didn't know the answer. This week, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife announced her death was ruled accidental, with a Carter County grand jury declining to bring charges related to her death. We break down exactly what "cause of death" and "manner of death" mean — and why a homicide classification and a murder charge are not interchangeable terms.

Red Flag — A Juror Interview Is Not a Court Finding: New public statements from the Clancy trial's holdout juror conflict with what the jury foreperson and other jurors have said. We're direct that neither account becomes a judicial fact just because someone said it publicly — a statement is an account, a filing is a request, and an order is what the judge actually rules.

Also tonight: what we're watching ahead of Richard Allen's oral argument on September 21st, and a federal watch update on United States v. Matthew Farwell.

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Headlines end. The details begin.

Episode 32 of The Particulars asks a deceptively simple question:

A rule exists. But was it actually followed?

Tonight we use one framework across very different records:

RULE → SAFEGUARD → RECORD → ACCOUNTABILITY

Because a written policy is not proof of compliance. A safeguard existing on paper is not proof that it operated. And when something is missing from a record, that absence is something to investigate — not a blank space to fill with theory. That framework is established at the beginning of the broadcast and drives the episode.

Trial Watch — Lindsay Clancy: Attorney Martin Weinberg entered a limited appearance for the purpose of litigating a forthcoming double-jeopardy motion following Clancy's mistrial. We separate the filing that exists from the motion that has not yet been filed, revisit the manifest-necessity question, and explain why the court record—not the surrounding public commentary—will determine what happens next.

Trial Watch — Matthew Farwell: With the federal trial approaching, we look at the September pretrial rulings allowing the defense to introduce evidence concerning Sandra Birchmore's mental-health history and prior suicidal ideation while permitting prosecutors to refer to Birchmore as a victim. We also discuss the competing positions surrounding her death and what evidence we want to see tested at trial.

Legal Minute — Policy ≠ Practice: We go directly into the federal court record in McClain v. Ferguson, involving the death of pretrial detainee Ta'Neasha Chappell. The written medical policies required documentation, escalation procedures and emergency response—but testimony described a different actual practice. We walk the missing contemporaneous documentation, a medical-event log created after Chappell's death, and the federal court's summary-judgment ruling while making an important distinction: a ruling that evidence can go to a factfinder is not a verdict.

Evidence of the Night — Flock Safety: We move from written policies to technological safeguards. Flock systems create audit trails showing searches and stated reasons for access. We discuss national scrutiny of automated license-plate-reader technology, an Indiana criminal case involving allegations of 2,055 searches of the same plate, and the larger question: if an audit trail is the safeguard, who reviews it, how often, and what happens when the record raises questions?

We also examine the developing Fourth Amendment questions surrounding networked location and ALPR technology, including Chatrie v. United States and the pending Schmidt v. City of Norfolk litigation. The episode does not reduce that developing constitutional issue to “Flock is constitutional” or “Flock is unconstitutional”; instead, we look at use, scale, retention, access controls and implementation.

Red Flag — “After Reviewing the Complete Investigation”: A complete review of a file and a complete historical record are two different things. We explain why investigators should test institutional records against independent sources—video, audio, electronic logs, medical records, communications and witnesses—and why a discrepancy is a reason to investigate, not permission to invent an explanation.

The method isn't designed to find wrongdoing.

It's designed to find out what the evidence actually supports.

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Chapters
00:00 Open — Policy ≠ Practice
01:12 Trial Watch: Lindsay Clancy — The Double-Jeopardy Fight
05:32 Trial Watch: Matthew Farwell — 19 Days to Trial
14:51 Legal Minute: Policy ≠ Practice
25:33 Evidence of the Night: Flock Safety
28:54 Flock & the Fourth Amendment
30:28 Flock: Audits, Access Controls & Oversight
38:12 Surveillance Technology & Privacy
42:07 Red Flag: “After Reviewing the Complete Investigation”
45:11 Close — What Does the Evidence Actually Support?

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Headlines end. The details begin. Episode 31 of The Particulars runs on four words: what can you prove?

Current File — 12 Deepfake Domains Seized: The Manhattan District Attorney's Office announced it seized 12 domain names pursuant to a court order, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into websites allegedly used to disseminate non-consensual AI-generated sexual deepfakes. The DA says pre-existing photos and videos of approximately 1,200 real people — primarily women, including public-facing actors, politicians, athletes, musicians, advocates, and influencers — were allegedly used with AI tools to create these images. We're direct about what a seizure is and isn't: a court-ordered domain seizure is not a conviction, and we're not converting an active investigation into a finding of guilt.

Legal Minute — Real Person, Fake Image, Real Harm: Using Indiana Evidence Rule 901 as our framework, we walk why authenticating a file and proving the content is true are two completely different legal questions — a court can conclude a video is exactly the file it's claimed to be without anyone concluding the event it depicts actually happened.

Red Flag — "We Can't Accept That": Preservation, discovery, production, and subpoena are not interchangeable words, and an institution telling you "that's just policy" isn't the same as citing an actual rule. We walk a real, recent Indiana Supreme Court case on evidence preservation and spoliation to show the difference between institutional confidence and an actual citation.

Follow-Up File — Lindsay Clancy: New reporting has raised questions about the mistrial's holdout juror, including a reported restraining order and pending eviction matter during jury service. We're clear that questions about jury selection are not the same thing as an established finding — not disqualification, not misconduct, not bias, not entitlement to a remedy. President Trump has responded publicly to the earlier pardon request; the jurisdictional issue remains what we explained previously, since this is a Massachusetts state prosecution, not a federal one. September 29th remains the date to watch.

Trial Watch — Richard Allen, One Week to Oral Argument: With oral argument now one week away, we lay out four questions to ask about every issue the attorneys raise — because finding an error and winning an appeal on it are not the same thing.

Evidence of the Night — The Audit Trail: What actually has to be established before a digital image, video, or file becomes usable evidence — and why "there's a picture" stopped being a satisfying answer a long time ago.

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Chapters
00:00 Merch Launch: The First Casewalker Chronicles Collection
02:16 Current File: 12 Deepfake Domains Seized
06:19 Legal Minute: Real Person, Fake Image, Real Harm
11:29 Red Flag: "We Can't Accept That"
18:25 Follow-Up File: Lindsay Clancy, Questions Are Not Findings
19:56 Trial Watch: Richard Allen, One Week to Oral Argument
24:32 Evidence of the Night: The Audit Trail
26:40 Close

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Headlines end. The details begin. Episode 30 of The Particulars asks one question all night: when someone in authority says "that's just how we do it," according to what?

Current File — JonBenét Ramsey and the CBI DNA Scandal: Former Colorado Bureau of Investigation analyst Yvonne "Missy" Woods was sentenced September 8th to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to felony misconduct in her forensic DNA work. Woods was employed by CBI beginning in January 1994 — meaning she worked for the agency when JonBenét Ramsey was murdered in Boulder in December 1996. We're direct about what that timeline does and doesn't establish: being employed at the same lab during the same era is not the same thing as proving Woods personally handled, tested, or reported the Ramsey evidence. We have not found reliable documentation that she did, and we're not going to tell you that she did.

Legal Minute — Law, Policy, Procedure, Habit: Those words get treated like synonyms. They aren't. An agency can set a policy stricter than the law requires; a habit can form around a procedure — and none of that changes what the actual controlling law says.

Evidence of the Night — What Makes a Transcript Official: A person can absolutely type up their own version of a recorded court proceeding. That doesn't make it the same thing as an official, certified court transcript. We walk the real distinction between a working copy, an aid, and the certified record — and why courts generally treat the underlying recording as controlling when the two disagree.

Red Flag — "We've Always Done It This Way": Five words that used to sound reassuring. Time doesn't convert custom into law, and repetition doesn't create statutory authority. This isn't an anti-institution argument — it's a pro-competence one.

Chapters
00:00 Cold Open: According to What?
01:48 Current File: JonBenet Ramsey and the CBI DNA Scandal
06:14 Legal Minute: Law, Policy, Procedure, Habit
09:38 Evidence of the Night: What Makes a Transcript Official
17:14 Red Flag: We've Always Done It This Way
19:23 Audience Talk: Have You Been Told That Was the Law?
34:11 Close: Read the Damn Documents

Audience Talk: We open it up to the chat — has an agency, office, or officer ever told you something was "the law" when it was really just policy, custom, or habit?

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Headlines end. The details begin. In Episode 28 of The Particulars, one case ends without a verdict, one moves toward trial, and we take a third all the way back to where it began.

Trial Watch — Clancy: Friday ended Lindsay Clancy's first trial without a verdict. After seven days of deliberation, Judge William Sullivan declared the jury deadlocked and a mistrial — after an emergency defense request to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court over a dispute involving the apparent holdout juror was denied. No conviction, no acquittal, no final verdict. The charges remain pending, and the case returns September 29th for status, trial assignment, and a Rule 25 motion.

Trial Watch — Farwell: Former Stoughton Police Detective Matthew Farwell's federal trial is scheduled to begin October 5th. This week, the court ruled the defense may introduce evidence of Sandra Birchmore's mental health history, and — over defense objection — the prosecution may refer to her as a victim. These are evidentiary rulings about what each side may present to the jury, not findings about which side's theory is true.

Legal Minute — Massachusetts Rule 25: What a "required finding" motion actually asks, why it's a different question from whether Judge Sullivan personally agreed with either side, and why we're not putting a countdown clock on screen until the record tells us more.

Evidence of the Night — CLEARED, Part I: If you've followed our Delphi coverage, you know the probable cause affidavit, the confession, the trial, and the appeal. Tonight we go backward instead — to February 2017, when Richard Allen's name first entered this investigation, years before his 2022 arrest. We walk the trial testimony describing how that lead was logged, marked "cleared," and effectively lost track of a name — until it resurfaced in September 2022.

Red Flag: Tonight's flag isn't that anyone was wrongly cleared. It's that the word "cleared" can describe an alibi determination, an investigative disposition, a database status, or a clerical mix-up — and those are not the same thing.

Part II — "From Cleared to Searched" — continues this series Wednesday night.

Same-day courtroom developments and docket status reflect our own live notes, trial observation, and docket review, and have not been independently verified against a certified transcript.

⚖️ This is our opinion, our analysis — not legal advice. The presumption of innocence applies to every person discussed until and unless proven otherwise. Statements framed as "alleged" or "accused" reflect that a charge is not a conviction.

Chapters
00:00 Cold Open: Cleared
00:52 Trial Watch: Clancy's Mistrial
02:02 Trial Watch: Farwell's Trial Approaches
03:41 Legal Minute: Massachusetts Rule 25
07:12 Evidence of the Night: CLEARED Part I — Before Allen
13:37 Red Flag: One Word, Different Work
14:22 Close & What's Next

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Headlines end. The details begin. In Episode 27 of The Particulars, Lacey and Nic cover a mistrial in one major case and open the record on another.

Trial Watch — The Clancy Mistrial: After seven days of jury deliberation and seven weeks of trial, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy. A mistrial means the trial ended without a verdict resolving guilt or innocence — it is not an acquittal and not a conviction. We walk exactly what happened: a foreperson's report about a juror and the reasonable-doubt instruction, the defense's emergency petition to a single justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, that petition's denial, and the mistrial that followed. We are not identifying the juror involved, and we won't be discussing courtroom footage, seat comparisons, or online speculation about who that person is.

Legal Minute — The Emergency Petition Explained: What a single justice of the SJC can and cannot do under the court's extraordinary superintendence authority, and why Massachusetts law makes it deliberately difficult to remove a deliberating juror — even a holdout the rest of the jury disagrees with.

Red Flag — Reporting, Finding, and Opinion: A defense attorney's public statement, a district attorney's press-conference remarks, and our own opinions are three different categories of claim. We walk why none of them is a substitute for evidence.

Case File Opens — United States v. Matthew Farwell: The federal case concerning Sandra Birchmore, a 23-year-old woman who died in February 2021. We open the record as it stands one month before an October trial date: the operative federal charges, the government's theory, the defense's competing theory that Sandra died by suicide, and the evidentiary fights over what a jury will actually be permitted to hear. Every claim in this segment is sourced to specific court filings and is presented as what a party alleges or what a document says — not as our own finding about what happened to Sandra.

Legal Minute — When a Witness Can't Take the Stand: The hearsay rules and competing evidentiary doctrines — forfeiture by wrongdoing and the state-of-mind exception — that are shaping what a jury will be allowed to hear in the Farwell case.

Evidence of the Night — Document 244: A filed text-message extraction between Sandra and Farwell, read directly from the court record with full chronology, alongside — not in place of — how each side characterizes it.

Red Flag — When a Forensic Conclusion Changes: Sandra's manner of death was originally classified as suicide and was amended in 2026 to undetermined. We explain what that amendment does and doesn't establish, and why competing expert opinions on the same physical evidence is itself part of the record the parties are litigating.

Tonight's episode includes extended discussion of suicide and mental health evidence. If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available by call or text, 24 hours a day.

Same-day courtroom developments and docket status reflect our own live notes, trial observation, and docket review, and have not been independently verified against a certified transcript.

⚖️ This is our opinion, our analysis — not legal advice. The presumption of innocence applies to every person discussed until and unless proven otherwise. Statements framed as "alleged" or "accused" reflect that a charge is not a conviction.

Chapters
00:00 Cold Open: The Clancy Mistrial
02:52 Housekeeping & Show Open
04:54 Trial Watch: Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy — The Mistrial
08:08 Legal Minute: The Emergency Petition Explained
19:32 Red Flag: Reporting, Finding, and Opinion Are Three Different Things
27:12 Case File Opens: United States v. Matthew Farwell
31:24 Sandra Birchmore: The Person Before the Evidence
40:55 Legal Minute: When the Witness Can't Take the Stand
50:57 Evidence of the Night: Document 244 — The Text Sequence
59:29 Red Flag: When a Forensic Conclusion Changes
68:05 Close

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Headlines end. The details begin. In Episode 26 of The Particulars, two very different files sit on our desk tonight — one jury still deliberating, and one case you helped us choose that just had a major pre-trial development.

Clancy: A second straight day, a second impasse. Judge Sullivan gave the jury the Massachusetts supplemental deadlock instruction, commonly called Tuey-Rodriguez, and sent them back to continue deliberating. We explain exactly what that instruction does and doesn't tell us — it says nothing about the vote count, which side has more jurors, or which charge is causing the disagreement.

Follow-Up: A quick note on Duane "Keffe D" Davis, found guilty of first-degree murder in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. That file moves to its post-verdict phase — we'll bring it back when the written judgment, sentencing posture, or appeal material actually moves.

Case File Opens — People v. Fraser Bohm: You voted for this case, so tonight we open it properly. Four Pepperdine University seniors — Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir, and Deslyn Williams — were killed in an October 2023 crash on the Pacific Coast Highway. Bohm faces four counts of murder and four counts of vehicular manslaughter. We walk the July 27th fight over the murder counts, the competing phone-forensics accounts, and the pre-trial development today that pushed the trial date from September 8 to December 1.

Evidence of the Night: The phone record — a direct conflict between eyewitness testimony and digital forensic evidence, and why that conflict alone doesn't tell us which account a jury will ultimately accept.

Legal Minute: What's actually the difference between an "Allen charge" and what happened in the Clancy courtroom today? We trace the instruction's surprising Massachusetts roots.

Red Flag: A headline is not the current posture. The Bohm trial calendar moved today — we explain why a scheduling change isn't an evidentiary finding, and why we're keeping two different source descriptions visible instead of forcing them to agree.

Same-day courtroom developments reflect our own live notes and docket pulls from the day of broadcast and have not been independently verified against a certified transcript.

⚖️ This is our opinion, our analysis — not legal advice. The presumption of innocence applies to every person discussed until and unless proven otherwise. Statements framed as "alleged" or "accused" reflect that a charge is not a conviction.

Chapters
00:00 Open: Two Files on the Desk
00:52 Clancy: Second Impasse, Tuey-Rodriguez Instruction
03:31 Follow-Up: Keffe D. Davis Verdict Recap
04:17 Case File Opens: People v. Fraser Bohm
09:47 Evidence of the Night: The Phone Record
13:19 Legal Minute: Allen, Tuey & Rodriguez
15:15 Red Flag: A Headline Is Not the Current Posture
17:34 Production Note & What's Next
18:51 Close

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Headlines end. The details begin. In Episode 25 of The Particulars, Lacey and Nic bring you a verdict that dropped just 30 minutes before we went live.

Breaking: A Las Vegas jury has found Dwayne Keith "Keffe D" Davis guilty of first-degree murder in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur — nearly three decades after the shooting, and even though prosecutors never claimed Davis fired the fatal shots. Tonight we open our first full Case File: the people, the timeline, the Cadillac, and the decades of Davis's own public statements that became central evidence at his trial.

Trial Watch: Closing arguments, the jury's under-three-hour deliberation, and what the guilty verdict does and doesn't tell us about which evidence persuaded which juror.

Evidence of the Night: Davis's own words — the 2008 law enforcement interview, the Death Row Chronicles documentary, and the memoir — and the real evidentiary fight over what he said versus what could be independently corroborated.

Legal Minute: He didn't pull the trigger. So how is it murder? We break down Nevada's law on liability for a person who aids and abets an offense, and why being present or knowing about a crime isn't automatically the same as committing it.

Red Flag: Back to Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy for a myth we keep encountering — the idea that a not-criminally-responsible verdict means someone "just walks." We explain what that verdict actually means under Massachusetts law, including the commitment process that can follow it.

Clancy Case Update: As of tonight, the Clancy jury has completed roughly 16 hours and 48 minutes of deliberation across three days without reaching a verdict. They return the next morning at 9 a.m. to continue. That case remains open — we'll bring you the verdict the moment it lands.

Procedural notes on the Davis case: the gang enhancement was not decided by the jury — the state dismissed it after the murder verdict. Davis remains held without bail, with the next court date set for October 13; we are not characterizing that date as a sentencing until the court or docket confirms it. Davis stated on the record that he intends to appeal — that is not the same as a filed notice of appeal.

Same-day courtroom developments reflect our own live notes and docket pulls from the day of broadcast and have not been independently verified against a certified transcript.

⚖️ This is our opinion, our analysis — not legal advice. The presumption of innocence applies to every person discussed until and unless proven otherwise. Statements framed as "alleged" or "accused" reflect that a charge is not a conviction.

Chapters
00:00 Breaking: Keffe D. Found Guilty — Case File Opens
02:17 Case File: The People, the Timeline, the Cadillac
07:35 Clancy Update: Day 3 of Deliberations, No Verdict
08:33 Trial Watch: Closing Arguments & the Verdict
11:22 Evidence of the Night: Davis's Own Words
15:01 Legal Minute: He Didn't Pull the Trigger — So How Is It Murder?
16:41 Red Flag: What a Not-Criminally-Responsible Verdict Actually Means
20:40 Close

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Headlines end. The details begin. In Episode 24 of The Particulars, Lacey and Nic walk the Lindsay Clancy case with two different lenses — a private investigator and law student alongside a former federal agent.

Trial Watch: Closing arguments are in. After 22 trial days, Judge Sullivan has given the jury the law, and Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy now belongs to 12 jurors. Tonight is the closing argument audit — we hold each side's closing to the actual trial record, not just to how it sounded in the room.

Legal Minute: What actually happens once a jury walks into that room? We break down how deliberation really works, count by count, element by element — not the movie version.

Evidence of the Night: The jury's reported evidence request sends us back into the medication record. We separate the different medication locations, revisit the bedroom-nightstand testimony, and compare the empty prescription bottles identified in testimony with the drugs actually identified through toxicology. Then we walk the reconstructed verdict slip itself.

The Walkthrough: We build our own reconstructed verdict slip for Count One and walk it the way a juror has to — causation, intent, and premeditation as three separate questions, weighed against the evidence and the judge's actual instructions. Partway through, we each give our own prediction for how we think the jury will rule — and we land in very different places. We watched the same trial, heard the same evidence, and reached different conclusions. We explain what evidence got each of us there.

Red Flag: A jury question is not a verdict. The jury asked to review physical evidence, and people immediately started decoding what that request must mean. We also return to an investigative question we've had throughout this trial: when important information comes from a witness account, what can be independently corroborated by records, physical evidence, digital evidence, or other witnesses — and what remains an account?

As of this recording, the jury has not reached a verdict. Deliberations are ongoing. We do not know the outcome, and neither does anyone speculating online — including us.

Same-day courtroom testimony and docket status reflect our own live notes, trial observation, and docket pulls from the day of broadcast, and have not been independently verified against a certified transcript.

⚖️ This is our opinion, our analysis — not legal advice. The presumption of innocence applies to every person discussed until and unless proven otherwise. Statements framed as "alleged" or "accused" reflect that a charge is not a conviction.

Chapters
00:00 Cold Open: Closing Arguments Are In
03:12 Trial Watch: The Closing Argument Audit
12:03 Legal Minute: How a Jury Actually Deliberates
16:50 Evidence of the Night: Medication Evidence + Verdict Slip
23:27 We Walk the Verdict Slip — Victim One, Count One
42:27 Red Flag: A Jury Question Is Not a Verdict
50:02 Close

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Headlines end. The details begin. In Episode 7 of The Particulars, Lacey and Nic walk this week's most talked-about cases with a different lens — a private investigator and law student alongside a former federal agent.

Tonight's docket goes deep on the Scott Peterson habeas fight — not whether he did it, but how the machinery actually works: why almost none of his original 2004 trial attorneys are on the case today (and why that's normal, not suspicious); the "battle of the experts" and how juries are supposed to weigh competing expert testimony; the scent-dog evidence and why the real question isn't the dog but the handler's interpretation; and the legal standard for "bad lawyering" — ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington, and why it's such a high bar. We also break down what reasonable doubt actually asks of a juror. A new filing in the Gary Siders Jr. matter, revisit the two judicial admonishments from the habeas ruling, take on the Tate brothers case, and close with a callback to the Flock camera story from Episode 1.

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Chapters
00:00 Intro & Disclaimers
01:54 Since Friday: Zaire Wade Case Update
07:45 Gary Siders Jr.: Bill of Particulars Filed
09:44 Peterson Habeas: Where Things Stand
12:05 The Two Judicial Admonishments
15:24 Trial Attorneys vs. Appellate Attorneys
25:06 Battle of the Experts
36:05 The Dog-Scent Evidence
42:45 Ineffective Counsel & the Strickland Standard
1:17:47 What Reasonable Doubt Actually Means
1:27:13 The Tate Brothers Case
1:35:40 Flock Cameras Revisited (Episode 1 Callback)
1:44:58 Wednesday Tease & Sign-Off

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