Steve Fishman & Dax-Devlon Ross on "The Burden"

"The ​law ​was ​my ​girlfriend. ​I ​had ​to ​love ​it. ​It ​was ​my ​only ​way ​to ​freedom." - Derek Hamilton

We’re joined on the Starline by a pair of award winning writers & investigative journalists. One owns a cocktail bar, the other enjoys tequila after justice. They’ve teamed up for a podcast about a corrupt cop and the wrongfully convicted who brought the corrupt cop to justice. We welcome Steve Fishman + Dax-Devlon Ross co-hosts of “The Burden”.

Friends, let’s go Beyond the Mic. As you examined this, why was this story the one that needed to be told?

Which of the wrongfully convicted by Detective Scarcella story’s touched you the most?

It’s time for the Rockin’ 8, 8 random questions, answer with the first thing that comes to your mind. There is no Pressure. Two guests so we’ll swap questions.

1. Steve, favorite drink at your cocktail bar?

2. Dax-Devlon, favorite interview from your book “Beat of a Different Drum”?

3. Steve, would you rather have a building or statue named after you?

4. Dax-Devlon, who’s the one person you’d like to change places with for a day?

5. Steve, what is your favorite cookie flavor?

6. Dax-Devlon, what’s the quickest way to your heart?

7. Steve, best place to think at the Brown campus?

8. Dax-Devlon, favorite course at Rutgers?

Steve, what does the word justice mean to you?

Dax-Devlon, when you are done with this story, what’s the next one?

Steve Fishman loves a Senor Hemingway, quickest way to Dax-Devlon Ross’s heart is dinner with his wife & they want you to listen to “The Burden”. Steve, Dax-Devlon, thanks for taking the time to talk with us.

And that my friends is a Beyond the Mic Short Cut.