🎙️ S3 EP 12 🎙️⚖️ “Justice That Works: Reynolds & Hubert on Fixing Clark County’s Courts”⚖️

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Las Vegas, Nevada, it's time for straight talk and real solutions.
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Las Vegas and Nevada, let's talk. Welcome to Talk with Conservatives.
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I'm Garland Brinkley, and I ran for Assembly District 1
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in 2022 and again in 2024. I'm a retired university professor,
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and I taught economics for like 30 years. I also
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taught epidemiology and biostatistics.
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And I'm Patricia Brinkley, and I ran for SD1 in 2024,
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and I'm an attorney at law with over 32 years
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of experience. Welcome to Season 3, Episode 12 of Talk
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Okay, this evening our two guests are candidates, of course.
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First guest is Judge Jacob Reynolds, running to retain his
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judicial office in District Court, Department 29. And our second
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guest is Alex Hubert, running for District Court in Department 21. Welcome, gentlemen.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you for having us. Appreciate it.
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Yes.
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Listeners, our call-in number is 702-221-7283. Make sure that you
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call in because this is your opportunity to ask these
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candidates who are one is a judge and the one
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is trying to reach that judgeship.
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And if you live in Clark County, you can vote
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for both of them.
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Yes.
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We're going to get to that later.
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Yes.
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But here's your chance to call in and ask questions.
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a question of a judge. So one of the comments
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we hear a lot from voters, they say that they
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do not know anything about the judicial candidates and that
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these races are presented as nonpartisans. And they want to
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know really what the candidates' backgrounds are because I get
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people asking me that. And the other thing is they
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just want to know because they don't see a lot
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of these candidates. So Judge Reynolds, what are your thoughts
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on that comment?
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I sympathize with it a lot. The first time I
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ran for judge was in 2020. I believe we had.
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I honestly believe there were over 100 judicial candidates on
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the ballot in the primary. It was just ludicrous how
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many people were running. But then you expound upon that,
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like how is an average voter supposed to understand who
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to vote for, and how are they supposed to research everybody?
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I ended up talking to people, as I do, and campaigning,
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and some people would tell me, oh, I just vote
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for who's on top.
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And it's just like, oh, geez. So how do you
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break through? How do you break through to voters like that?
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So you change your name to Brinkley?
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Something, AAA, Aardvark, something like that. So there's just this problem. And,
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you know, you're an attorney, and it's just kind of
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hard to... I think it's hard for people to know
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that they have a good attorney because they're not supervising
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that attorney at all. They just kind of have the results,
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and if something goes wrong, they go... The attorney can
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just blame the judge like, oh, the judge is crazy
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or the bad judge, whatever.
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So how do you get to it? You put information
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on your website.
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You have to raise money and try to get your
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information out. I come from a farming background. We call
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it getting your water to the end of the row.
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How do you do that during irrigation? And you just
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got to make sure the word gets passed around. So
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getting to know people, endorsements are important. People handing out
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slate cards are important. Different organizations do that. There's a
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lot of different strategies, but I'm grateful for shows like
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this that help spread the word. You kind of just
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have to take every opportunity you can to get in
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front of people.
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There's no more science to it than that, in my opinion.
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Get in front of everybody you can.
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So, Attorney Huber, your thoughts or comments on that?
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I can tell you that since this is my first
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rodeo going through the process, which I've actually enjoyed quite
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a bit. I mean, part of why I picked the
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race I did is I wanted to have the process,
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no matter how it played out, I wanted to go
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to November. So I wanted to have the life experience
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of going through all of it. And so.
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Well, excuse me, did you have a primary opponent?
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I did not. And so I'm in a race where
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it's just, I'm going, I am... My opponent, essentially, or
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I'm her opponent, is the incumbent. And so I picked
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a race where it was ensured, essentially, that I'd be
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able to go to November because so much of this
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is about the life experience. And I'm 20 years into
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my legal practice. I've been licensed 21 years. And so
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if there was a time to run, it would be now.
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So you ask about the nonpartisan nature of these races.
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I mean— It should be nonpartisan, right? I mean, the
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role of judge should not be politicized. The role of
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judge should be to be neutral. And we're all human
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beings and none of us can transcend our collective life
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experience and our biases, conscious, subconscious, whatnot. But at the
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end of the day, you should strive to be as
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centrist as you can be. And you're going to fall
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probably a little center left or center right. But that's understandable.
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But when you start getting bookends, people that are on
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one of the pendulum and another, I think that's very
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problematic for the role of judge.
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Other questions.
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Professions, other political positions, I think being passionate and having
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a very firm grasp of ideology is lovely. But I
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think when it comes to a judicial race and what
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we should want from judges, I think neutrality is the
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sort of gold standard. And so what's fascinating is, and
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you ask about it's nonpartisan, but I can tell you
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that I haven't been to an event where probably the
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first question a voter or an attendant, someone who's an
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attendee at the event says is, Are you a Republican
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or a Democrat? I mean, it's the first thing that
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they want to know when in reality, I don't know
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that that's the most relevant question that is I would
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ask about a judge. I mean, there are other things
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I think are more pertinent to the role than what
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party affiliation are you. But that's a little bit of
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the absurdity of calling it nonpartisan when in reality, the
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groups that we go seek endorsements from are. groups that
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sponsor events that says Republican, Democrat. I mean, you have
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the Clark County Republican Party. They endorsed me for my race.
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And so, I mean, what does that mean, right? I mean,
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at the end of the day, that's a very partisan entity, correct?
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And so it's interesting. So, you know, I think the
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partisan aspect, maybe it'd be a little more honest if,
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you know, it was more transparent. But at the end
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of the day, I totally sympathize with what voters go
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through because we are anonymous. I mean, who knows who
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the judges are? I don't know who all the judges are.
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I operate in my own bubble. In my office, I'm
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tracked to certain departments. I'm not hanging out in the
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family court complex, so I don't have exposure to 90%
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of the family court judges. So if someone asks me, Mr. Lawyer,
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who to vote for, I don't have an informed position
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based on having studied their opinions and having sat through court.
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So I think it's a shame that we have a
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process that's all elected, but there's no buy-in from the
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media for the most part in actually exposing our populace
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to who we are and who they're actually voting for.
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Because how do you weed people out who are not
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suited for the job? Because, I mean, I've had many people...
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come to me and say my granddaughter's named Alex I
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love that name and that's wholly irrelevant to whether I
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would be competent, capable, have judicial temperament. But if they're
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going to vote based on, and like Jacob said, if
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you're first on the ballot, like I'm second on the ballot,
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and that's somehow now this great burden that I must overcome.
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I mean, it's a farce, right? The idea that that's something,
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or the fact that my name is gender neutral, so
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I'm in the fight. I mean, it's preposterous, right? I mean,
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because the reality is if we're picking candidates based on
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what name we like, or the path of least resistance
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because of the first person on the ballot, I think
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we have a real problem on our hands.
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Well, you know, a lot of times the voters aren't
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even engaged. They say they don't become engaged until after
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Labor Day, but even then. Sure. They have their lives,
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and they're not following what's going on. And so, listeners, again,
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we just want to point out that both of these
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candidates are going to be on your Clark County ballot,
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district court. Anyone in the county can vote for them.
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So make sure you remember their names, Judge Jacob Reynolds
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and Attorney Alex Hubert.
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And if I.
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Remember right, both these judicial positions of judges, it's six-year terms.
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Correct.
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Correct.
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So you'll be doing this again in another six years.
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Yes.
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And one of the unique dynamics of district court judges,
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those races, is that they all come up at the
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same time. And that has its, I guess, pros and
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its cons, right? Because now you have to come up
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with a pool, a massive pool of qualified opponents. Because
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every department is at one time. You get one shot
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to take on every single district court department. And if
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you don't succeed in that window, it's six more years
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and see another shot at it. There's a lot of
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interesting dynamics that once you sort of get involved in
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this process, because I'm behind Jacob, obviously, by five years,
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but it's like once you get involved, you start seeing
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how kind of meat is made, and it's interesting from
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that perspective.
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Well, last election cycle, two years ago, we actually, at
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the town hall that we do on the first Thursday
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of every month, was to have one of the town
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halls we had was with just judges.
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That's fabulous. Yeah.
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And there's like five judges, if I remember right.
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Yeah.
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The attendees were able to ask each of the judges questions,
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and then I would ask them questions as well.
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Be an attorney.
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And so I think that was a very good meeting
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because people were able, first of all, to talk and
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meet personally these candidates personally. Ask them questions and see
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how they responded. And I think it was very beneficial.
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So I would just say anyone that's listening right now
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who's running for a judicial office, a district court, Judge,
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you should come to our conservative town hall meeting on
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September 3rd at 1870 West Craig Road. And just come
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and bring your rat cards or your business cards and
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just get to meet the voters. Because I know from
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hearing people tell me they don't know how to pick
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a judge. You're listening to Talk with a Conservative.
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On the White Coat.
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You're tuned in to Talk with a Conservative, where reason
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still rules and free speech still matters.
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It's time to cut through the noise and get back
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to what really matters. Let's talk.
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I just have one more question about the voters, because...
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on my Facebook page, I see a lot of judges
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posting photos of going to different events, and it looks
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like they're rubbing elbows with other attorneys and other judges.
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And so where do the common voters come in to
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those type of events? Alex?
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I did an event this weekend out in Henderson at
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the Heritage Senior Center, I believe it was called. And
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we were The premise was you're going to do a
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town hall Q & A, 15 minutes per candidate to
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really go deeper than just your little blurb. So I
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was like, great, we're going to go deeper, not so superficial,
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and hopefully we'll have a turnout. And we believed there'd
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be a strong turnout. When all was said and done,
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it was a handful of voters. and a ton of candidates.
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And so we're all talking to each other. And so
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every photo op is basically like me and a Jacob,
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you know, smiling. I mean, that's what it turned into.
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And I felt, I mean, I brought my goodies. I
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had my guitar picks and my refrigerator magnets and my
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shirts and all my merch, right? But I mean, folks
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were bringing epic levels of promotional materials that they're hauling
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in and, you know, barely can carry. And I felt
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terrible because I mean, the people staring at them are us.
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We're not, we can't get you elected or not reelect.
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I mean, we're all just part of the club, right?
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That's going through this collective life experience. And so, you know,
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it's tough because we go to these events and the
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premise is that it is for the public, but, You
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can't force people to show up, obviously. And so, you know,
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but it's also tough because how much advertising can these
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groups really afford? I mean, you put an ad on Instagram,
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but a lot of voters are not deep in the
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tech world. And so they're not going to even know
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it exists. And so it's interesting because we're going through
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the great sort of digital transition right now where the
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campaigns with artificial intelligence, you can make videos, you can
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make Any background you want, you can insert yourself into.
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You can put music into. I mean, the traditional formats
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are no longer a necessity. You can kind of, in
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your own bedroom, create. And with the help of ChatGPT,
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you can have an entire... They'll lay out your entire
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campaign for you if you want. Where to go, peak
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times to sort of appear, and where, what days of
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the week. I mean, it's the first election where that
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is sophisticated enough that it actually is usable. If you
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post a picture, it's hard to tell, is it... Altered
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or not. Years ago, the last election cycle, the faces
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looked funky and it was very clear it hadn't caught
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up yet. But frankly, I mean, that's a great equalizer
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in some respects, because like in my race, I'm going
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up against someone who has an insane amount of money
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and I do not have an insane amount of money.
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So how do I compete with that? I have to
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compete with creativity and being able to generate content and
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generate messaging results. with the tools that I have, because
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I can't farm it out to a third party and say,
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go do it for me. And so I'm very grateful
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that those tools exist because without it, you know, it'd
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be very, very challenging to be able to be a
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known quantity in any, in any regard, because I can't
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just burn money, sticking my face on every billboard and
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digital billboard. And I mean, it's just, it's just not
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the nature of my campaign. And frankly, I mean, I
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don't know that that really moves the needle. It's a
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very interesting anecdotally, when you look at races, how There
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is no secret sauce. The idea that if you spend
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the most, you will win has been shattered.
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I think Jim Rashad showed that in this last election.
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Since he ran Secretary of State, won the primary for Republican,
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and essentially spent nothing. And statewide election, wins the primary,
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and his two other opponents did spend money. So that's
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a prime example of money isn't everything.
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It's not even the only thing, but.
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So, Jacob, what is your response?
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I would just agree. I wouldn't respond to it. I
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would agree with what he said. Okay.
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So, Judge Reynolds, please share your background with our audience.
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Why did you decide to become an attorney? Where did
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you go to law school? Just, you know, a brief
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overview of you.
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Deep dive or brief? Brief.
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Grew up, I'm the second to last of 11 kids.
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That tells you something about my upbringing. Grew up working
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on an orchard and in kitchens and at.
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School to help with food.
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Then we did Paper route, those kind of things. The
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joke where I grew up was if you want to
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become a millionaire, work a million hours. So my dad's
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idea was have 11 kids and have them all work 100,000 hours.
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That was before they had TV, right?
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We had a 12-inch TV in our house growing up.
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Anyway, so that was kind of how I grew up.
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But we also, my dad was a professor, and we
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moved around a lot. So I actually grew up in Scotland, Israel.
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I served a mission for my church in Argentina. did
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work with Habitat for Humanity International in El Salvador.
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For part of my career.
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I was doing commercial litigation primarily, also did some election law,
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did ethics commission work type of stuff, but primarily was
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complex commercial litigation matters in my practice. I clerked for
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the chief judge of the federal district court here for
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two years as I.
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Came out of law school.
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Where did you go to law school?
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Brigham Young University, J. Raymond Clark Law School. So grateful.
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Go Cougars. Hope we do well this year in football.
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That would be good.
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The other, you know, so that was my background here.
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I met my wife here. We have four children, uh,
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love all of them. Shout out to all of them.
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Just have two in high school right now at Centennial.
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We're out in the Northwest and, uh, two younger ones, but, uh,
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one boy, three girls.
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They're beautiful.
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Wonderful.
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My wife is a practicing OBGYN here. That's, uh, something
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that's very important to all of us is, uh, the
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work that she does in helping in this community. So
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other than that, I've been on the bench for three
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and a half years. I was appointed by Governor Lombardo.
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I'm the only judge, to my knowledge, I'm the only
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judge still that's appointed by Governor Lombardo. They told me
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recently I'm still the only judge endorsed by him. But
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I'm endorsed bipartisan, like I've got former Democrat governors who
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have endorsed me and former Republican governors who have also
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endorsed me. I think it's very important to have broad
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support for the same reasons Alex was saying. It's important
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that you be respected throughout the community as opposed to
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one side of the community because no one wants to
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show up in court and be kind of like, oh,
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he's a Democrat or, oh, he's a Republican.
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It's like, what does that mean for your judge? Like, oh,
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he's this, this. this gender is my judge, or this
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is their political belief. It should not matter who the
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judge is. You want to get away.
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From it mattering that way. But that's kind of a
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short background. That's the shortest background I've given on me.
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So Alex, I'll go ahead.
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What kind of law did you practice? It's called complex
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commercial litigation. We probably call it that so we can
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charge more. But it's basically big businesses suing each other.
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I did a lot of pro bono work as well.
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Our firm won the pro bono firm of the year
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when I was there, largely due to Patty Lee, who
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was an amazing advocate, and now is on the Supreme Court.
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So we were regularly taking pro bono cases at the
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firm there. So he helped people who had like $ 1, 000 problems, $ 15, 000 problems,
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and then clients who had like $ 200 million problems.
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So Alex, give us a little... A brief summary of
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your background and why you want to be an attorney
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and where did you go to law school?
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Well, the first contrast I can draw is that I
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am not the youngest of 11 children. I am an
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only child. So there you go.
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So you are the youngest.
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Yes, exactly. I'm the youngest, the oldest. I'm the middle child.
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Just for the record, we're not running against each other,
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so we don't need a contrast.
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No.
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Exactly.
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I just, when you said 11 children, I thought, well,
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there you go. Background that there you go. Um, so yeah,
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I'm an only child. I grew up in, in, in California.
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My father was a, was the chief psychiatrist for the
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West Los Angeles VA medical center. So he was head
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of outpatient treatment, founded a program called day treatment day hospitals.
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So I grew up, uh, my mom stayed home and
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so she's, she was a psychologist and she stopped working
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when I was born to kind of I think if
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you can, the aspiration of being a parent is to
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treat raising your child like a second career. I mean,
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it really is that important. And so they were fully
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invested in if we're going to have one, we're going
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to go all in instead of having... Because my mom's
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the kind of personality, she could have had 20 kids.
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I mean, it's just how she is. And so I
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didn't want for a whole lot. I was lucky that
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I had music lessons and I was involved in sports.
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I'm 6'5.
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I mean, I was tall always. And so I was very...
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pretty good at sports when I was young. And so
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I had a lot of opportunities to do camps and
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what have you. And I went through a number of instruments.
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My dad was a pianist and was from Detroit and
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grew up. He would be 81 years old now. He
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passed 21 years ago. And he grew up playing with
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little Stevie Wonder. And, you know, co-wrote tracks in my
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tears with Melky Robinson in his living room. And so,
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I mean, that was an era that he, perspective he brought.
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And so I started on piano when I was five.
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I got to guitar after a few other instruments at 11.
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And that was just... fit my guitar teacher at 11
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was rick james former guitar player who played on mary
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jane and all those so i mean it was just
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that was sort of love and i just got deep
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into it but the answer i mean the other questions
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you asked i went to college and law school in
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arizona i had two uncles that went to the architecture
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program at the university of arizona so it was adjacent
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warm weathered and kind of away from home, so I
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went to the U of A for undergrad and studied philosophy,
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and I went to law school at ASU where the
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jobs were, and just to kind of have a little
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variety of experience. Ended up taking the bar exam there
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and ended up moving here 10 days later, so I
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had to wait six months because there was no reciprocity
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to take the Nevada bar. But I graduated early, and
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when I went home just for winter break, my father
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was diagnosed with a lethal brain tumor. And so he
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continued to practice until he passed. The same thing John
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McCain died of, Teddy Kennedy. I mean, it's incurable. It's
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called a glioblastoma. But the point is, he lived about
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11 months. And so I needed to be flexible because
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I had to be available because it was just me
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and my mom. And so I kept my apartment. He
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kept working, so I had a certain flexibility. But I
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basically worked as an at-risk substitute teacher from Maricopa County.
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So for all of Phoenix... ish all of it as
482
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huge as it is i would go into detention centers
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00:26:00.349 --> 00:26:02.769
i would work with teen moms i would go work
484
00:26:02.829 --> 00:26:06.269
with intellectually disabled children and just i was the only
485
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person that they had that was willing to do it
486
00:26:08.210 --> 00:26:10.130
so i get on my motorcycle and i just tear
487
00:26:10.150 --> 00:26:12.259
around town and go where they sent me and and
488
00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:14.680
i was in tent city where sheriff joe arpaio which
489
00:26:14.700 --> 00:26:16.480
a lot of your listeners may know they had a
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the juvenile facility was called durango school so i used
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to go there pretty regularly because it was a controlled
492
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environment it was interesting and i could make of the
493
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course what i wanted so it became kind of like
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00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:29.569
a crim law course but um That was that year.
495
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And after he died, it was like, okay, it's game on.
496
00:26:33.470 --> 00:26:37.390
Adolescence is over. It's time to really take full responsibility
497
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for my future. And so I took that bar. It
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00:26:40.730 --> 00:26:43.430
worked out where we ended up, my then girlfriend, now wife,
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00:26:43.539 --> 00:26:45.599
who I met when he was ill, which was the
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one blessing throughout that entire process is that we met
501
00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:50.720
and we were a support for each other. But yeah.
502
00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:53.160
I moved here and I kind of banged around. I
503
00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:56.440
sold cars for a period of time. I volunteered at
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government offices for free. It was tough because it's a
505
00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:04.400
little like showing up with a suitcase. I was one
506
00:27:04.420 --> 00:27:07.569
of those people who got here in 2005. So it
507
00:27:08.109 --> 00:27:10.609
was during the boom when there were condo conversions and
508
00:27:10.650 --> 00:27:12.329
when it was expensive. It was cheaper for us to
509
00:27:12.369 --> 00:27:14.069
run a house than an apartment. I mean, it's just
510
00:27:14.089 --> 00:27:17.269
the way it was, right? And so it was a
511
00:27:17.289 --> 00:27:19.049
tough first year. I almost took a job in Kingman
512
00:27:19.230 --> 00:27:21.509
and I was going to commute. because I had that license.
513
00:27:21.569 --> 00:27:24.769
But I work for the Public Defender's Office. I've been
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00:27:24.789 --> 00:27:27.210
there for 20 years. I essentially have worked as a
515
00:27:27.269 --> 00:27:29.630
supervisor trainer for the last seven or eight years. So
516
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I do my best to mentor and train younger lawyers.
517
00:27:33.150 --> 00:27:36.430
But because of my dad's background dealing with veterans and
518
00:27:36.450 --> 00:27:40.029
dealing with mental health, obviously, I kind of very much
519
00:27:40.069 --> 00:27:42.039
have lent a lot of my career and have been
520
00:27:42.099 --> 00:27:45.200
probably as comfortable as any attorney dealing with the most
521
00:27:45.259 --> 00:27:49.369
severely mentally ill clients that we represent. And Veterans Corps
522
00:27:49.390 --> 00:27:52.490
was not a thing when I started, but once that
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00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.160
was launched, I had definitely a sensitivity to our veterans
524
00:27:56.220 --> 00:27:58.720
that were coming through the criminal justice system because so
525
00:27:58.740 --> 00:28:03.329
much of the behavior was driven by combat stress and
526
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.269
how it would manifest in substance abuse. And so that's
527
00:28:06.329 --> 00:28:08.529
given me an opportunity to sort of almost be a
528
00:28:08.569 --> 00:28:11.650
social worker, masquerading as a lawyer in some respects, but...
529
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:15.769
There you go. Boom. That's sort of a background for you.
530
00:28:16.109 --> 00:28:17.369
Just a real quick question.
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00:28:17.769 --> 00:28:18.069
Yeah.
532
00:28:18.509 --> 00:28:21.049
Which bar is harder, Nevada or Arizona?
533
00:28:22.089 --> 00:28:24.529
You know what's funny is that I thought Arizona was
534
00:28:24.609 --> 00:28:28.109
harder just because of the format, because it's two days,
535
00:28:28.190 --> 00:28:31.470
but they do half-hour essays. And so it's a bit
536
00:28:31.569 --> 00:28:34.809
more awkward, and they call them crossover questions, but they
537
00:28:34.910 --> 00:28:37.819
mash up the questions for the essays. Nevada is more
538
00:28:37.859 --> 00:28:40.700
like a war of attrition. It's modeled kind of after California.
539
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:42.890
It's two and a half days instead of three. I
540
00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:44.029
remember being at the Tuscan.
541
00:28:44.109 --> 00:28:45.250
I think they're changing it now.
542
00:28:45.329 --> 00:28:48.849
Yeah, California's is two. And now New Mexico is not
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00:28:48.869 --> 00:28:50.029
even going to require that.
544
00:28:50.109 --> 00:28:51.390
Well, hey.
545
00:28:51.410 --> 00:28:53.509
They're not even going to require it.
546
00:28:53.569 --> 00:28:56.269
You have to work. Those lawyers are going to get soft.
547
00:28:56.289 --> 00:28:59.109
You've got to kind of go pay your dues and
548
00:28:59.470 --> 00:29:01.509
grind through it because that's really what it is. It's
549
00:29:01.529 --> 00:29:04.250
not that it's so difficult. It's just, yeah, three days
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00:29:04.309 --> 00:29:06.299
of going. I remember going home the first day. And
551
00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:08.299
I had such a raging migraine from staring at that
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00:29:08.380 --> 00:29:11.140
screen so intently. Oh, you had a screen.
553
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:12.480
We got the handwriting.
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00:29:12.619 --> 00:29:15.160
Oh, thank goodness I had a screen. My handwriting is
555
00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:17.559
a horror show. And I can type. I tell you,
556
00:29:17.579 --> 00:29:19.589
typing saved me. But, yeah, I was at the Tuscany.
557
00:29:19.609 --> 00:29:21.809
And there's delivery guys coming in with pop. And they're, like,
558
00:29:21.849 --> 00:29:24.920
walking in. And I'm like... We're taking a test. Like,
559
00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:27.119
this is like, you know, that's where the Pepsi goes.
560
00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:29.079
I mean, it's just the absurdity of a casino, right?
561
00:29:29.099 --> 00:29:31.180
You're taking this test in a casino and people are
562
00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:35.190
hitting jackpots in the background. I mean, it's Vegas. I mean,
563
00:29:35.210 --> 00:29:37.569
it's perfect for the narrative, you know?
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00:29:37.690 --> 00:29:39.450
You know, when I took the bar and.
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00:29:41.630 --> 00:29:45.819
Oh, goodness. They have proctors. So you could hear a
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00:29:46.299 --> 00:29:48.240
thump on the other side of the room. A man
567
00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:53.660
had passed out. Some of the participants went to help him.
568
00:29:54.579 --> 00:29:57.869
So they did not have enough time to complete the exam,
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00:29:57.920 --> 00:29:59.890
and so they tried to sue the State Bar of
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00:29:59.930 --> 00:30:05.630
California because they wanted to be given credit or be
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00:30:05.690 --> 00:30:09.349
able to take the exam again because they helped. This
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00:30:09.430 --> 00:30:12.819
poor man. And and they roll. Well, that's why they
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00:30:12.859 --> 00:30:17.140
have proctors there. You didn't have to get up and.
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00:30:16.819 --> 00:30:18.619
No rescue doctor. Yeah.
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00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:22.200
I mean, it was that was one of the weirdest things.
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00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:25.059
They had a flood at the plaza one year when
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00:30:25.099 --> 00:30:27.180
folks were taking the test and their own laptops and
578
00:30:27.220 --> 00:30:29.619
saw the cords and the power strips and the floods.
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00:30:31.029 --> 00:30:33.390
And so it was shorting out the, I mean, yeah,
580
00:30:33.690 --> 00:30:35.490
that's all part, I mean, it's all part of the,
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00:30:36.089 --> 00:30:38.150
your memoirs one day, you look back and go, that
582
00:30:38.190 --> 00:30:41.259
was part of the journey, right? I always remember that
583
00:30:41.390 --> 00:30:43.779
Pepsi delivery guy, like, who was looking at me, like,
584
00:30:44.180 --> 00:30:46.079
for help, like, where do I go? And I'm like,
585
00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:46.559
not here.
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You want to just.
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More truth, more insight, and more straight talk coming up next.
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And we have a caller. Hello, caller. Your name, please.
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My name is Mr.
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Al Rojas.
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Mr. Al Rojas, how are you?
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00:32:12.029 --> 00:32:13.170
Pretty good, pretty good.
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00:32:13.190 --> 00:32:16.849
Do you have a question for our guest?
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00:32:16.890 --> 00:32:19.710
Yeah, what office is he running for again? He's running
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00:32:19.730 --> 00:32:20.490
for judge, right?
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00:32:20.650 --> 00:32:23.470
Okay, we have two guests, and so I'll let them
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address this briefly. Go ahead, James.
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00:32:26.819 --> 00:32:30.299
My question has to do with diversion programs. We're involved
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00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:33.619
in Neighborhood Watch. We've gotten rid of 60 and Catman
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00:32:33.619 --> 00:32:38.759
60 RVs. And we're focusing on getting diversion programs more
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00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:42.269
effective so the judges can get these homeless people the
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00:32:42.289 --> 00:32:45.480
help that they need, not just criminalize them. And when
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00:32:45.509 --> 00:32:47.269
they get out of jail, they got no resources and
619
00:32:47.289 --> 00:32:49.650
they just end up back in jail. What do you
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00:32:49.750 --> 00:32:52.950
think we can do to make diversion programs more effective?
621
00:32:52.990 --> 00:32:54.410
What would you like to see as a judge?
622
00:32:54.630 --> 00:32:56.230
And thank you, Al, for your question.
623
00:32:58.569 --> 00:33:00.869
Yes, thank you, Mr. Rojas. My career has been spent
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00:33:01.029 --> 00:33:04.099
in the criminal domain almost exclusively, so many years. When
625
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:05.880
you speak of diversion programs, I mean, there was a
626
00:33:05.940 --> 00:33:09.380
corridor court program that was legislated for a couple of
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00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:12.640
years that was involved with trying to move homeless populations
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00:33:12.740 --> 00:33:15.450
off of the Strip. But the reality is where are
629
00:33:15.470 --> 00:33:16.970
you going to put them, right? I mean, they're human
630
00:33:17.009 --> 00:33:19.009
beings and the Strip is the safest place for them
631
00:33:19.049 --> 00:33:23.109
to be because they're often targets. And so the short answer,
632
00:33:23.190 --> 00:33:25.789
because this is a very complex problem and a complex issue,
633
00:33:25.829 --> 00:33:27.569
is when you're especially when you're dealing with mentally ill
634
00:33:27.609 --> 00:33:29.809
people that are on the streets, people with substance abuse,
635
00:33:30.289 --> 00:33:33.289
addictions that are on the streets. is the more funding
636
00:33:34.089 --> 00:33:39.089
that you can put into programs, the better the chance
637
00:33:39.210 --> 00:33:42.349
that you can improve the situation. As you know, there's
638
00:33:42.410 --> 00:33:47.470
no cure, there's no magic fix, but improvement, incremental gains
639
00:33:47.549 --> 00:33:50.819
is the goal. And it's very tough when we, for example,
640
00:33:51.150 --> 00:33:52.970
I'll have a client who I represent who I think
641
00:33:52.990 --> 00:33:55.559
would be fabulous for a particular, what you referenced as
642
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:58.720
a diversion program, we call them therapeutic programs. And it's like,
643
00:33:59.180 --> 00:34:01.589
we can't get them in because there's a funding shortage.
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00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:04.549
So there's basically, they're on holiday essentially for a period
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00:34:04.569 --> 00:34:07.130
of time until they get the funding. And so this
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00:34:07.210 --> 00:34:10.369
particular individual is just a victim of timing and circumstance.
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00:34:10.409 --> 00:34:12.329
And so we're not able to offer them the benefits.
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00:34:12.730 --> 00:34:14.690
I will say that in 20 years of doing this,
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00:34:14.809 --> 00:34:17.820
there are more therapeutic programs in the justice system than
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00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:21.099
there ever have been at even the municipal court level,
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00:34:21.179 --> 00:34:23.980
justice court level, which is, you know, you're going misdemeanors,
652
00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:27.619
combination misdemeanor felony, then up to district court. And so again,
653
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:30.539
I think the county's heart is in the right place.
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00:34:30.659 --> 00:34:32.579
But like anything, it comes down to how much of
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00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:35.469
a financial commitment are you going to make? Because that's
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00:34:35.809 --> 00:34:37.730
what's going to fund, and that's what's going to ultimately
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00:34:37.750 --> 00:34:38.769
provide resources.
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00:34:39.530 --> 00:34:42.510
And I'd throw something in as well, Al. First of all,
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you asked about our departments. I'm Department 29. And so
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00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:48.500
both of us are running for seats that are over
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00:34:48.539 --> 00:34:51.599
the whole county. I'm currently sitting in Department 29 running
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00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:52.519
for re-election.
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00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:53.659
And so.
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When you get down to Department 29 in the district court,
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00:34:57.199 --> 00:34:58.940
everybody in the county will be able to vote for
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00:34:58.980 --> 00:35:04.960
that seat. To respond directly to your question, Alex gave
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00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:07.320
you some insightful points. I'm going to take a different
668
00:35:07.340 --> 00:35:10.230
point of view from the judge's side of what's going
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00:35:10.250 --> 00:35:13.909
to be really important. So apart from the money, apart
670
00:35:13.949 --> 00:35:16.840
from all that, What's going to be very important is
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00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:21.800
your credibility as an organization. So there's people who work
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00:35:21.860 --> 00:35:26.000
for years and years to build this credibility with the court.
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00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:28.280
And how do you build it? What are your results?
674
00:35:29.219 --> 00:35:31.360
You look at a program like a Hope for Prisoners
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00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:37.989
program that has had significant results in reducing recidivism in
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00:35:38.050 --> 00:35:41.090
people who are in the criminal justice system. They don't
677
00:35:41.150 --> 00:35:44.750
return to jail regularly. there's a great result that people,
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00:35:44.769 --> 00:35:47.409
that a judge can hang their hat on and say, well,
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I'm going to trust this person. So Al, if you're
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running something, for example, what you can do just from
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00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:58.440
a judicial perspective is run that program very clean, very efficiently,
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and try to find something where you can identify the
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00:36:01.860 --> 00:36:06.159
positive results you have created so that when you go
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00:36:06.219 --> 00:36:10.110
into court, you will have advocates inside the court who saying, hey,
685
00:36:10.150 --> 00:36:13.349
we need to use this program. We need to be using...
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00:36:13.269 --> 00:36:16.769
I know Al. I know his results. He's presented this.
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So from a judicial perspective, I would encourage you to
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do that. Find something measurable that you can put in
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front of the judges that says, this is how I'm working.
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This is what I'm improving. This is the kind of
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00:36:29.090 --> 00:36:32.869
focus you can divert people to me on this basis.
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00:36:33.510 --> 00:36:36.190
You have to give us something concrete that we can
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hang our hat on when we do that.
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00:36:39.780 --> 00:36:46.150
Okay, and so next, I know that, Alex, in reading
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your little bio, you said that you're prepared to bring fairness, empathy, integrity,
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00:36:52.820 --> 00:36:57.179
and a touch of levity to the bench. I like
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00:36:57.219 --> 00:37:04.679
that when the judge has levity. Okay. I appreciate judicial
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00:37:04.820 --> 00:37:08.880
officers that add levity at the appropriate time. But can
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00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:11.980
you tell our listeners briefly how you're going to do
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00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:15.449
that and also what Department 21, what kind of cases
701
00:37:15.469 --> 00:37:17.630
are heard in Department 21?
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00:37:17.630 --> 00:37:21.670
I mean, currently my understanding is that Department 21 is
703
00:37:21.710 --> 00:37:25.969
a split calendar between civil cases and criminal cases, typically
704
00:37:25.989 --> 00:37:28.510
the way, in my experience, of having a period in
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00:37:28.570 --> 00:37:30.920
front in court four days a week for them. Yes,
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00:37:30.940 --> 00:37:33.880
the last 20 years, it's most judges stagger. They'll have
707
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:36.920
like a Monday civil calendar, the civil day, Tuesday criminal,
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00:37:37.219 --> 00:37:40.079
Wednesday civil, Thursday criminal. So like in my my world,
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00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:43.059
we appear in front of two different judges and we
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00:37:43.099 --> 00:37:45.030
alternate days. So I have one judge that I appear
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00:37:45.070 --> 00:37:46.730
in front of on Mondays and Wednesdays and the other
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00:37:46.750 --> 00:37:48.610
judge I appear in front of on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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00:37:48.690 --> 00:37:51.050
If you're in a trial. That kind of goes out
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00:37:51.070 --> 00:37:54.710
the window, and you work around their calendars that they
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00:37:54.750 --> 00:37:58.179
have to administer in the mornings. But that's sort of
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00:37:58.260 --> 00:38:01.639
how they're structured. So you'd have a split calendar, in essence. Now,
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00:38:02.139 --> 00:38:04.159
one of my peers who was on the bench when
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00:38:04.219 --> 00:38:07.000
she started, she had an all-criminal calendar. And there are
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00:38:07.019 --> 00:38:09.699
a number of judges who, when they get elected or appointed,
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00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:13.780
they are all civil. But typically, the split calendar is
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sort of how it's organized.
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And so.
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Yes, levity. I mean, look, at the end of the day,
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you are who you are. And I think there's also
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appropriate times when things can be lighter. And there's times
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that are very sobering where it isn't a laughing matter.
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But I think empathy is universal. And that's one thing
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I think doing this for so long and being in
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the people business, because I've been representing people for 20 years,
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is that whether it's a victim, whether it's somebody you represent,
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Whether it's jurors trying to sort through and sift through
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evidence to figure out what the heck to do to
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try to be fair, but they're doing the best they
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can as laypeople to wade through all the morass of
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what's being thrown in front of them. If you have
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a good heart and you're empathic, that can extend to everybody.
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People ask all the time, how do you defend someone
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who's done something so terrible? That's the number one question, right?
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If you do what I do for a living. I
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don't condone the behavior. If I represent someone accused of
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domestic violence, I'm not an advocate for domestic violence. I'm
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there to ensure that their rights are protected and ultimately
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that fairness, i.e. justice, is what results from the case.
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And that doesn't mean there are no guilty people and
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let's open the jails and let everyone run free. That's television.
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That's not reality. I mean, the conviction rate nationally is what, 95%?
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The number of cases that go to trial is a pittance.
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I mean, I work with a team of lawyers. I
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can't get any of them into trial. I hadn't done
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a trial in several years because it's not set up
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that way. It's too much risk, right? So, I mean,
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you take the deal or whatever it means. So, you know,
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the idea of what we do, you know, the prosecutor
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isn't the victim. I'm not the one who committed the crime.
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The judge is not a party to the incident that occurred.
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We all operate in these symbolic roles. And what's fascinating
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is the military... Has their JAG lawyers work as prosecutors
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and defense lawyers? You do both because at the end
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of the day, this isn't personal. This is a job.
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you have a role to play. And so the idea
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that if you ascend to the bench as either a DA,
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that you could never turn that off or that if
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you were a defense lawyer, that you can never turn
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that off. I mean, that's a very reductionist view of
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the candidate and maybe some can't, but I'm not self-conscious
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that I would be this just extension of what I do,
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just masquerading as a judge up on the bench. And
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so my role would become very different than what it's been.
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And so, um, That's what I got for you.
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Okay. And Judge Reynolds?
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So my department is an all-civil department, and it has
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to be an all-civil department because I'm across the street
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in the Phoenix building. I don't have the security measures
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in place to get the people who are on criminal
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trial from the jail over into the courthouse and all
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that washing.
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So Department 29, no matter who wins our race, will
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be a civil department. I'm the only.
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candidate in the race with substantial civil experience. I wanted
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to throw out, you were talking about levity in the courtroom.
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The problem that judges have with enjoying levity in a
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courtroom is everybody laughs at a judge's jokes in a
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courtroom because everybody stands up when the judge comes in.
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Everybody laughs at his jokes. Everybody thinks you're the smartest
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person in there.
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Oh, of course you're not. And they call you your honor.
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It just piles on and piles on and there needs
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to be decorum.
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There's a reason for that.
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It's we're all, playing a part and there needs to
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be decorum there needs to be respect in the room
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and so that's what we're doing but i come home
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i make the dinner family i make the bed in
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the morning with my wife we and uh you know
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this weekend i how so how do you what i'm
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getting at is how do you ground yourself when you're
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judged so that you can be practical and not act
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like you're sitting on a throne and separated from the
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people but try to empathize try to understand what's going
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on because the whole system the way we run it
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which I think is necessary because there needs to be
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decorum and there needs to be order in the court
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but you need to find a way to ground yourself
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and for me that's my family being involved with them
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like I've coached so many of my kids soccer teams
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and basketball teams and just gotten to know people in
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the community that way this weekend I was last weekend
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I was helping a neighbor move. And, you know, so
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for like two hours in the Vegas heat, we were
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like getting, getting all this, uh, this pod loaded up
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so she can move it to Texas.
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And it's just, uh, you know, you have to actually
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get off.
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The bench and see people where they are and do
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what people are doing. Um, because the, the, Thank heavens
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that the great majority of people never want to be
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in court. They don't want to be there. Frankly, they
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don't want to be there as a juror. They don't
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want to be there. They certainly don't want to be
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there as a defendant being accused of something, doing something wrong.
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So nobody wants to be in court in that way.
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The community members who vote for us and support us.
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So it's incumbent upon judges to really go out to
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them To see what's going on in the community. What
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is happening here? Who are we as a community? And
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to reflect those values when you're.
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On the bench.
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Okay.
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So briefly, very briefly, I'm going to start with Alex.
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Do you have any final thoughts, comments, or events you
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want our listeners to know about?
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I would encourage folks, and if you're listening to this show,
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you're obviously more invested than people who are completely detached
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from the process. Do a little digging. Go to the websites.
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How invested is the candidate in their own candidacy? Is
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their website a little photo and have some clip art
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and a donate now button? Or is it something that's
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thoughtfully put together that gives you a real insight into
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who they are? I mean, it takes courage to sort
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of bare your soul and to be honest and transparent
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about who you are. I mean, I have appeared in
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front of Every type of audience you can imagine. The
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reality is what's consistent is me. Because I'm playing with
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house money. At the end of the day, if I
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don't succeed in being elected, I still have a job
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that I relate to and appreciate very much. And I
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will continue doing it. This is something that's aspirational. It's
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not something that I have to do to meet some
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ego need. And so I think I could be very
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good at it. And it's the logical extension of what
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my practice has been. I mean, to take all those
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years and those thousands of cases... And knowing where resources
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probably best could be allocated. And from a civil standpoint,
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my career began in civil. We were handling one of
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the largest civil construction defect cases in the state of
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Nevada's history. The Anthem Kitech litigation at IPEX, the plumbing,
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all that. I mean, it was the first case I
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ever handled. I mean, I was involved in it, not
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the only lawyer. But I can do what's right because
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I'm not beholden to anybody. No one's handed me massive
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amounts of money. And then we all get to pretend
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when they walk in the courtroom that that didn't happen.
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I get to do what's right because it's right. And
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so in that regard, you hope that that integrity and
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that principle can translate. It may or it may not.
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And if it doesn't and the machine ultimately prevails, then,
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you know, so be it. But I'm going to, like
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I say, to leave you with a musical reference, I'm
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going to write the record that I want to write.
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You'll never know if it's the reason you succeeded or
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didn't succeed. but I'd much rather do it on my
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terms and write the record I want to write than,
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than pander or try to sort of answer questions in
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a way that I think will have the maximum, you know,
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hit rates or that it's what your audience wants to hear. So, um,
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that's me for better or worse.
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Okay.
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And judge Reynolds, uh, judge jacob.com is the website. I
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would love, you can reach out to me at Jacob
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at judge jacob.com and easy email to remember. Um, I
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am so grateful for this community, uh, Grateful to be
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on the bench already. Grateful for the support I've already
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received from these listeners. And I hope to get your
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vote again. Thank you so much.
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Okay. Again, thank you to our guest this evening, Judge
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Jacob Reynolds of District Court, Department 29, and Attorney Alex Hubert,
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Judicial Candidate for District Court, Department 21. Next week, our
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guest will be Christopher Brandlin, Candidate for AD42. We want
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to thank our caller this evening, Al Rojas. And to
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775 Alive for their continued support and encouragement. And to you,
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our loyal listener, who makes it a priority to tune
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in every Monday evening at 7 p.m.