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Hey, welcome back to the Lawrence Larson Show on First Amendment Friday.
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It's a pleasure to be with you, and I'm glad to get to your phone calls and emails.
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You know, one of the people I consider one of the most excrable DAs in America is Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, accused now of leading misleading a judge, and now a federal grand jury is taking a hard look at him.
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I wanted to get the straight skinny on him by talking to Cully Stimpson, who's a Heritage Foundation legal expert, former prosecutor, and co-author of the book called Rogue Prosecutors.
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And Cully, I am correct, am I not, that Larry Krasner is one of those rogue prosecutors?
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He absolutely is one of the rogue prosecutors, uh, Lars.
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And in fact, we dedicate an entire chapter to Uncle Larry, which is what the criminals in Philly call him.
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Uncle Larry.
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So they feel very uh what warm and fuzzy about Larry Krasner, the DA?
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Yeah, he's a member of the family, uh, because he's with them.
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He's not with victims, he's not with cops.
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And uh it's actually worse than even what your teaser said.
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Not only did the judge uh suggest that uh well refer the case to D.O.J., but he suggested that Larry Krasner uh conspired with Stiegler, his number two henchman, uh, and ordered three of his deputy district attorneys to lie to a federal judge in an ongoing proceeding.
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And so, uh, and then and and then tried to hide the evidence of that himself, and then lied on the record himself.
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So I think Uncle Larry's time as the execable DA is his days are numbered now.
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Okay, so Kelly, tell me this.
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Uh what do you think it is that leads people who choose the legal profession and then choose the prosecution side of the legal profession, which is not known as the most well-paid side of the legal profession.
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It's not where you're gonna make the big bucks most of the time.
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Why are they choosing this kind of work and then turning around and befriending the criminals, which basically throws the victims of those criminals under the bus?
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Yeah.
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Well, look, most DAs are law and order people, whether they're Democrat or Republican.
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There's only 2,300 elected DAs across the country.
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But the Soros prosecutors are not DA law and order types.
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They are usually public defenders or criminal defense attorneys,
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and there's nothing wrong with that.
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I was one, uh, in addition to being a prosecutor.
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But their their interests lie in making sure that criminals don't go to prison.
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They're part of the prison abolitionist movement, and that's why when they get into office with Soros money, uh Larry got$1.7 million the first time around and$1.2 million the second time around when he ran.
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Uh they water down felonies to misdemeanors, don't let their prosecutors prosecute misdemeanors, don't send violent juvenile thugs and murderers uh to adult court, don't ask for cash bail, et cetera, et cetera.
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So they're not they're not prosecutors.
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Remember, on the night he was first elected, Lars, at his party, he said he was, quote, a public defender with power, unquote.
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That's the way they view themselves.
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I guess you you know what I want to ask you something, and you may consider this to be uh you know sacrilege to you know say it this way, but the system is is bent in the direction of providing uh abundant opportunities for people who are accused of crimes, and we put all the weight on the prosecution side saying you've got to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, the defense doesn't, you've got to do this, you've got to do that.
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And I just wonder if we've bent the system a little bit too hard.
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We want it to have some bias against uh conviction and in favor of innocence, unless, of course, the state can actually prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you did do the crime.
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But I think about this because if you're a prosecutor and you find evidence that is exculpatory evidence, the evidence that would clear the person that you're accusing, what are you required to do with that?
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Under Brady against Maryland, a Supreme Court case, you're required to turn that over to the defense.
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And in fact, it can be so exculpatory you won't even file charges.
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And if you had, you withdraw the charges.
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That's what a that's what a fair person does.
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Now, what what if you were a defense attorney, because you've done that job too, just so my audience hears this, if you find something that that indicates your your client, no matter what he told you or she told you, is guilty as sin, is is completely did the deed, what are you and you are aware that the prosecution does not have this, what is it you are required to do by judicial ethics?
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You're required to provide a zealic, zealous and ethical defense.
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Uh, but if you get the evidence, right?
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Well, no, you have an attorney-client privilege.
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You don't hide anything.
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You defend the person to the best of your ability uh under the legal ethics rules.
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I mean, I defended several people who absolutely did what they were charged with.
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Now, the government in some cases wasn't able to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, and that was on the government.
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That's their failure, not my job to help them prove their case.
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That's true.
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Uh but, but, but here's the thing.
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If your client then wants to take the stand and say, I didn't do it, and he already told you he did it, then, and this happens, Lars, then you ask the judge if he can excuse the jury, go up and tell the judge, Judge, I cannot, quote, sponsor my client, uh, and then the judge gives you the knowing nod, the prosecutor gives you the knowing nod, and then you step back, the judge says to Billy Bob, your defendant, you know you can take the stand.
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Uh, no one can prevent you from taking the stand.
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Are you sure you want to take the stand?
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Yes, I do.
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The guy takes the stand and you say to your client, uh, Mr.
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Billy Bob, tell us spell your name, say your name, spell your name for the record.
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He says it and I said, You have something you want to say, go ahead.
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That's all you can do.
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You can't perpetrate the lie by doing anything else.
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I guess what I'm thinking about is imagine this, Cully.
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You you, as the defense attorney, you come across a piece of evidence, the knife, and the knife has blood on it.
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And you think, well, this blood, this blood probably came from the victim that my client stabbed to death.
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Uh so I'm gonna have it tested, but then I'm gonna tell the lab don't generate a paper report because you'll have to give that up to the prosecutor.
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Tell me over the phone what you found.
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And the lab says, Well, Collie, we found that the blood on there is the blood of the victim that your client is accused of stabbing to death.
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And you can deliberately engineer it so that the prosecutor doesn't hear about it.
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But if the prosecution did the same kind of thing and said, I'm gonna I'm gonna hide this exculpatory evidence from the defense attorney, they can have the whole case thrown out, can't they?
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Prosecutors are held to a higher standard.
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They're required to, you're ministers of justice, and we don't there's a thing called type one and type two error, Lars.
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And this goes back to your first question, and that is we think as a society that it's more important to let a guilty person go than convict an innocent person.
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And therefore, that's built into the system, and that's fine.
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So I don't think the system is broken.
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What I think has happened is the greatest fraud perpetrated on the American people in terms of the criminal justice system started a decade ago when Soros started buying DAs.
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Um, and people are waking up to smell the coffee.
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That's why they got rid of Gascone and Chesaboutine and the other people we've talked about.
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Larry's one of the last men standing from the big kahunas uh of the big prosecutors.
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And maybe we can give him a retirement plan by sending him off to federal prison.
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That's Cully Stimpson, a heritage legal expert and the co-author of Rogue Prosecutors.
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Cully, thanks very much.
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