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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) On the morning of September 26, 2008, Larry Whitfield and Quanterrious McCoy—armed with a .357 handgun and an AK–47 assault rifle—entered the front door of the Fort Financial Credit Union in Gastonia, North Carolina. Only one of these would-be bank robbers would be sentenced to life in prison for it.
Reb teaches you how not to rob a bank (but if you do, ask if any bystanders have high blood pressure). This is United States v. Whitfield (2015).
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REPORT: FELONY MURDER—An On-Ramp for Extreme Sentencing (updated May 2024): https://www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/2024/05/Felony-Murder-An-On-Ramp-for-Extreme-Sentencing.pdf
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00:00 - Intro
01:11 - CASE BEGINS.
01:30 - THE FACTS.
06:38 - FIRST DEGREE MURDER?!
12:33 - REAL CASES: FELONY MURDER PRISONERS.
19:37 - SO, THIS POLICY IS A NIGHTMARE?
24:11 - LARRY’S LIFE SENTENCE (SIKE?).
25:44 - Did Mary Parnell "accompany" Larry Whitfield?
27:19 - U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION.
31:37 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Today, 98% of all federal criminal cases are resolved with a guilty plea. Why?
"Half a loaf is better than none. . . . When we have a weak case for any reason, we'll reduce to almost anything rather than lose."
In modern America, "beyond a reasonable doubt" as determined by a jury has largely been replaced by the discretion of prosecutors to punish defendants for exercising their constitutional right to a trial by jury. So much so, defendants in pretrial detention are agreeing to plea "bargains" at a rate so high, it’s difficult to deny the obvious: Innocence is irrelevant.
Reb is joined by Hannah Bogen, a Federal Public Defender in the Office of the FPD for the Central District of California, the largest public defense office in the federal system. Hannah shares her firsthand experience with indigent defense, pretrial detention, plea bargaining, and sentencing policy—a rare glimpse into the real lives of her clients in the federal criminal system, and public defenders' enduring fight for dignity and mercy for the people whom society often forgets...Until it happens to you.
**DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions discussed in this episode are personal to Hannah and Reb and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Office of the Federal Public Defender.**
A huge thank you to Hannah Bogen for her time and unforgettable insight for this episode, and a gracious nod to the Offices of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles and around the country. Their attorneys, staff, and investigators are selfless bright sparks in a system shrouded by darkness.
See: L.A. public defenders are on a win streak as Trump's Justice Department charges activists , L.A. Times (Feb. 6, 2026) --> Access without a subscription here
See also: More than 10,000 lawyers have left the Trump Administration leaving multiple agencies understaffed, report says, Independent (May 31, 2026)
Helpful Resources, Information, Statistics:
Mass Incarceration—The Whole Pie (Prison Policy Initiative 2026)
Mass Incarceration Trends (The Sentencing Project 2026)
1 in 3 Americans has a criminal record (Center for American Progress 2022)
The Hidden Law of Plea Bargaining (2018) ("It continues to be driven not by law but by power—the vast, unregulated power of prosecutors")
The Unconstitutionality of Modern Plea Bargaining: Curbing Prosecutorial Vindictiveness, 3 Prin.L.J. 2 (2024)
Fewer than 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted in 2022 (Pew Research 2023)
An Offer You Can't Refuse: How US Federal Prosecutors Force Drug Defendants To Plead Guilty (2013)
In The Shadows: A Review of the Research on Plea Bargaining (Vera Institute 2020)
Detaining the Poor: How money bail perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time (Prison Policy Initiative 2016)
Arrest, Release, Repeat: Who is jailed, how often, and why (Prison Policy Initiative 2024)
Report: How Mandatory Minimums Perpetuate Mass Incarceration and What To Do About It (2024)
Correcting the Record: Fentanyl Myths & Misinformation (2025)
We Can't Go Cold Turkey: Why Suppressing Drug Markets Endangers Society (2018)
Addicted to punishment: Jails and prisons punish drug use far more than they treat it (Prison Policy Initiative 2024)
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00:00 - How America convicts the innocent
04:14 - WELCOME! Hannah Bogen, Federal Public Defender
05:26 - A mantra for public defenders
06:06 - **DISCLAIMER**
06:22 - Typical crimes Hannah sees in federal court
07:40 - WHAT DO FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDERS DO?
10:35 - "We're not gonna get there in time..."
12:46 - Favorite thing a client has said to you
16:05 - REPRESENTING VICTIMS IN THE SYSTEM
19:25 - "Prosecutor won't even make eye contact"
20:42 - ARRESTED IN PAJAMAS: Now what?
26:22 - Poverty and prison
29:30 - Trump's new prosecution policies
34:25 - "THE PURPOSE IS CRUELTY"
36:13 - Drugs and Mandatory Minimums
41:15 - THE PROBLEM WITH PLEA "BARGAINS"
45:38 - Plead or Suffer (Trial Penalty)
49:30 - 10,000 attorneys leave Trump's DOJ since 2025
53:25 - Former FPD Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!
55:44 - BEST DAYS ON THE JOB
1:00:53 - Final thoughts for Rebuttal listeners
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech describing this plaintiff as "outrageous," "absurd," and "loony". His name was Charles Bigbee, and his leg had been torn from his body.
This is Bigbee v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, Co., et al. (1983)—the story of a drunk woman, a telephone booth, and the most famous "frivolous" lawsuit of the 1980s.
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00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Case Begins
01:02 - THE INCIDENT (1974)
05:35 - Bigbee's Bills
09:02 - REAGAN'S SPEECH (AND VENDETTA) (1986)
15:52 - THE LAWSUIT & CLAIMS
20:19 - CA Supreme Court & Chief Justice Rose Bird (1983)
22:29 - SETTLEMENT & AFTERMATH
25:53 - WHAT HAPPENED TO CHARLES BIGBEE?
29:33 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) “I am astonished how successful these urban legends have been in influencing policy. . . .The people that created these stories did so with remarkable skill.”
The Grazinski case, the Carson case, and the Walton case, to name a few. They've all been cited as true by a wide range of major media outlets, including CNN and U.S. News & World Report.
There's just one problem: These cases don't exist. And neither do the people in them. No, AI didn't hallucinate them. Big corporations did...
...For more than 30 years, Stella Liebeck's lawsuit has been debated on talk shows, parodied in television commercials, mentioned in congressional debates, and is firmly lodged in the public consciousness. In U.S. popular culture, her case has come to symbolize greedy plaintiffs and lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits and win hugely excessive sums in a broken legal system.
And that was exactly what the big corporations, and their powerful lobbyists, wanted you to think.
Reb spills all of the real, true, and graphic details of Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants (1994).
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00:00 - Intro / CONTENT WARNING.
00:15 - LEGAL URBAN LEGENDS.
02:43 - THE BAD GUYS AND YOU.
06:16 - Tort Law vs. Tort "Reform"
08:42 - CASE BEGINS: The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case
09:59 - THE INCIDENT.
12:03 - INJURIES AND PERMANENT DISFIGUREMENT.
14:21 - STELLA'S LETTERS TO MCDONALD'S.
19:17 - THE TRIAL: What the jury heard + Transcripts
32:27 - THE VERDICT.
37:25 - MCDONALD'S LEARNS NOTHING.
38:10 - JUSTICE FOR STELLA.
38:32 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) This is our fourth **Reb's Round-Up** episode—A rapid-fire (or as rapid as Reb can make it) list of cases that deserve to be included in the Rebuttal Podcast universe but are too short to devote a full episode to. For this Round-Up, Reb gives you *14 bonus cases* for you to tell unsuspecting friends and strangers all about, including: Drones delivering packages to prison; An ex-lawyer in a purple G-string hallucinating a Giant Panda; A bank robbery research project; A $517,000 rock, paper, scissors game; A trip to the morgue and back to the ER; A (former) judge banned from a mall for being a creep; An update on the infamous bee assault case;And more...Enjoy!LINKS & CASE NAMES Case #1: The Giant Panda Defense Case #2: Moore v. Cecil, et al. (11th Cir. 2026) Case #3: United States v. Stanley (2005) Case #4: Wright v. Shotgun Willie's (2022) Case #5: Wilson v. Midland County Texas, et al. (5th Cir. 2026) Case #6: United States v. Petro (10th Cir. 2026) Case #7: Denison v. Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency, Inc. (Miss. 2026) Case #8: United States v. Blair (11th Cir. 2026) Case #9: United States v. Weatherspoon (8th Cir. 2026) Case #10: Neisser v. Pravec (2008) (Czech Republic) Case #11: United States v. Russell (4th Cir. 2026) Case #12: Commonwealth of Mass. v. Woods (2026) (and YouTube video of bee "attack") Case #13: Operation Bear Claw Case #14: Hooper c. Primeau (2017) (Quebéc's Court of Appeal)***MERCH STORE IS LIVE! Shop Reb Masel and Rebuttal Pod merch: https://rebmasel.shop/CLICK HERE to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice***Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter!Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!***00:00 - Intro00:25 - CASE #1: The Giant Panda Defense03:33 - CASE #2: The Creepy Judge04:50 - CASE #3: Robbing Banks For Research06:20 - CASE #4: Two Bodies at the Strip Club09:20 - CASE #5: "Utterly Bonkers," Says Court10:11 - CASE #6: Naked and Acquitted11:10 - CASE #7: Donation Gone Wrong16:25 - CASE #8: Tan Lines & Can Lines20:36 - CASE #9: Prison Phone Tag21:24 - CASE #10: Your Body Scratched My Bumper23:53 - CASE #11: Cat Blamed For Crime25:11 - CASE #12: (UPDATE!) Beekeeper Sentenced!28:41 - CASE #13: Operation Bearclaw31:09 - CASE #14: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Throuple, $517,00040:03 - Reb's RebuttalLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) "By all appearances, a man who went by William Woods had turned his life around. . . .There was just one problem: Although William Woods is a real person, the man is not that person." –Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Reb visits a really messed up hot dog cart from 1988 and a saga that'll make you question everybody's last name. Just to be sure.
This is United States v. Keirans (8th Cir. 2026).
Enjoy.
SOURCES:
8th Circuit Opinion (April 23, 2026): https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/04/251339P.pdf
University of Iowa article: https://stories.uiowa.edu/uipd-detective-unravels-decades-long-identity-scheme
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00:00 - Intro
00:31 - CASE BEGINS.
03:38 - THE FIRST ARREST.
05:17 - FOUR YEARS LATER...
07:40 - (REB RANTS) 23andMe + Prosecutor budgets
12:00 - BACK TO THE CASE.
13:13 - "WILLIAM WOODS".
14:15 - "CALIFORNIA BILL".
16:56 - Campus police are useful for once?!
17:10 - (REB RANTS) Your husband is a psychopath. Act like it.
19:55 - (REB RANTS) You did a good deed. Stop bragging.
21:23 - "WHO IS YOUR SON?"
24:34 - WHO IS MATTHEW KEIRANS?
28:13 - Identity theft statistics.
29:56 - THE SECOND ARREST.
35:16 - the District Attorney said WHAT?!?!??!?!
37:04 - THE CHARGES + LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE.
39:36 - THE APPEAL & OUTCOME (April 2026).
45:30 - REB'S REBUTTAL.
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." –Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men.
Two tiger sharks, a tattoo, and a richocheted bullet off a man's skull.
Reb dives into the Shark Arm Case (1935), the Confrontation Clause, and the Dead Witness Dilemma.
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00:00 - Intro / Setting the Scene
01:02 - PART I: THE SHARK
06:57 - PART II: THE BOXER
12:33 - PART III: SHARK, 1; BULLET, 1; GANGSTERS, 0
25:35 - PART IV: HEARSAY LESSON
34:00 - PART V: THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE
35:29 - Medieval "Trial By Ordeal" was a nightmare
38:16 - WHY DON'T YOU JUST KILL A WITNESS?
39:18 - PART VI: WOULD SHARK ARM TESTIMONY BE ADMISSIBLE TODAY?
43:20 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) One August day in 2019, Ina and David Steiner, a married couple in their late 50s and early 60s respectively, were in their offices at their Natick, Massachusetts home when they each noticed an email pop into their inboxes. The message was bizarre. It said their “wet specimen” was ready and asked, Did they want to accept delivery? . . . .
Reb explains the (very insane, very stupid, very scary) case of United States v. Baugh, et al. (2020).
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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - THE STEINERS.
14:34 - THE EMPLOYERS.
18:27 - THE WEBSITE.
20:45 - THE EMPLOYEES.
21:55 - THE EXECUTIVES.
28:15 - THE MESSAGES.
31:37 - THE CAMPAIGN.
34:17 - THE AFTERMATH.
41:42 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) A psychic, a bitcoin influencer, a 70 year-old bank robber, and a University faculty p*rn star walk into a bar....
Case #1 - Fortune teller Rose Marks and her eight family members swindle $25 million out of vulnerable (rich) people who just want to curse a few people, is all. Unfortunately, one of those victims was a famous author with a lot of ex-husbands. (2013)
Case #2 - A Bitcoin influencer (oof) paid a group of Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputies $20,000 per day to lure people he had beef with to California… (2026)
Case #3 - Kentucky man didn’t want to live with his wife anymore. So, naturally… (2016)
Case #4 - A Chancellor and his wife make a p*rn-o... (2023)
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00:00 - Intro / FYI!
02:34 - CASE #1: OPERATION CRYSTAL BALL
06:20 - Archangels, Africa, and 9/11 (in that order)
10:29 - Victims, for better or worse
11:32 - Jude Deveraux, $17 million star witness
17:23 - JUDE'S EX-HUSBAND TAKES THE STAND
26:01 - Outcome / Sentences
27:53 - CASE #2: COPS LOVE EXTORTING FOR BITCOIN BROS?
32:34 - Cringing
34:32 - CASE #3: BANK ROBBER SAYS WIFE IS TO BLAME
35:50 - CASE #4: CHANCELLOR LOVES P*RN, TELLS EVERYONE
40:10 - Reb's Rebuttal
11:17 - Jelly bean trauma?!?!?!?
13:20 - Let's throw a party about it!
18:55 - RAISING CANE'S LAWSUIT
22:30 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) On a cloudless day in Kentucky in 1876, enough raw meat to cover a football field fell from the sky out of nowhere. No one knows where it came from, but there are theories and (unfortunately) jelly beans.
Reb covers the 1876 Kentucky Meat Shower and Raising Cane's most recent 2026 lawsuit against people who were surprised to learn that a chicken store smells like chicken.
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00:00 - Intro
00:29 - KENTUCKY MEAT SHOWER
11:17 - Jelly bean trauma?!?!?!?
13:20 - Let's throw a party about it!
18:55 - RAISING CANE'S LAWSUIT
22:30 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) A doctor tries to escape a lawsuit over his cows and a cow tries to escape a slaughterhouse over her flesh.
Two cases, one theme. This is Tunnell v. Archer, et al. (2016) and Emily the Cow.
Kamoo.
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Links:
The Peace Abbey—https://www.peaceabbey.org/animal-rights-emily-the-cow/
Book | The Story of Emily the Cow: Bovine Bodhisattva (2008): https://books.google.com.pr/books?id=Yh7ow2u7e84C&printsec=copyright#v=onepage&q&f=false
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00:48 - Tunnell v. Archer, et al. (2016)
04:49 - THE WORST LEGAL DEFENSE I'VE HEARD (today, at least)
12:00 - VERDICT
12:24 - Emily the Cow
17:56 - I LOVE THIS COW SO MUCH I'M CRYING AGAIN
21:20 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) This is our third Reb's Round-Up episode—A rapid-fire (or as rapid as Reb can make it) laundry list of cases that deserve to be included in the Rebuttal Podcast universe but are too short to devote a full episode to.
For this Round-Up, Reb gives you **17 bonus cases** to giggle, scoff, and yell about, including:
A Bar Mitzvah "from hell";
The judge who swore prostitutes make the best soup;
A lawyer who forgot his client was dead;
Seaman's Manslaughter;
A dangerous serial pooper;
The Holy Spirit serves on a jury;
And more...
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00:00 - Intro/DUI makes a cameo!
2:09 - Case #1
5:46 - Case #2
8:16 - Case #3
9:03 - Case #4
12:20 - Case #5
13:33 - Case #6
14:45 - Case #7
17:04 - Case #8
18:48 - Case #9
20:00 - Case #10
21:02 - Case #11
23:24 - Case #12
24:42 - Case #13
26:06 - Case #14
27:00 - Case #15
27:35 - Case #16
28:16 - Case #17
31:59 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE). On November 24, 2002, a medieval catapult violently hurled willing human beings several stories high and into a net 100 feet away. Those who built the catapult and organized the stunt were inspired by a notorious group of misfits from the 1970s.
This is the story of the Dangerous Sports Club and the 2004 manslaughter trial following the tragic killing of Kostydin "Dino" Yankov.
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0:00 - The Case of Kostydin "Dino" Yankov (2002)
7:13 - The Dangerous Sports Club (1977 - ?)
23:12 - The Vanuatu Land Divers who inspired bungee jumping
27:17 - DSC Founder David Kirke defends the catapult
30:20 - Findings from 2004/2005 Trial and Inquest
37:17 - INQUEST HOLDING
39:00 - REB'S REBUTTAL / THE OBITUARY OF DAVID KIRKE
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) This is our second Reb's Round-Up episode—A rapid-fire (or as rapid as Reb can make it) laundry list of cases that deserve to be included in the Rebuttal Podcast universe but are too short to devote a full episode to.
For this Round-Up, Reb gives you **18 bonus cases** to giggle, scoff, and yell about, including:
A 236-page manifesto some local librarians were asked to proofread;
A prosecutor who would've killed it at the Salem Witch Trials;
Drunk driving a Chevy Cooler-ado;
A kidnapping victim pulling an Uno reverse card;
Some really gnarly qualified immunity cases (derogatory);
And more...
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00:37 - Case #1
01:00 - Case #2
01:32 - Case #3
02:16 - Case #4
02:42 - Case #5
04:02 - Case #6
10:58 - Case #7
12:16 - Case #8
13:37 - Case #9
14:09 - Case #10
14:54 - Case #11 **CONTENT WARNING**
15:36 - QUALIFIED IMMUNITY CASES
15:59 - Case #12
16:21 - Case #13
16:44 - Case #14
17:11 - Case #15
17:45 - Case #16
18:13 - Case #17
18:56 - Case #18
19:51 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) A zookeeper love triangle leads to a Christmas party brawl....An Australian man straps raw pork chops to his feet ...A defendant claims caffeine made him do it...Oh, and a Texas mayor resigns over a dog.
Just another day in the Rebuttal Podcast universe. Enjoy!
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00:58 - The Zookeeper Love Triangle
07:05 - The Pork Chop Shoe Guy
15:53 - The Caffeine Insanity Defense?
23:31 - The Dognapping Mayor
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) "Everybody in the art world thinks he's telling the truth, and thinks I'm crazy, but people outside of the art world are skeptical… I know why he [disavowed the painting]. He did it because he can’t draw. Everything he does is projected, and he sketches it from the picture…This painting we have proves it."
Described as one of the "most bizarre art authentication trials in recent memory," Reb unpacks (paints?) Fletcher v. Doig (7th Cir. 2025).***
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00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Case begins
04:18 - What has Peter Doig done?
08:18 - Plaintiffs' counsel is not a quitter
10:34 - OTHER ARTISTS WHO DISAVOWED THEIR WORKS
13:02 - PETER'S LEGAL BUDGET IS HUGE
19:02 - Meanwhile, the Plaintiffs.....
29:39 - U.S. ART MARKET IS THE WILD WEST OF THE LAW
36:47 - What is money laundering, again?
40:29 - TRIAL OUTCOME
29:35 - The sanctions were HOW MUCH?!
51:17 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) "Deadly spiked booby traps, dozens of hunting lodge arsons, a double suicide and now attempted murder of an officer — cops in Louisiana say one family is largely responsible for it all..."
5th Circuit Opinion (2022): https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/20-30731/20-30731-2022-03-15.html
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00:00 - Intro (a...wild one)
02:41 - Case begins
04:26 - Phillips family history
05:14 - Plain Dealing Road is cursed
06:23 - 2010 drama
10:25 - 2011 drama
16:50 - 2012 drama
31:13 - 2013 drama
32:23 - We have no idea when THIS drama happened???
34:59 - Back to 2013 drama
38:54 - 2014, 2015, 2015 drama
51:24 - 2017 drama
57:34 - 2018 drama
1:00:43 - THE APPEAL
1:08:52 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Two cases this episode!
Case #1: Where do Supreme Court Justices watch dirty movies?
Case #2: Rick Springfield's Buttocks of Mass Destruction.
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00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Case #1 begins
09:18 - Case #2 begins
20:58 - THE CRUCIAL EVIDENCE PHOTO
34:02 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) A motorcycle club. A fight club. A kidnappers club. Three men, one victim. But only one of them is convicted.
Reb breaks out her DIY whiteboard for a very helpful visual aid of this very absurd kidnapping story. Spoiler alert: A Hail Mary motion is filed and...wins?!?!
This is United States v. Cornelius Green (2024).
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00:00 - Intro / Important context
05:34 - Case begins
08:01 - The Motion that never gets granted
09:15 - ALL OF THE DRAMA!
18:36 - The trial (and everything wrong with it)
29:23 - Verdict / Appeal
42:12 - Reb's Rebuttal
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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) An IED blowing up your truck and feces in your lunchbox. It’s a workplace of nightmares, and that’s not even the half of it: Add in BB guns, potato guns, and more feces. I’m sure the boss did something about it, right….Right?…..RIGHT....?!?!?!?!
This is our first Reb's Round-Up episode—A rapid-fire (or as rapid as Reb can make it) laundry list of cases that deserve to be included in the Rebuttal Podcast universe but are too short to devote a full episode to. For this Round-Up, Reb gives you **8 bonus cases** to giggle, scoff, and yell about, including:
A scuba diving robbery of a Disney restaurant
A lawsuit against Mormon leaders for messing up the plot (literally)
An answer to one age-old question: Can you get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep?
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0:00 - Welcome to Reb’s Round-Up!
2:00 - Case #1
18:32 - Case #2
19:21 - Case #3
21:30 - Case #4
24:58 - Case #5
26:09 - Case #6
27:30 - Case #7
28:16 - Case #8
32:17 - Reb’s Rebuttal
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