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63:30

Christa Pike and removing the lethal injection...

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2026/10/08

Send us Fan Mail Christa Pike's botched lethal injection execution attempt and Donald Trump's recent order to execute Nidal Hasan by firing squad have capital punishment front and center with the American public. Firing squad killing is visually gruesome, whereas lethal injection hides the torture suffered by the person condemned to the death chamber, except when the lethal injection gets botched, as with Christa Pike. Ms. Pike's lawyers told the authorities long ago that her narrow veins ris...

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58:50

Winning with fearless top-notch trial preparation and...

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2026/10/01

Send us Fan Mail The Constitution's Sixth Amendment and its appellate interpretations provide for effective assistance of counsel against criminal prosecutions, regardless of the defendant's ability to pay. Virginia's public defender system delivers beneficial service, but is broken when it comes to the significant percentage of court-appointed private-practicing lawyers, who are ordinarily paid too little to give full meaning to the Sixth Amendment, leaving a devotion to clients and not pay ...

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61:32

Winning with internal energy, yielding and...

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2026/09/26

Send us Fan Mail When Fairfax, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz first attended taijiquan sparring / sensing hands / push hands summer weekend gatherings of students of great t'ai chi ch'uan teacher Julian Chu (a prior Beat the Prosecution podcast interviewee), he met today's guest Shyh-Ching Lo, M.D. Without an ounce of ego -- as it should be -- and full of generosity in teaching and sharing, Dr. Lo has taught and reminded Jon about the importance in sensing hands of timing, se...

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59:51

Winning by humanizing criminal defendants- Joe...

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2026/09/11

Send us Fan Mail Life's twists and turns bring us to a plethora of destinations, byways, and discoveries by surprise, out of order, and at dizzyingly varying speeds. Who would have thought that my first law firm job would lead me to meet true believer criminal defense and civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies, via his conservative father (and my essential mentor) Irv Margulies (see his eye opening unglossed interview on his WWII combat experience in Germany) congratulating my transition to pub...

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54:33

Winning like a ball of fire- Ethan Nadelmann

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2026/09/04

Send us Fan Mail At the NORML conference around 2000, the Drug Policy Alliance's leader Ethan Nadelmann was entertaining, informing and inspiring the converted. At one point, he exclaimed along the lines of "I haven't tried that drug............ yet." That unleashed my laughter, coming from this well respected and effective leader to dismantle the drug wars and to replace them with lawful intravenous needle exchange, legal injection sites, overhauling the imprisonment system that made the Uni...

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60:33

Winning with total focus on clients & justice- Anam...

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2026/08/26

Send us Fan Mail To persuade others, it is important to transform oneself not only to their perspective, but their full being, feelings, relevant experiences, sense of place and even unsettlement, and thought process. That approach, with psychodrama (working out challenges with role playing, reverse role playing, and scene setting), is a big part of the Trial Lawyers College, which I attended for a full month, and which is featured in several of my Beat The Prosecution interviews. Anam ...

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54:15

Winning by integrating with the moment- Patrick Barone

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2026/08/13

Send us Fan Mail Michigan lawyer Patrick Barone is the third Beat the Prosecution podcast guest who has both attended the Trial Lawyers College and been active with the National College for DUI Defense. Patrick for years pursued a DWI defense focus before attending the TLC, and then he jumped both feet forward into intensive learning and training with psychodrama -- which is a major feature of the Trial Lawyers College that has been covered numerous times on this podcast -- becoming certified...

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61:58

Winning through clarity and resilience- Thubten Chodron

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2026/07/30

Send us Fan Mail Buddhist nun Venerable Thubten Chodron of Sravasti Abbey returns for a second time to talk with Fairfax, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz, this time to discuss Venerable's 2025 book incorporating experiential stories from inmates, and also the beautiful artwork by many of them, entitled The Key of Compassion- Finding Meaning Where You Least Expect It. The ideal for a criminal defendant is to avoid conviction and incarceration. However, judges and court magistra...

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52:18

Winning before trial even begins- Kim Benjamin

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2026/07/23

Send us Fan Mail Winning for criminal defendants integrates teaming up closely and well with our clients, life experience, successful trial experience, improving ourselves, and persuasively engaging others, for starters. Our podcast guest Kimberly Benjamin, in Missouri, includes integrating the approaches of the Trial Lawyers College, the National College of DUI Defense and more to start obtaining justice for defendants even before any trial starts. I first learned about Kim through o...

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58:04

Winning while transcending crimmigration hurdles

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2026/07/15

Send us Fan Mail Non-United States citizens are at more risk than in decades with their criminal cases, and many times starting while the prosecution is still pending in court. Harsh treatment of non-U.S. citizens did not start from whole cloth with Donald Trump, but he and his tough-on-immigrants supporters have taken the matter to an entirely higher quantum level. And still we have safeguards, including the Senate's non-action on H.R. 875, which would have made green card holders deportable...

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57:03

Winning by sowing the seeds of empowerment- Leah...

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2026/07/01

Send us Fan Mail WINNING BY SOWING THE SEEDS OF EMPOWERMENT Interviewee Leah Penniman and Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz are good friends with Jon's essential peace teacher (and prior Beat the Prosecution podcast guest) Jun Yasuda, whose beautiful peace pagoda is less than two miles from Leah's Soul Fire Farm. Leah's story is one of never giving up nor giving in, which is also essential for criminal defense. She experienced substantial racism while growing up, and kept perseverin...

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61:23

Winning with resilience while ready for danger- Fleet...

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2026/06/11

Send us Fan Mail Fleet Maull inspires Fairfax, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz for his extensive experience applying mindfulness with highly challenging situations, making the most of his fourteen years in prison for a drug conviction, and emerging from prison continuing to help inmates and by now helping so many people beyond those in the criminal justice system, with resilience while ready for the dangers that can lurk around the corner. (Check out this month's free online S...

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59:37

Winning without wishful thinking and by converting...

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2026/06/05

Send us Fan Mail Obtaining justice in court is a never-ending process of learning; self-development; blood, sweat and tears; self discovery; inter-discovery; often deep pain that can transform into strength and growth, but often with more pain along the way; banding together with birds of a feather; and giving back what we have learned. Texas criminal defense lawyer -- moved recently from Houston to Maryland -- Eric J. Davis (until he has a website, reachable at eric.davis@gmx.us and 713-227-...

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57:38

Winning as the jurors' trustworthy & entertaining...

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2026/05/29

Send us Fan Mail Jurors and others do not get persuaded by brute force, badgering nor begging. Often a criminal defense or other trial lawyer obtains traction by putting themselves in the shoes of the thirteenth juror. When my teacher Gerry Spence was on his road to obtaining an acquittal for Geoffrey Fieger, he reportedly one day walked along the jury rail sweeping his palm alongside its top, as if erasing the barrier between him and the jurors. Fairfax criminal lawyer Jon Katz's gues...

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58:50

Winning through engagement as one's true self-...

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2026/05/21

Send us Fan Mail Winning through engagement as one's true self- Dallas attorney Patrick McLain joins fellow Trial Lawyers College alum and Fairfax criminal lawyer Jon Katz in discussing revealing our true selves -- warts and all -- to jurors and judges, so that they will also be true to themselves and each other and to their oaths. Jon Katz met Patrick -- a Trial Lawyers College faculty member -- through the monthly trial preparation gatherings hosted by fellow Trial Lawyers College a...

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58:47

Winning with MacGuffins and heroes' journeys- Andrew...

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2026/05/14

Send us Fan Mail The Trial Lawyers College -- which your host Jonathan Katz attended in 1995, followed to this day during the year with periodic trial preparation gatherings of TLC alums and others (shout out to our repeat co-host, criminal defense lawyer supreme, and my decades-long friend Christopher Flohr for hosting such monthly gatherings for years at his Maryland law office) -- makes clear that the TLC does not "offer training for those lawyers who represent government, corporations or ...

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59:50

Winning with resilience & compassion for all sentient...

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2026/04/16

Send us Fan Mail Criminal defense lawyers can learn plenty from non-lawyers who courageously and optimistically blaze their own trails, stick to their guns in very challenging times, are resilient, and keep on blazing trails. For Fairfax, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Katz, Miyoko Schinner fits that bill. Miyoko Schinner became a vegan, missed the dairy that she loved with pasta and other dishes, and became a pioneer with Miyoko's Creamery, which quickly went nationwide on major ...

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57:50

Winning by standing up to police- Afroman's / Joseph...

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2026/04/07

Send us Fan Mail Afroman / Joseph Edgar Foreman turned lemons into lemonade (or was that Lemon Poundcake?) after police executed a search warrant on his home and were left without incriminating evidence, unless a few blunts is incriminating. Instead of complaining about that on social media and in letters to newspaper editors, rapper Joseph Foreman turned the camera onto police and included creating and performing songs about the incident, including his humorous "Lemon Poundcake" music video ...

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62:28

Winning with cunning, presence, insight & unrattled...

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2026/03/26

Send us Fan Mail Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz believes strongly in finding calm in the eye of the storm while pursuing his criminal defense clients' best defense in court. Among the criminal defense lawyers who struck Jon Katz early on with their ability and devotion to their clients -- and remaining unrattled in court -- is Lenny Stamm. While a law clerk at a general practice law firm, Lenny met his mentor Alan Goldstein, who was known widely in Maryland for his excellen...

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53:55

Winning with fierce civility- Coach Joe Weston talks...

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2026/03/18

Send a text Conflict prevention coach, TEDx speaker on curing chronic niceness, adviser to inmates, and stress management consultant Joe Weston talks about applying the same taijiquan form that Fairfax criminal defense lawyer Jon Katz practices daily, Fierce Civility and Respectful Confrontation to court and beyond. Check out Joe's books, Global Heart Gathering and TedTalk. Jon Katz has known Joe Weston for years, and recommends his writings, talks and services. This podc...

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