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From Skeptic to True Believer: A Sentencing Lawyer's AI Confession

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Hot Pink Spotlight: The Clancy Mistrial Puts Women's Health on Trial (w/ Nellie King)

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Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty. Here's What Happens Next.

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BOP 2026: Crumbling, Weaponized, but (Finally) Wired?

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The Process is the Punishment: Hannah Dugan Sentencing Post-Mortem

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The Fate of John Bolton: Trump Doesn't Just Pick Who's Prosecuted — Now He Picks Your Prison, Too

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Manifest Injustice: Hunter, Hemani, & Buh-Bye Blanche

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New Compassionate Release Cases: Is the Door to Freedom Shrinking?

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"8647": A New Low for Trump's DOJ

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Negotiating Plea Agreements with Bite (Pt. II of "Straight Up No Chaser")

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Pleading Straight Up, No Chaser! (Part I)

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Atkins & The IQ Fallacy: Why IQ is Not a Reliable Measure of Culpability (with Dr. Ted Lidsky)

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Life for Charles "Sonny" Burton: Act now to Save Sonny!

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What's Crackin' at the Sentencing Commission - New Proposals that Could Change the Shape of Federal Sentencing

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Absolute Power (Pt.II): Clear Messaging in the Age of the Information Maelstrom

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Absolute Power Pt. I: Politization and Weaponization at the DOJ (With Gary Restaino)

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A Look ahead: Sentencing Developments for 2026

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For My Enemies, the Law

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Year End Review (White Collar Support Presentation)

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Understanding Autism with Dr. Nick Dubin

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Illegals: How Trump is Ignoring the Constitution and Laws to Install Loyalist US Attorneys

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Hostility & the Heart, With Joy Bertrand

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Save Robert Roberson.

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Terrible, But Not "Terrorism": the Death of Charlie Kirk

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White Collar Support with Jeff Grant, Esq.

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Maxwell's Silver Hammer (PART II): Transfer to Minimum Camp & Sentencing Post Mortem

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Maxwell's Silver Hammer: Part I

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Holding Court with Judge Nancy Gertner!

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For My Enemies, the Law: The Return of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia

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Due Process Denied (PART II): Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and the "Great Replacement"

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Due Process Denied: Kilmar Abrego-Garcia (PART ONE)

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George Santos Sentencing Post-Mortem

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Seismic Shift: Big Changes to the Sentencing Guidelines & the Country

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Reign of Terror: Tesla, Luigi Mangione, & Beyond

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Anchor's Aweigh: New Policies and New Proposed Guidelines Find Us Unmoored in 2025

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The Truth About Restitution in Federal Criminal Cases with Ashley Adams, Esq.

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The Truth About the Presidential Pardon Power With Margaret Love & Mark Allenbaugh

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2024 United States Sentencing Guideline Amendments: A Front Row Seat to the Kabuki Theatre

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BOP Programming With Dr. Alix McLearen

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The Future of Federal Fraud with Mark Allenbaugh

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The Why of the Where: Mitigation Geo-Narratives with Dr. Julie Urbanik

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Mitigation Films: Harnessing the Power of Visual Narrative to Humanize our Clients

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The BOP Horror Show & What We Can Do About It

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Federal Pre-Trial Diversion With Jon May

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On Deaf Ears: When Sentencing Goes Wrong

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Psychodrama at Sentencing: (PART TWO)

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Psychodrama at Sentencing (PART ONE)

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Outside the Box Defense with Investigator Justin Yentes

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The First Step Act (with Walt Pavlo)

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Bonus YouTube Livestream: Hunter Biden Conviction - What To Expect at Sentencing and is Lawfare Really a Thing?

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Marilyn Mosby Sentencing Post-Mortem

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DePape (Pelosi Attacker) Sentencing Post-Mortem

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Pre-Sentence Reports

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The Artificial Lawyer: A Debate About the Usefulness of A/I in the Legal Arena

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Trump on Trial

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Sam Bankman-Fried: Sentencing Post-Mortem

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Guidelines Blues: The Commission's Next Moves

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When Justice Depends on It: The Need for Professional Standards for Mitigation in All Criminal Cases

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BOP MEANS: Back Off the Punishment: Making the Case That Judges Must Fix the BOP by Imposing Fewer and Shorter Prison Terms

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Indian Country: A Glimpse into Tribal and Federal Indian Criminal (In)Justice

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A Child's Poison: Lead Poisoning as Sentencing Mitigation with Dr. Ted Lidsky

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Year of the Dragon: Sentencing Guideline New Year's Cheers & Jeers

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A Brief Haitus: Set For Sentencing Takin' a Break

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David DePape (Pelosi Attacker): Guidelines & Mitigation Breakdown

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Making Sense of the Georgia Trump RICO Pleas (Vol. I)

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Guideline Tricks & Treats: A Rundown of All New Sentencing Guideline Amendments That Took Effect on 11/1/23

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Untangling Fear For Lawyers & Clients With Prof. Heidi K. Brown

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What is Truth? The Difference Between Reality TV, Documentaries and Sentencing Mitigation Videos

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Sam Bankman-Fried: Is Autism the Missing Piece of Mitigation?

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Imperfect 10: Why thousands will be deemed ineligible for the ZPO and what to do about it

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Danny Masterson Sentencing Post-Mortem

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Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Means "Backwards on Purpose"

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Find the Hurt, Amplify the Pain, Heal the Wound: 3 Steps to Bulletproof Legal Narrative

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GOIN' RETRO: Retroactive Application of ZPO and Status Point Amendments

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BOP Stands for Big Ol' Problems: Exposing Dysfunction & Danger at the Federal Bureau of Prisons

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Straight to Sentencing: Pre-Trial Detention Through the Lens of Sam Bankman-Fried (and DJT)

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Acquitted Conduct Revisited: Mmmmm... Flavors of Evil

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Too Cute By Half: Why Hunter's Plea Went South

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The 3rd Trump Indictment (Sentencing Guidelines): Everything Nowhere All at Once.

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Surviving Pretrial, Vol. 1: Is My Lawyer Any Good?

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The Power of Empathy

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The Cold Hard Truth About White Collar Crime: With Kelly Richmond Pope

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Drugs on the Docket: Data and storytelling in federal drug sentencing and the U.S. Sentencing Commission

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Life in the Shadow of Death, With Cyndy Short

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Diversion Perversion: Hunter Biden's Super Sweet Plea Deal

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What About Walt: Sentencing Implications for Trump Co-Defendant, Waltine Nauta

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Reality Check: Unpacking the Trump Indictment

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Stewart Rhodes Seditious Conspiracy Sentencing Post-Mortem

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The Zero Point Offender Guideline Amendment: The ZIPPO IS ON FIRE!

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Surrender Georgie: Possible Sentencing outcomes for George Santos Indictment

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JSIN: Will "Judicial Sentencing Information" Mutilate the Stats or Slash Sentences?

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Overcoming Impossible Odds at Sentencing (Fearless Lawyering, Vol. 3, with Joel Meyers)

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The Power of a State "Sentencing Study" (with Rich Robertson)

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Fearless Lawyering, Vol. 2: Exposing the Racist Origins of U.S. Immigration Law with Kara Hartzler

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BIG Guideline Changes on the Horizon (With Mark Allenbaugh)

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Defending Autism With Mark Mahoney (Pt. 2)

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Defending Autism With Mark Mahoney (Pt. 1)

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Three Years of Hell: Responding to the Bureau of Prison's Abysmal Failures in Preventing, Treating, and Reporting Covid..

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Inside Rikers Island & Beyond With Prison Consultant Craig Rothfeld

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Mental Disabilities at Sentencing