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Episode 309: Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America – Part 40
Katherine Mader spent two decades as a judge in Los Angeles Criminal Court, before retiring early in 2020. Before that she was the LAPD’s first Inspector General, prosecuted two murder-for-hire trials and served as a defense attorney who convinced a jury to spare the life of the Hillside Strangler. In August of this year, Judge Mader published Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America, which best selling author Michael Connelly called: “a perfect book: engrossing and telling at the same time.” The Judge has granted Crime Story permission to excerpt the entirety of her book...
Episode 308: Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America – Part 39
Katherine Mader spent two decades as a judge in Los Angeles Criminal Court, before retiring early in 2020. Before that she was the LAPD’s first Inspector General, prosecuted two murder-for-hire trials and served as a defense attorney who convinced a jury to spare the life of the Hillside Strangler. In August of this year, Judge Mader published Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America, which best selling author Michael Connelly called: “a perfect book: engrossing and telling at the same time.” The Judge has granted Crime Story permission to excerpt the entirety of her book...
Episode 307: The Robert Durst Trial: Durst Wonders to Judge if His Lawyers “Were Experiencing Temporary Insanity or Collective Dementia”
You can find links to all of CRIME STORY’S coverage of the Robert Durst trial here. Robert Durst lodged some shockingly critical assertions about his lawyers in a Los Angeles Court today. The assertions were delivered in the form of a letter as Judge Mark E. Windham was wrapping up a hearing for defense motions for a mistrial in advance of the planned May 17 resumption of Durst's trial for the murder of his friend, Susan Berman. In Crime Story's March 18 piece about last month's Readiness Hearing for the case, we reported the surprise development that Durst sought to personally raise...
Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America – Part 38
Katherine Mader spent two decades as a judge in Los Angeles Criminal Court, before retiring early in 2020. Before that she was the LAPD’s first Inspector General, prosecuted two murder-for-hire trials and served as a defense attorney who convinced a jury to spare the life of the Hillside Strangler. In August of this year, Judge Mader published Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America, which best selling author Michael Connelly called: “a perfect book: engrossing and telling at the same time.” The Judge has granted Crime Story permission to excerpt the entirety of her book...
Episode 306: Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America – Part 38
Katherine Mader spent two decades as a judge in Los Angeles Criminal Court, before retiring early in 2020. Before that she was the LAPD’s first Inspector General, prosecuted two murder-for-hire trials and served as a defense attorney who convinced a jury to spare the life of the Hillside Strangler. In August of this year, Judge Mader published Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America, which best selling author Michael Connelly called: “a perfect book: engrossing and telling at the same time.” The Judge has granted Crime Story permission to excerpt the entirety of her book...
Episode 305: Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America – Part 37
Katherine Mader spent two decades as a judge in Los Angeles Criminal Court, before retiring early in 2020. Before that she was the LAPD’s first Inspector General, prosecuted two murder-for-hire trials and served as a defense attorney who convinced a jury to spare the life of the Hillside Strangler. In August of this year, Judge Mader published Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America, which best selling author Michael Connelly called: “a perfect book: engrossing and telling at the same time.” The Judge has granted Crime Story permission to excerpt the entirety of her book...