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Kary Antholis: Welcome to Jury Duty, a podcast from Crime Story Media. We are joined today by my colleague Molly Miller. Molly Miller: Hello. Kary Antholis: And our very special guest is Rachel Rossi, candidate for... Our guest is Rachel Rossi, candidate for district attorney of Los Angeles. Rachel, welcome. Thank you for being here with us today. Rachel Rossi: Thanks so much for having me. Glad to be here. Kary Antholis: What I'd like to do today is focus on your narrative, your story. Beginning with where you grew up, what your upbringing was like, what were the formative moments in your education and your upbringing? Who...

This is the seventh episode of jury duty, a weekly podcast forum for the discussion of crime and justice storytelling news and narrative analysis brought to you by Crime Story Media. This episode features a conversation between your truly Crime Story Publisher and Editor Kary Antholis and Crime story reporter Molly Miller. Today we focused on Molly‘s recent reporting on the Los Angeles District Attorney race as well as our coverage of the second Los Angeles District Attorney debate. During the discussion we reference Molly’s article on the second L.A. D.A. debate which you can find here.

It was minutes after the conclusion of the most recent District Attorney debate in downtown Los Angeles and the crowd was just starting to spill from the Aratani Theatre. Among them, a man garbed in khakis and a gingham button-up held a cellphone to his ear and kept his eyes on the ground as he gave the listener his take on the event. “You know how it feels like the world is fucking on fire? Yeah, this was no different.” The DA debate on Wednesday, January 29 was a melee: part protest, part political cage match and part radio broadcast. No...

I’ve long suspected that the third floor of the downtown Los Angeles criminal courts building is the busiest waiting room in the world. At 9:00 each morning its halls are bristling with fleet-footed defense attorneys, well-tailored Deputy DAs, smiley clerks, jittery defendants, huddled family members, animated translators, bleary-eyed witnesses and boisterous police officers. The collection results in a rowdy rumble more reminiscent of a school assembly than a courthouse. The third floor is home to the preliminary courts. On an average day, each court has roughly 20 items on its docket. That’s 20 cases that must be heard before the presiding...

Our guest on Jury Duty this week is Bill Hodgman. Mr. Hodgman served in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office for over 40 years until his retirement in 2019. During the last eight of those years, Bill served as the Assistant District Attorney overseeing the office’s line operations. In 1994 and 1995, he was one of the lead prosecutors in the double-murder prosecution of O.J. Simpson. I spoke with Bill by phone last Saturday, the day of the 25th anniversary of the commencement of oral arguments in the Simpson trial. My aim was to explore the many facets of...

Kary Antholis: This is the Crime Story Podcast with Kary Antholis where stories of crime and justice are told. Today’s podcast is the second part of my two-part conversation with Ezra Edelman, Producer and Director of the Oscar and Emmy winning, ten hour documentary O.J.: Made in America. The conversation was recorded as part of a series of classes that I taught at The University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Each week I would host an artist for a discussion that would help us better understand their values and aims as storytellers in the world of crime and justice. During this...