Kary Antholis

The L.A. Times reported on Friday that Los Angeles D.A. George Gascón made an exception to his directive barring prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the case of Michael Gargiulo, where Gascón "said he would not order 'the trial lawyers to adopt his policy regarding the death penalty and does not order them to ask for dismissal of the death penalty jury verdict.'" The court filing by Gascón represents another twist in the controversies over Gascón's directives as D.A. On Wednesday we presented a City News Service report about the legal battle between the D.A.'s office and...

Team Crime Story:This week brought the announcements of two new TV Series from Crime Story Media. We continued our presentation of the series by Katherine Mader. And, we re-presented our latest piece about the Robert Durst Murder Trial. Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. On Thursday we called attention to this week's announcements of Crime Story media projects at HBO (based Season three of the "Serial" Podcast with LeBron James and others producing) and Apple TV+ (based on the book "In with the Devil" with Dennis Lehane writing and producing). You can read those stories here. On...

Team Crime Story:This week at Crime Story we continued our presentation of the series by Katherine Mader and we featured an interview about the the upcoming Impeachment trial with a scholar who happens to be my brother. Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. Yesterday, we presented my interview with William Antholis entitled "High Crimes Story 2" — The Second Impeachment of Donald Trump. Bill serves as director and CEO of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history. Immediately prior, he served as managing...

Kary Antholis: My guest today is William Antholis. Bill serves as director and CEO of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history. Immediately prior, he served as managing director at The Brookings Institution for 10 years. He also is the author of the book Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global which explores how country-sized provinces and states in the world’s two biggest nations are increasingly becoming global players. In addition to all of that, Bill is my younger brother and, with the House...

Team Crime Story:This week at Crime Story we continued our presentation of series by Sean Smith and Katherine Mader and we featured breaking news on the Los Angeles D.A.'s efforts to follow through on campaign promises to transform his office. Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. On Tuesday, we presented the second installment of our Crime Story Series: Nuremberg by Sean Smith, the timely and timeless story of the effort to use international law to criminalize and condemn the menace embodied in the Nazi German leadership. In Part 2 of Nuremberg, Sean examines the...

This video juxtaposes the words of President Donald J. Trump to his supporters against the images of those supporters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. (The video contains some graphic images.) Our aim in presenting the video is to offer a visceral sense of how a leader's rhetoric may incite criminal action in his followers. Sources: AP Washington Post The Telegraph Status Coup Getty Images Reuters Hunter Walker USA Today Leigh Ann Caldwell @petekrilldontgiveafuck at TikTok Marcus DiPaola Emily Giangreco and others credited in videos edited by the above sources. Produced and Edited by Kary Antholis for Crime Story Media,...