Kary Antholis

On this episode of Jury Duty: The Robert Durst Prosecutor Speaks Los Angeles Deputy DA John Lewin describes his team’s process of interviewing witnesses, deciding which witnesses were critical to his case and the process by which conditional witness examinations were recorded in the years after the charges were filed but before the trial began. Specifically, he discusses the examinations of Durst friend Nick Chavin, Medical School Dean Albert Kuperman, and NYPD Detective Michael Struck.

On this episode of Jury Duty: The Robert Durst Prosecutor Speaks Los Angeles Deputy DA John Lewin takes us through his epic two and a half hour interview with Robert Durst in a New Orleans Jail.

On this episode of Jury Duty: The Robert Durst Prosecutor Speaks Los Angeles Deputy DA John Lewin explains how he became involved in the Robert Durst case and the pivotal role that the filmmakers of the HBO documentary, The Jinx, played in his involvement.

The first two seasons of this podcast explored the trial of Robert Durst, who was convicted in 2021 of the murder of his good friend and confidante, Susan Berman. This Bonus fifth season of Jury Duty is a special deep dive back into that case. In Jury Duty: The Robert Durst Prosecutor Speaks, we have secured a series of exclusive interviews with LA Deputy District Attorney John Lewin, the lead prosecutor in that trial. We will present our conversations with John by tracking his journey from the very beginning of his involvement with the case, through the trial, and through the...

You can find a collection of media coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial here. On this episode of Jury Duty: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, host Kary Antholis is joined one last time by Abbe Smith who serves as Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic at Georgetown University. Together, Kary and Abbe discuss the strategy and the effectiveness of the rebuttal closing by Prosecutor James Kraus, as well as the jury questions to the judge, the defense team’s second motion for mistrial, some of the comments by Judge Bruce Schroeder during deliberations and...

You can find a collection of media coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial here. This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Conclusion of Jury Deliberations & Verdict, we conclude our coverage of the trial proceedings with some of the events that occurred during the final two days of Jury deliberations as well as the reading of the verdicts in the trial.