Kary Antholis

Team Crime Story:This week brought reports on a key decision in litigation over D.A. George Gascón's policy directives, the initiation of a new police reform program and we continued our presentation of the series by Katherine Mader. Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. On Monday, we reported that an L.A. Superior Court Judge ruled mostly in favor of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County in a petition brought against District Attorney George Gascón, saying he cannot order his prosecutors to ignore laws that the union says protect the public, including three-strike...

Team Crime Story:This week brought further developments in the controversies over D.A. George Gascón's policy directives and we continued our presentation of the series by Katherine Mader. Welcome to our summary of the week's events at CrimeStory.com and The Crime Story Podcast. On Wednesday, we presented a City News Service Report on a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing focused on L.A. District Attorney Gorge Gascón's directives eliminating three-strikes allegations and some sentencing enhancements. During the hearing, the union representing L.A. prosecutors urged a judge to issue a preliminary injunction stopping the D.A. from enforcing those directives. A lawyer for Gascón responded that such a ruling...

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...