Rebuttal

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In 500 BC, corrupt judges were treated a little differently than the ones we have today. The punishments have changed, but one question remains the same: What do we do when judges can't stop taking bribes? Hold onto your birthday suit, Reb is slicing open The Judgment of Cambyses (~530 BC). (Side note: A 30-MINUTE EPISODE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!) Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - The Cursed Envelope Case 02:38 - Judge Sisamnes gets flayed 11:22 - Impartiality is important... 12:37 - ...but Supreme Court Justices play dirty (gasp) 15:58 - Justice Thomas 18:29 - Justice Gorsuch 19:35 - Recusal reform please 21:31 - Justice Alito 22:28 - Don't get it twisted 23:43 - Justice Alito 25:02 - Justice Sotomayor 26:12 - A CODE OF CONDUCT THAT WORKS WOULD BE COOL 29:53 - Reb's Rebuttal  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) A paid informant who should've been fired, a police officer who LOVES a good eraser, and a dad who can't stop bragging about his poor sons. Grab a bag of baking soda and a large Coke and hear Reb snitch on Albright v. Oliver (1994). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 2:26 - Legal mumbo jumbo you should know before we begin 9:00 - Reb's rant on wrongful arrests 13:31 - Why do malicious prosecution cases rarely succeed? 15:22 - Albright v. Oliver (1994) 19:59 - The worst informant draft pick of all time 21:26 - The old man from Up beats the allegations 24:58 - Every son under the bus 29:12 - Shut your mouth (pt. 45457493589295) + Albright's lawsuit 33:09 - The Court of Appeal agrees it was a huge bummer at least 39:05 - SCOTUS opinion 41:10 - Albright v. Oliver and malicious prosecution = a whole mess 43:30 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) What do you call a 6-week period in which you and a handful of very recent acquaintances get drunk every day at lunch, sleep through the afternoons, sell weed to each other, smoke weed with each other, and whip out a few bags of cocaine to snort when the time feels right? For a group of twelve people in Florida in 1987, they would call it jury duty. That’s right. Since 1987, jury misconduct stories only got crazier and crazier...including one where a jury convicted a man of double homicide by breaking out a Ouija board and asking the victims' ghosts. Yep. Reb tops off a martini and hosts a seance in Tanner v. United States (1987). *** 0:00 - Intro 2:17 - Facts of Tanner v. United States 12:39 - Trial (Coke, Booze, and Court) 23:00 - Rule 606(b) and SCOTUS Majority Opinion 40:53 - SCOTUS Dissenting Opinion 54:11 - Juror misconduct still haunts us 56:19 - SCOTUS heard our complaints and ignored them<3 58:59 - Remedies for juror misconduct 1:01:10 - Case after case after case (Delusional, sleeping, drunk, racist jurors) 1:10:00 - The Ouija Board Jury 1:19:35 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In the early hours of Saturday, May 15, 2010, Kalief Browder and a friend were returning home from a party in the Belmont section of the Bronx. He was 16 years old. Browder saw a police car driving toward them. More squad cars arrived, and soon Browder and his friend were squinting in the glare of a police spotlight. An officer said they had robbed a man. “I didn’t rob anybody,” Browder replied. “You can check my pockets.” . . . Reb shares the cases of Kalief Browder and Inmate H, and thousands of other children and adults held in pretrial detention in the United States without ever being convicted of a crime. Some people say cash bail “creates Hell on Earth.” You might just believe them. **CONTENT WARNING** Violence against children Links: https://www.facebook.com/KaliefsLegacy?mibextid=LQQJ4d https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-case-for-cash-bail-reform/ --- 2:21 - Kalief Browder 14:45 - Rikers Island 17:33 - Pretrial Detention, Cash Bail, and Depravity 22:38 - Inmate H 31:29 - Rikers Island Origins / #CloseRikers 37:18 - Cash Bail Reform 45:45 - A Murderer, A R*pist, and A Traffic Violator 47:38 - Cash Bail Reform 57:40 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Do political assassinations even happen in the U.S. anymore? Apparently yes. Yes, they do. Get ready to change your middle name, sue Puerto Rico for speaking Spanish, move to a hog farm in Tennessee, and learn that write-in ballots never win (except for the rare, *bloody* exception). Reb brings a murder weapon to the voting booth in Tennessee v. Byron (Low Tax) Looper (2000). TRIGGER WARNING for sexual assault/abuse. Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 2:36 - Byron's early life 4:30 - West Point 8:55 - Honorable discharge to politics pipeline 12:38 - Young Democrats of Georgia/Byron has a temper?! 14:00 - Byron and the 1988 GA Democratic primary 20:41 - Byron gets #educated 21:38 - #PuertoRicoGate 32:46 - Byron meets Terri Guess in TN 39:43 - DUMP HIM 43:43 - Byron changes his middle name to (Low Tax).....and it works??? 1:03:03 - Senator Tommy Burks 1:08:17 - Byron's been busy 1:09:00 - The last day of his life 1:14:44 - Looper v. Burks 1:19:21 - The arrest 1:21:30 - The ballot's a mess 1:22:02 - Charlotte Burks 1:25:56 - What's the evidence? 1:43:53 - The aftermath 1:45:50 - CONSPIRACY AROUND LOOPER'S DEATH 1:54:03 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Beef between rappers keeps music alive and well. But what happens when a video of you lip syncing to rap lyrics at a party helps put you away for murder? Hear all about it with Reb at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Larry Jean Hart v. Texas (2024). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 4:01 - Sneak peek of Hart v. Texas (2024) 4:37 - Background - Can lyrics be used as evidence? 12:45 - Hart v. Texas begins / What happened at trial? 24:02 - Hart's first appeal 27:38 - Hart's second appeal 28:31 - Probative value of the rap videos 33:49 - Prejudicial effect of the rap videos 47:57 - Prosecution's need for the evidence 54:05 - Harm analysis 1:01:06 - Holding 1:01:59 - Reb's rebuttal 1:02:42 - Tiny teaser for Episode 26! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Since Biblical times, self defense has been simple. Guard your castle. Retreat to the wall. Defend yourself. The U.S. stole its common law from the English, and the elements of self defense didn't change. Until.......Florida. Why did Florida change its slogan from the Sunshine State to the Kill At Will State? Aren't Stand Your Ground Laws a good thing? How old is the Castle Doctrine? Whose castle is it anyway? Reb lowers the drawbridge on the madness and teaches you all the wheres and whens and hows on who is really allowed to "defend" themselves. **CONTENT WARNING** Racial violence and violence against women and children. 0:00 - Content Warning 2:24 - Intro 8:08 - Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/Tamir Rice 10:07 - Philando Castile 15:00 - People v. White (2010) 26:16 - Duty to Retreat 30:05 - The Castle Doctrine 30:45 - Beard v. United States (1895) 31:10 - People v. Tomlins (1914) 34:15 - Background on SYG Laws 36:00 - Self-defense elements/Duty to retreat 43:45 - SYG Laws and Imminence 46:27 - Removing Imminence > Race/Gender/DV 52:53 - Bernard Goetz (1986) 56:20 - Kathy & James Workman (Fla. 2004) 58:41 - The NRA & SYG 59:30 - Jimmy Morningstar (2003) 1:04:30 - Charles Harper (2009) 1:06:00 - Pedro Roteta (2011) 1:10:13 - Duty to retreat 1:11:10 - Domestic Violence & The Castle Doctrine 1:20:17 - Deven Grey (2017) / Brittany Joyce Smith (2018) 1:22:03 - Collected cases of men using SYG Laws successfully 1:23:41 - Peggy Stewart Case (1988) 1:31:18 - Kansas Supreme Court is on my sh*t list 1:32:00 - "Reasonableness" for a woman 1:33:50 - Collected cases on DV victims and Castle Doctrine/SYG 1:47:00 - Castle Doctrine clashes with Knock + Announce Rule 1:48:32 - Breonna Taylor *** DONATE https://www.trayvonmartinfoundation.org/ https://michaelodbrown.org/ https://www.tamirericefoundation.org/donate https://www.philandocastilefoundation.org/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/freedom-and-reentry-fund-for-deven-grey https://justiceforbreonna.org/ *** COMPLETE SOURCE LIST IN YOUTUBE EPISODE NOTES Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Humans have been digging moats, slingshotting arrows, poisoning food, and laying spikes for thousands of years — and modern day booby traps are still alive and well. But what do an Indiana Jones-inspired hot tub contraption and a haunted house’s 20-gauge shotgun have in common? Vengeance. This episode starts the engine for Episode 24’s deep dive into self-defense, "Stand Your Ground" laws, defense of property, and the Castle Doctrine. But first, listen to Reb pick tibia bones and shotgun pellets off the floor in Katko v. Briney (1971). *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) There are 3 reasons one of the most important 4th Amendment rules in America exists as it does today: (1) Boxers in the criminal underworld, (2) A bomb in the house of famous boxing promoter Don King, and (3) Dollree "Dolly" Mapp - The young black woman who dated bad boys and stood up to an all-white police force in Baltimore...and won. What started as a mobster/boxer gambling ring turned into a 4-year battle over...you guessed it...nude magazines. Come with Reb to throw some punches and start a Dolly fan club in Mapp v. Ohio (1961). INTRO/CONTEXT: 0:00-7:29 CASE BEGINS: 7:30 *** Sources Cited: Ken Armstrong, “Dollree Mapp, 1923-2014: “The Rosa Parks of the Fourth Amendment,” The Marshall Project (Dec. 8, 2014) https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/08/dollree-mapp-1923-2014-the-rosa-parks-of-the-fourth-amendment Carolyn N. Long, “Mapp v. Ohio: Guarding Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures” (2006) ClevelandMemory.Org, “Mapp v. Ohio - 367 U.S. 643 (1961), https://www.clevelandmemory.org/legallandmarks/mapp/decision.html Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) We protect the witnesses from the public, but who protects the public from the witnesses? Peek behind the curtain of the Witness Protection Program and prepare to be shocked, afraid, and bamboozled. Take cover with Reb and start questioning everything and everyone in United States v. Wilson (1981). **CONTENT WARNING at 58:52 for violence against children** *** SOURCES [chronological order by reference or cite]: United States v. Wilson (1981) Secord v. Schlachter (1983) https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP09S00048R000100020104-6.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59212-2004Jun21_4.html https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000605840009-1.pdf https://www.copvcia.com/free/ciadrugs/Ed_Wilson_1.html Karen S. Cooperstein, Enforcing Judgments Against Participants in the Witness Protection Program, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 1017 (1984) Michal Gilad, Who Will Protect The Children?: The Untold Story of Unaccompanied Minors In Witness Protection Programs, 12 Whittier J. Child & Fam. Advoc. 43 (2012) Raneta Lawson Mack, The Federal Witness Protection Program Revisited and Compared: Reshaping An Old Weapon To Meet New Challenges in the Global Crime Fighting Effort, U. Miami Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 191 (2014). Tanya Asim Cooper, Sacrificing the Child To Convict The Defendant: The Secondary Traumatization of Child Witnesses By Prosecutors, Their Inherent Conflict of Interest, and the Need For Child Witness Counsel, 9 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y & Ethics J. 239 (2011) Laura Perry, What's In A Name?, 46 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1563 (2009) https://www.baltimoresun.com/2003/04/26/youth-is-found-fatally-shot-after-being-called-as-witness/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2017/10/31/witness-protection-program-who-protects-public/748986001/ Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Most people would like to keep their heads. Thomas Donaldson isn't one of them. This mathematician and computer scientist wanted his cut off, and he wanted it to be done while he was still alive. Bring a warm jacket and follow Reb into the frozen head refrigerator for Donaldson v. Lungren (1992). INTRO/REB CHAT: 0:00-19:32 CASE STARTS: 19:32 *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Breathing through chemical smoke has been described as “drowning on dry land.” When one imagines chemical warfare, they often imagine a striking image of filthy soldiers choking in trenches on the frontlines through thick fogs of yellow-green gas.  In 1993, the Convention on Chemical Weapons sought to end chemical warfare as we know it. 20 years later, the international treaty the U.S. signed in 1997 to ban and stop the creation, sale, and export of chemical weapons for warfare around the globe led us to an unusual suspect in an unusual place—Carol Anne Bond, a 34-year old microbiologist living with her husband in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Carol Anne Bond was not a soldier.  She was not welding steel cylinders of chlorine gas to be released over trenches in Belgium. She was not spraying 19.3 million gallons of chemical herbicides over Vietnam. She was not using white phosphorus against civilians in Fallujah or Syria. She was not a guerrilla fighter on the front lines, a terrorist, or a military contractor.  She was an angry wife. Hold your breath and wash your hands. This is Bond v. United States (2014). *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pararescue is the most highly decorated Air Force-enlisted force, executing the most perilous, demanding, and extreme rescue missions at anytime, anywhere around the globe. Their motto is: "These Things We Do, That Others May Live." Pararescue Staff Sergeant James D. Pou was so legendary, he became the "gold standard" for how the Air Force drills its trainees. He died a hero. So why did the June 2, 1993 L.A. Times headline read: "Bigamist, Deserter Escapes From Air Force Brig"....? Grab a parachute and jump into the interstate scandal of one legendary Airman/escape artist, two wives, two affairs, five kids, one bank robbery, and a military prison break. Reb debriefs the military's very own "justice" system and why you can't lead a triple life if you can't keep your gun dry in U.S. v. Pou (1995). *** CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE INTRO: 00:00 to 8:09 CASE BEGINS: 8:10 Alternate Title: These Things We Do, That Douglas May Live. *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plug your nose and cross your heart - a rotting corpse is on the stand. 1,126 years ago, Rome was going through Popes like napkins at a BBQ cook-off. Most of them were killed, tortured, maimed, spit on...by each other. Eventually, Desperate Housewives and the Catholic Church collided to exhume a body and strap him to a chair. Why did we put a dead body on trial in 897 AD...and again in 2013? Oh, and can you marry someone after you die? As always, Reb gives you the answers, blessings, and vengeance in Cadaver Synod. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/i1jsE4PcBRk?si=ErAF4rYdDk6e9d5n *** Special, special thank you to @tanicaesar at Unhinged History for having me on her pod in September 2023 to ramble about this case with vodka and laughter. Listen to Unhinged History on Spotify, Apple, YouTube. Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Illinois attorneys John Steele and Paul Hansmeier had an X-rated dream: to represent the “little guys”. The wrongfully accused? The juvenile delinquents? The small businesses? Porn production companies, of course. What started out as a seemingly legitimate copyright business model snowballed into what Federal Judge Otis D. Wright II called “a porno trolling collective”. Yes, there are court transcripts.   Wolf of Wall Street meets Suits meets adult film stars meets iconic court transcripts. Hear Reb unzip the epic saga of Prenda Law and Ingenuity 13 LLC v. John Doe (2012).  INTRO: 00:00 CASE STARTS: 11:10 *** WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/k4WWI3XE99U Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Sources/Articles/Transcripts/Court Orders Defense attorneys: Prenda litigation is 'unbelievable', 'just epic' - Washington Examiner (Dec. 23, 2012) (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/defense-attorneys-prenda-litigation-is-unbelievable-just-epic) What Prenda Law is facing in Los Angeles - Ken White, Pope Hat (Mar. 6, 2013) (https://www.popehat.com/2013/03/06/what-prenda-law-is-facing-in-los-angeles/) Copyright Troll Case Tossed For 'Fraud On The Court' After Abbott & Costello-Worthy Hearing - Mike Masnick, TechDirt (Dec. 3, 2012) (https://www.techdirt.com/2012/12/03/copyright-troll-case-tossed-fraud-court-after-abbott-costello-worthy-hearing/) John Steele's Property Caretaker Intervenes in Copyright Trolling Case, Alleging Identity Theft - Mike Masnick, TechDirt (Dec. 7, 2012) (https://www.techdirt.com/2012/12/07/john-steeles-property-caretaker-intervenes-copyright-trolling-case-alleging-identity-theft/) Prenda Law's Attorneys Take The Fifth Rather Than Answer Judge Wright's Questions - Ken White, Pope Hat (April 2, 2013) (https://www.popehat.com/2013/04/02/prenda-laws-attorneys-take-the-fifth-rather-than-answer-judge-wrights-questions/) Deep Dive: Prenda Law Is Dead - Ken White, Pope Hat (April 2, 2013) (https://www.techdirt.com/2013/04/02/deep-dive-prenda-law-is-dead/) Judge Orders Prenda Law Group Beamed Out Into Space - Lowering The Bar (May 7, 2013) (https://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/05/judge-orders-prenda-law-group-beamed-out-into-space.html) Judge Wright's Sanctions Order (May 6, 2013), https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PendaSanctionsOrder.pdf 'Look, you may hate me': 90 minutes with John Steele, porn troll - Joe Mullin, ArsTechnica (May 10, 2013) (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/look-you-may-hate-me-90-minutes-with-john-steele-prenda-porn-troll/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices